1. What is the field nearest your home like?
The field nearest my house is at the intersection between Stockbridge and a small street whose name escapes me at the moment. It's not too big, about the size of an elementary school soccer field. The fences guarding my neighbors' backyards also form one border of the rectangular clearing, while statuesque trees line the levy surrounding the other two sides -- inviting giants offering rich, lush shade or menacing wooden sentries bearing gnarled arms, depending on the season. Commonwealth is really quite beautiful like that.
2. How did you get into the professional field you’re in? If you’re not working, what field are you most likely to find yourself in some day?
Now that I am actually in medical school, I can honestly say that my application essay was pure and utter bull. To be quite blunt, I don't find biology exciting, lifelong learning sounds positively dreadful, and I'm not shameless enough to fabricate some falsely altruistic reason for my being here. It is fear of being helpless when someone I care about encounters a medical emergency, the fear of not being able to support the ones I love, the fear of fearing that brought me here. I didn't feel like living the rest of my life in terror, and Medicine is what will help me bury those fears. Well, Medicine, and $150,000 in student loans.
3. What’s the most interesting sight within your current field of vision?
I picked up this neat little bookmark from Singapore last year. It's shiny, delicately crafted, and has a convenient hole in the center so I can use it in binders as well as books.
4. Where were you the last time you fielded questions from several people in turn?
I was here at UTSW, trying to hide the fact that I had to repeat first year from complete strangers.
5. How are you feeling right now?
Stressed because this post took way too long, and I have been informed that we have 145 drugs to learn this block.
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