目前，我正在UPMC完成为期一年的骨科研究奖学金，并将于明年7月开始第四年的医学院培训。

这有点讽刺，因为我以前很讨厌上学。过去:二年级时，当我想参加天才班的考试时，我的父母为我感到骄傲。他们不知道是因为一个可爱的女孩。令人惊讶的是，我做得很好，并获准进入这个未知的学术世界。但就像蝉的大出现一样，我在接下来的13-17年里不会再投入自己。哈哈我一直对解谜、游戏和摆弄工具很感兴趣。自然，我对科学的兴趣达到了顶峰，足以激发我的学术潜力。我现在意识到，是僵化的、非个性化的教育结构让我觉得自己被剥夺了学习的权利(至少在正式意义上)。从大学一年级到大二，我所付出的努力只够通过我的课程。 However, my love for problem solving and logistics allowed me to excel in subjects involving objective learning and assessment (math, science, etc.); that is, when I showed up to class. My greatest achievement in my early education was having earned 64 referrals to the dean in one semester in seventh grade. I failed 5 classes in my sophomore year of high school because I simply did not show up. There were many moments in which my ability to graduate on time was highly uncertain. Athletics eventually afforded me admission to college, where I played football for the University of Utah. However, a lifetime of non-existent academic work ethic culminated with dropping out from my university after two years with a 1.9 gpa. I had hoped for a future NFL career, but once again academics got in the way of my happiness. After dropping out and returning home, I soon learned the value of education while bouncing between jobs over the next 2 years. I decided to finish my degree, taking one class at a time at a community college. I had to learn how to study from scratch since I had never done so before. It was tough, but I developed strategies to simplify the material for understanding rather than memorization. Soon thereafter, I began tutoring classmates before exams, helping them understand concepts they had previously struggled with. Eventually, I enrolled into a 4-year university in hopes of pursuing my newly acquired interest in academics and medicine. Desperation revealed my passion. My passion nurtured discipline. By the time I completed my coursework at ACU, I had tutored a multitude of subjects, graduated magna cum laude with university honors, earning a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry. The only difference between me then and me now is knowing my passions and desires in life and being aware that one's experience with education, like anything else, is completely dependent upon the exposures and teachers. I teach for true knowledge and hope my story inspires others to learn without limits.