With dreams, sometimes doesn’t come reality. Obstacles often hinder these plans and challenge their eventual existence. High school is a journey that presents more than its fair share of obstacles to students. In this manner, the last four years have been a journey that has transformed me into an individual completely different than I was as freshman year. Despite how much I have grown and matured in recent years, one thing has not changed about me: I still aspire to become a bilingual pediatrician.While I concede that graduating from medical school someday will be no easy feat, I am ready to take on any challenge that will stand in the way of becoming a doctor.
Every student has inner ‘demons’ that he or she deals with personally. For me, my ‘demons’ like to follow me around all day, especially at school. Anxiety is my ‘demon’-- the monster that likes to accompany me as I sit in class and walk around halls. It is not something I talk about to most individuals. Anxiety scares
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It is a conflict that leaves my brain in a constant and jumbled mess of nervousness. People tell me that I “do it to myself,” that I choose to constantly berate myself over a 99% and not a 100% on tests and homework assignments. Of course, I have good days-- days where I impress myself to become relatively satisfied. With anxiety, comes perfectionism: I am constantly afraid of not living up to unreachable standards I set for myself. Perfectionism has undeniably and simultaneously become my greatest strength and weakness, my greatest source of success and self-destruction. It has morphed into my fuel and passion for academics. My ‘failure’ haunts me as if it is a ghost and follows me until I irrevocably earn another award or ‘good’ grade. Ready to move onto the next step of college, I have finally begun to learn how to fight my ‘monster’ off-- I have finally learned how to deal with my weaknesses and turn them into my greatest strengths and