Goals Two values that define me the most: Capable and Ambitious. These two goals can help me achieve any of my goals, as the heart and soul are there behind me. I am gifted with the gift of switching paradigms on events, and utilizing it to my advantage. For example, my career goal is to become a pediatric oncologist. Well, I had cancer, and that drives me to do well in a biology class, than say another who has not realized that finding purpose of doing well for the class will result in a kind of sloshy stupor, not retaining the information. These two skills are present in every great leader, as eloquently described by John Kennedy in his case study, Profiles of Courage, depicting American political leaders of yore. Short term: Participate in enriching volunteering experiences, travel, and feel prepared for college. Follow the mantra: "Seek to understand, then to be understood." Mid-range: Begin studying for the MCAT. Continue growing as a person--cope with stress better, be more self-reliant, analyze situations from various perspectives. Grow as a writer. Be more of a positive person. Keep up with singing. Staying in shape. Long term: I see myself in the middle of medical school. By then, I hope to be well cultured and experienced in medicine. Lifetime: I hope to have touched people's lives positively in all spheres of life: my career, personal, and travel/volunteering. I hope to have gotten involved in politics, at least in local government. The most of all, however, I hope to have feel I got the most out of life as I could. I would write things like I hope I wrote a book or something, yet life changes fast, and who knows, maybe my efforts will be focused elsewhere! All I hope for my future self is that I'm doing well. Leadership I think I have most acquired the art of communication. As the President of the Forensics Team, it is important that I am an effective communicator. I am in charge of letting the members know about tournament dates, when to get projects done, educating members about the art of speech, and motivating people. This position has best conditioned me for the plethora of instances I have to use this valuable skill. The most rewarding experience from acquiring this invaluable skill is winning the Presidential Scholarship competition at Eastern Michigan University; as a result, I got a full ride to Eastern Michigan University, valued at about $80,000. In this competition I had to write an essay for an hour-- I chose the prompt discussing what skills an ideal candidate in the presidential election possesses with intermixing case studies in history and current issues. As well, I had a ten minute interview by a panel-- five members of the EMU community. After that, I was invited to Round 2 of the interview and another ten minute interview with five more members of the EMU community. This time, the purpose behind their questions was to get to know me. I had to bring one item of significance and discuss it for five minutes. That itself was a tribulation. I decided to bring my “port” as my item of significance-- the machine that was implanted into my chest that served as a vector for the chemotherapy. Getting so personal with a random group of people requires a lot of skill. I practiced my talk a lot, and I think this experience as a whole made me a better communicator.