1.) Before I finish High School, I want to go to Haiti. Not because I particularly enjoy the smell of raw sewage or find piles of trash appealing, but because I want to bring the Good News to Haitian students my own age in the form of games and loud music. My friends who have been to third world countries say they always get more than they give, and maybe selfishly, I want the same to be true for me. I want to be broken in a way that makes me appreciate the things I have and the people I am surrounded by more than when I left.
2.) In college, I want to use my knowledge to actually discover something. I am sick and tired of performing the mundane experiments to gain lab experience only to confirm the conclusions of one thousand other students who have taken the class in previous years. Right now I don't understand enough higher level biology to design my own experiments in the areas that interest me, but by the time I graduate college I will have a first-author paper if it kills me.
3.) This may sound cliche, but I want to save a life before I die. Just one, really. I've got some movie worthy scenarios formulated in my mind where I walk right out of med school and perform surgery that repairs a kid's heart or resuscitate a homeless person on my way to work and still make it on time, but I don't really care how it happens.
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