I know exactly where I want to be in ten years, but thinking about how much I have to accomplish and do is very overwhelming. In ten years I hope to be starting my career as a fully licensed doctor. I am interested in the fields of oncology or plastic surgery, but really as long as I find a field that is interesting to me and allows me to help as many people as possible, I’ll be extremely happy. 

My first step is to get accepted into the Medical Scholars program here at UD. This program, once accepted, will give the student automatic entry into Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia. All you have to do is maintain above a 3.5 GPA and obtain a certain score on the MCAT, and you are golden. My next step would then be to kick ass in med school. Once you get to med school the grind doesn’t stop. You are constantly competing to do well on your exams because the higher your test scores the more options you have as to what field you want to enter. Then after med school will come residency. For what I want to do, oncology or plastic surgery, the residency lasts about five years. There is so much to learn in those five years. Finally, after all this is over I will be considered a fully licensed doctor.

So, I have achieved all this and I’m now a doctor… now what? It’s hard to even think this far in advance, but realistically after all this is done I’ll be able to focus on my personal life. I got the hardest chapter of my life done. I’m a doctor and I’m working, hopefully in Delaware or somewhere outside of Philly. I hope to find a beautiful, compassionate, and funny wife who is able to put up with all my bullshit. If and when we have kids, preferably four, I’ll be the first to take maternity leave and take care of the baby. In my free time I hope to coach the kids in soccer, and take them outside and play like I did when I was a kid. I will try and limit the social media and technology usage of my kids because as a child nothing productive comes from the use of these deadly contraptions. 

In these next ten years I have a lot to accomplish, but I believe it will all be worth it. I’m excited for the journey. I believe I will find out a lot about myself, meet amazing people, and learn a lot. I enjoyed this assignment because I haven’t really thought about what I want outside of becoming a doctor, and now after thinking about it I have an idea.