Humbling Experience Question

[The_JLK]

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"What has been your most humbling experience and how will that experience affect your interactions with your peers and patients?"

So, after college, it was my intention to try to join Navy special operations and become a corpsman (medic). I trained with a group that worked with folks interested in going spec ops for a period of a few months and it was a punch to the gut every day lol. I'm thinking of writing about this experience and the lessons I learned from it for this prompt.

The only issue is that I didn't include the experience in my work/activities section so there's no way to verify it. I didn't include it mostly because I changed my mind over the course of that year and ultimately didn't pursue the career. I also had filled all 15 slots and I had others that I thought contributed more to my story but here we are lol.

Anyway, will it look weird if I spend the entire prompt talking about an experience that is no where to be found in my W/A section?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Go for it.

 

[LunaOri]

Sounds like a very valid answer to the prompt.

 

[LizzyM]

"trained with a group".... were you in the military at the time or was this more like a recreational "boot camp"? Either way, I wouldn't worry about it not being in your W&A section (although if you were in the military that, for sure, should be listed among your 15 activities and elsewhere on your application).

It does sound like just the kind of humbling experience the adcom has in mind when writing that prompt.

 

[The_JLK]

You are overthinking. As I have frequently said, if I ever write an advising book it would be called "The neurotics: advice for the over-thinking, obsessive compulsive, and paranoid premedical student"

Thanks this was very helpful