What experiences have shaped you as a person?

[dr_dre]

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My top choice would have to be: using 2 months of my summer prior to freshman year to do nothing but work towards recovery from a serious knee injury sustained during training camp. Finally being invited to return to my college soccer team in the fall. In the third game of my first season I blew out my ankle 🙁. However, I recovered to make it back to the NCAA finals and actually was able to play 2 of those games as a freshman. Although we lost in the semis, I remember working soo hard to get there that year, and being there as a rookie made it so special - the excitement of finally being that close to your dreams. Looking back at those days, training 3 hours a day or more, just made me realize even further that you can do anything if you work hard.

What types of experiences medical and non-medical have shaped you as a person?



GO ENGLAND!

 

[Compass]

Mine would be learning how to walk all over again after a car accident when I was 10-11 years old. Hard to get into a car, too. Still have a scar to prove it 😀

 

[Lests55]

Mine would be learning how to walk all over again after a car accident when I was 10-11 years old. Hard to get into a car, too. Still have a scar to prove it 😀

Wow, that's crazy. I was going to be jack@$$ and say birth, but after that I'll shut the hell up.

 

[Mr. Tee]

Going to West Africa and living like they do.

 

[zach1201]

Taking a year off from college to be a 24/7 live-in aide for an Alzheimer's patient.

 

[Compass]

Taking a year off from college to be a 24/7 live-in aide for an Alzheimer's patient.

Real man right here.

 

[lilmissfickle]

My parents' crappy marriage. I don't think I'll be talking about that in my PS, though.

 

[DropkickMurphy]

Seeing my best friend die right in front of me.

 

[lynn623la]

My parents' crappy marriage. I don't think I'll be talking about that in my PS, though.

Yeah I thought it was something that I could add, but then I realize most marriages and families are dysfunctional anyways in America.

 

[WantsThisBad]

Being in and out of the hospital for 5 months with 7 collapsed lungs and eventually lung surgery after 6 years of chronic digestive problems that caused my life to be a living hell...It basically woke me up to the fact that I’m organic, human, and fragile just like everyone else on this earth. It also made me appreciate my life and health a lot more. I realized I was treating my body and mind like a piece of ****, and that winter in the hospital without my life really woke me up to it. I really haven’t been the same since. - Nick