Ghazzal Hammad - Assignment 18

High school:

1) getting good grades

2) getting into good colleges

3) receiving the academy medallion

College:

1) get an internship (maybe at a hospital or research lab)

2) get a job

3) study abroad

Life:

1) travel to different countries

2) go skydiving

3) have a good, stable career that I enjoy

Of these, the most important to me is having a good, stable career that I enjoy. Everything I have done -- sports, extracurriculars, taking advanced classes, spending hours studying -- and everything I will do in undergrad and grad school all lead up to one thing: my career. Being financially stable is important, which is why having a stable job is vital. However, none of this matters if I am not doing something I enjoy. Because my career is something I will have spent my life working towards, I want it to be something that makes me happy, and something that I think is worthwhile. If it is something I am going to spend years doing, I at least want to enjoy it.