I really couldn’t tell you what thesis brainstorming is because I wasn’t there Wednesday, but I’m just gonna write some key points that’ll appear in my essay.
My academic goals are to go to medical school and to (maybe) have published research. Career-wise, overall, it would be becoming a surgeon, but being a regular cardiologist would do, I guess.
There are really no doctors in the family, so I guess there was really no push from my family to go into the medical field. I’ve always loved helping people, which my mom has taught me to do, so if anything, that has contributed a lot to my goals.
I was never told what I should be, and was told to just do something that would make me happy, so I guess you can pretty well guess my race and economic status. A lot of my family has gone to college, and some has not, and both sides have all ended up successful. Either way, my family values hard work, so I guess their success comes from that.
The field of surgery (all medicine really) is male-dominated, so any social bump I face will be from that, I assume.
I’m pretty privileged that my gender is the only aspect that may be discriminated against while pursing my career.