to do


  1. be a doctor
  2. get that biochem minor
  3. go on an archaeological dig
  4. learn Spanish
  5. learn French
  6. learn Italian
  7. save a life
  8. scrub in
  9. sew something... or someone?
  10. go to Italy
  11. do it again! 
  12. and again!
  13. okay, just go live in Italy
  14. give a tour of a museum. on accident. which explains why people were following you. (not just the paranoia)
  15. be published in a medical journal
  16. do real person research. not just for a summer, for a year.
  17. be published as a first author
  18. present a poster at a conference
  19. live in a third world country 
  20. gain some perspective
  21. get dengue. wait, that's not good. oh hell, it happened anyway.
  22. work as a doctor in a third world country
  23. gain some perspective
  24. work as a doctor in an inner city in the US
  25. gain some perspective
  26. work as a volunteer in a third world hospital
  27. gain some perspective
  28. be a med student in an inner city in the US
  29. gain some perspective
  30. find out what kind of doctor I want to be
  31. study abroad (FAIL)
  32. okay then, do a rotation abroad
  33. travel. a lot. and go to every single museum before people threaten to sever all ties with you
  34. Greece
  35. Spain
  36. Ireland
  37. Portugal
  38. Perú
  39. MACHU PICCHU
  40. France
  41. stay in a castle!
  42. Switzerland
  43. Germany
  44. Costa Rica
  45. Colombia
  46. be the next Joan Didion. Or Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Or Abraham Verghese. Or Isabel Allende. Or Barbara Kingsolver. Or a mesh of them all.
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