My mother was incarcerated when I was in fifth grade. This impacted me because I no longer had a mother in the picture. I had no guidance through school. This was a big change for me because I had always had my mother through everything. I change schools because I moved in with my father. I believe that was the best choice I could make. Watching my parents wasn’t the best example. But it showed me what I shouldn’t do. But it also showed me how I could be better. I think this experience has made me the person I have I am today. Going to school, getting good grades, making new friends, and surrounding myself with good friends. Forming Relationships with teachers and also finding people I could trust. Help me through school. As a child, I just didn’t understand but I believe that now that I do it was for the best. It made me the best that I could be and showed me that I am capable of many things. having people to rely on helping me through a lot. But also being separated from a lot of people made me work harder. I am thankful but I experienced a lot of the things I did because it made me a harder worker, a better friend, and hopefully, it will make me a better parent in the future. After seeing everything that I went through I want to provide the best outcome for my children. And I never want them to grow up without a parent in the picture. I am thankful that my sister was there with me And she understood what was happening because many children wouldn’t. A lot happened to me as a young child but I wouldn’t change anything because it changed me.

Going through junior and senior year during COVID has impacted so many peoples mental health’s. While there is no doubt that COVID-19 is causing significant stress, we won’t grasp the long-term mental health effects until we conduct future research. At the same time, and because of this pandemic, i see a positive impact on the way we consider mental health and how the healthcare system operates. Removing barriers and improving access to care. Since the COVID pandemic, the mental health field has shifted almost completely to tele-health encounters with visits through video or phone. This shift, together with the response from insurers to expand payment for telehealth have resulted in better integration of care and improved access. Better appreciation for our healthcare workers and their well-being. One of the major positive outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic is the worldwide appreciation for all healthcare workers who continue to place themselves in harm’s way to relieve the suffering of others. This makes me more passionate to move forward I’m my medical career. A renewed value of taking care of each other. Even as we have become physically isolated and forced to cancel important celebrations and rites of passage, we also have found new ways to be connected through this shared experience. Communities are reaching out to their elders and other at-risk groups, sharing strategies for staying connected and coping. Maintaining this culture of caring and community moving forward will make us all the more resilient and connected. The COVID pandemic has devastated so many and so much. At the same time, the transformative effect on mental health access, as well as an expanded value placed on our community’s health can have a long-lasting positive effect on our healthcare system, if we chose to learn from this experience.

Overcoming obstacles ​Throughout my life, there have been a rife amount setbacks that I have overcome and I am still working on some. My life has been filled with ups and downs, but I look at them from a positive point of view. I knew that I would have to face many things to get to where I wanted to be. In the past, I had a hard time in school, due to not attending regularly and I fell behind in reading, it was something I constantly struggled with. Each day that I did not attend school was another day full of lessons that I needed to know. I struggled in this area all the way up to high school. I worked to overcome that specific obstacle. I continue to advance in reading each day and push myself to face the challenges that were to come. My whole life I struggled with what people thought. People always had something to say, some of those things were negative and some were positive. This was something that affected the way that I lived my life. I put up a bulwark and did not let anyone in making it hard to accept new people. I also struggled to learn the concept to forgive and forget. In the past four years of being in high school, I have learned to expiate with people even if they had hurt me in the past. I grew up in a very unstable home until I was in the 5th grade and I moved in with my father. I took the blame out on the people I now lived with and many of the people that I have surrounded myself with for what I had gone through. This is something that I continue to struggle with. I have faced many obstacles in my everyday life, these things have shaped me into the person I want to be. The people that have hurt me are the ones who make me want to strive to be the best version of myself. Pursuing my medical career has kept me in the right mindset. And it very pellucid that it makes me feel like I am finally on the right path in life because I know that once I am successful in my career, I will finally be able to say I conquered the biggest challenge in my life. I faced these obstacles and overcame them to be where I am today. I continued to improve because I knew that it would help me in the future. When I am studying medicine, I feel empowered. I believe that people who work in the medical field are heroes. I see myself working towards what I want in life as a big accomplishment and as an outcome of all the setbacks, challenges, and obstacles that I have faced, and it is efficacious. I would not ask for my life to have gone another way because everything leading up to now has gotten me here. This has affected me by making me feel incumbent to achieve my goals and keep striving for everything I want in life. Each obstacle has taught me not to repeat what has happened and to be better for myself.

Overcoming obstacles ​Throughout my life, there have been a rife amount setbacks that I have overcome and I am still working on some. My life has been filled with ups and downs, but I look at them from a positive point of view. I knew that I would have to face many things to get to where I wanted to be. In the past, I had a hard time in school, due to not attending regularly and I fell behind in reading, it was something I constantly struggled with. Each day that I did not attend school was another day full of lessons that I needed to know. I struggled in this area all the way up to high school. I worked to overcome that specific obstacle. I continue to advance in reading each day and push myself to face the challenges that were to come. My whole life I struggled with what people thought. People always had something to say, some of those things were negative and some were positive. This was something that affected the way that I lived my life. I put up a bulwark and did not let anyone in making it hard to accept new people. I also struggled to learn the concept to forgive and forget. In the past four years of being in high school, I have learned to expiate with people even if they had hurt me in the past. I grew up in a very unstable home until I was in the 5th grade and I moved in with my father. I took the blame out on the people I now lived with and many of the people that I have surrounded myself with for what I had gone through. This is something that I continue to struggle with. I have faced many obstacles in my everyday life, these things have shaped me into the person I want to be. The people that have hurt me are the ones who make me want to strive to be the best version of myself. Pursuing my medical career has kept me in the right mindset. And it very pellucid that it makes me feel like I am finally on the right path in life because I know that once I am successful in my career, I will finally be able to say I conquered the biggest challenge in my life. I faced these obstacles and overcame them to be where I am today. I continued to improve because I knew that it would help me in the future. When I am studying medicine, I feel empowered. I believe that people who work in the medical field are heroes. I see myself working towards what I want in life as a big accomplishment and as an outcome of all the setbacks, challenges, and obstacles that I have faced, and it is efficacious. I would not ask for my life to have gone another way because everything leading up to now has gotten me here. This has affected me by making me feel incumbent to achieve my goals and keep striving for everything I want in life. Each obstacle has taught me not to repeat what has happened and to be better for myself.

Overcoming obstacles ​Throughout my life, there have been a rife amount setbacks that I have overcome and I am still working on some. My life has been filled with ups and downs, but I look at them from a positive point of view. I knew that I would have to face many things to get to where I wanted to be. In the past, I had a hard time in school, due to not attending regularly and I fell behind in reading, it was something I constantly struggled with. Each day that I did not attend school was another day full of lessons that I needed to know. I struggled in this area all the way up to high school. I worked to overcome that specific obstacle. I continue to advance in reading each day and push myself to face the challenges that were to come. My whole life I struggled with what people thought. People always had something to say, some of those things were negative and some were positive. This was something that affected the way that I lived my life. I put up a bulwark and did not let anyone in making it hard to accept new people. I also struggled to learn the concept to forgive and forget. In the past four years of being in high school, I have learned to expiate with people even if they had hurt me in the past. I grew up in a very unstable home until I was in the 5th grade and I moved in with my father. I took the blame out on the people I now lived with and many of the people that I have surrounded myself with for what I had gone through. This is something that I continue to struggle with. I have faced many obstacles in my everyday life, these things have shaped me into the person I want to be. The people that have hurt me are the ones who make me want to strive to be the best version of myself. Pursuing my medical career has kept me in the right mindset. And it very pellucid that it makes me feel like I am finally on the right path in life because I know that once I am successful in my career, I will finally be able to say I conquered the biggest challenge in my life. I faced these obstacles and overcame them to be where I am today. I continued to improve because I knew that it would help me in the future. When I am studying medicine, I feel empowered. I believe that people who work in the medical field are heroes. I see myself working towards what I want in life as a big accomplishment and as an outcome of all the setbacks, challenges, and obstacles that I have faced, and it is efficacious. I would not ask for my life to have gone another way because everything leading up to now has gotten me here. This has affected me by making me feel incumbent to achieve my goals and keep striving for everything I want in life. Each obstacle has taught me not to repeat what has happened and to be better for myself.

Overcoming obstacles ​Throughout my life, there have been a rife amount setbacks that I have overcome and I am still working on some. My life has been filled with ups and downs, but I look at them from a positive point of view. I knew that I would have to face many things to get to where I wanted to be. In the past, I had a hard time in school, due to not attending regularly and I fell behind in reading, it was something I constantly struggled with. Each day that I did not attend school was another day full of lessons that I needed to know. I struggled in this area all the way up to high school. I worked to overcome that specific obstacle. I continue to advance in reading each day and push myself to face the challenges that were to come. My whole life I struggled with what people thought. People always had something to say, some of those things were negative and some were positive. This was something that affected the way that I lived my life. I put up a bulwark and did not let anyone in making it hard to accept new people. I also struggled to learn the concept to forgive and forget. In the past four years of being in high school, I have learned to expiate with people even if they had hurt me in the past. I grew up in a very unstable home until I was in the 5th grade and I moved in with my father. I took the blame out on the people I now lived with and many of the people that I have surrounded myself with for what I had gone through. This is something that I continue to struggle with. I have faced many obstacles in my everyday life, these things have shaped me into the person I want to be. The people that have hurt me are the ones who make me want to strive to be the best version of myself. Pursuing my medical career has kept me in the right mindset. And it very pellucid that it makes me feel like I am finally on the right path in life because I know that once I am successful in my career, I will finally be able to say I conquered the biggest challenge in my life. I faced these obstacles and overcame them to be where I am today. I continued to improve because I knew that it would help me in the future. When I am studying medicine, I feel empowered. I believe that people who work in the medical field are heroes. I see myself working towards what I want in life as a big accomplishment and as an outcome of all the setbacks, challenges, and obstacles that I have faced, and it is efficacious. I would not ask for my life to have gone another way because everything leading up to now has gotten me here. This has affected me by making me feel incumbent to achieve my goals and keep striving for everything I want in life. Each obstacle has taught me not to repeat what has happened and to be better for myself.

Overcoming obstacles ​Throughout my life, there have been a rife amount setbacks that I have overcome and I am still working on some. My life has been filled with ups and downs, but I look at them from a positive point of view. I knew that I would have to face many things to get to where I wanted to be. In the past, I had a hard time in school, due to not attending regularly and I fell behind in reading, it was something I constantly struggled with. Each day that I did not attend school was another day full of lessons that I needed to know. I struggled in this area all the way up to high school. I worked to overcome that specific obstacle. I continue to advance in reading each day and push myself to face the challenges that were to come. My whole life I struggled with what people thought. People always had something to say, some of those things were negative and some were positive. This was something that affected the way that I lived my life. I put up a bulwark and did not let anyone in making it hard to accept new people. I also struggled to learn the concept to forgive and forget. In the past four years of being in high school, I have learned to expiate with people even if they had hurt me in the past. I grew up in a very unstable home until I was in the 5th grade and I moved in with my father. I took the blame out on the people I now lived with and many of the people that I have surrounded myself with for what I had gone through. This is something that I continue to struggle with. I have faced many obstacles in my everyday life, these things have shaped me into the person I want to be. The people that have hurt me are the ones who make me want to strive to be the best version of myself. Pursuing my medical career has kept me in the right mindset. And it very pellucid that it makes me feel like I am finally on the right path in life because I know that once I am successful in my career, I will finally be able to say I conquered the biggest challenge in my life. I faced these obstacles and overcame them to be where I am today. I continued to improve because I knew that it would help me in the future. When I am studying medicine, I feel empowered. I believe that people who work in the medical field are heroes. I see myself working towards what I want in life as a big accomplishment and as an outcome of all the setbacks, challenges, and obstacles that I have faced, and it is efficacious. I would not ask for my life to have gone another way because everything leading up to now has gotten me here. This has affected me by making me feel incumbent to achieve my goals and keep striving for everything I want in life. Each obstacle has taught me not to repeat what has happened and to be better for myself.

Overcoming obstacles ​Throughout my life, there have been a rife amount setbacks that I have overcome and I am still working on some. My life has been filled with ups and downs, but I look at them from a positive point of view. I knew that I would have to face many things to get to where I wanted to be. In the past, I had a hard time in school, due to not attending regularly and I fell behind in reading, it was something I constantly struggled with. Each day that I did not attend school was another day full of lessons that I needed to know. I struggled in this area all the way up to high school. I worked to overcome that specific obstacle. I continue to advance in reading each day and push myself to face the challenges that were to come. My whole life I struggled with what people thought. People always had something to say, some of those things were negative and some were positive. This was something that affected the way that I lived my life. I put up a bulwark and did not let anyone in making it hard to accept new people. I also struggled to learn the concept to forgive and forget. In the past four years of being in high school, I have learned to expiate with people even if they had hurt me in the past. I grew up in a very unstable home until I was in the 5th grade and I moved in with my father. I took the blame out on the people I now lived with and many of the people that I have surrounded myself with for what I had gone through. This is something that I continue to struggle with. I have faced many obstacles in my everyday life, these things have shaped me into the person I want to be. The people that have hurt me are the ones who make me want to strive to be the best version of myself. Pursuing my medical career has kept me in the right mindset. And it very pellucid that it makes me feel like I am finally on the right path in life because I know that once I am successful in my career, I will finally be able to say I conquered the biggest challenge in my life. I faced these obstacles and overcame them to be where I am today. I continued to improve because I knew that it would help me in the future. When I am studying medicine, I feel empowered. I believe that people who work in the medical field are heroes. I see myself working towards what I want in life as a big accomplishment and as an outcome of all the setbacks, challenges, and obstacles that I have faced, and it is efficacious. I would not ask for my life to have gone another way because everything leading up to now has gotten me here. This has affected me by making me feel incumbent to achieve my goals and keep striving for everything I want in life. Each obstacle has taught me not to repeat what has happened and to be better for myself.

Overcoming obstacles ​Throughout my life, there have been a rife amount setbacks that I have overcome and I am still working on some. My life has been filled with ups and downs, but I look at them from a positive point of view. I knew that I would have to face many things to get to where I wanted to be. In the past, I had a hard time in school, due to not attending regularly and I fell behind in reading, it was something I constantly struggled with. Each day that I did not attend school was another day full of lessons that I needed to know. I struggled in this area all the way up to high school. I worked to overcome that specific obstacle. I continue to advance in reading each day and push myself to face the challenges that were to come. My whole life I struggled with what people thought. People always had something to say, some of those things were negative and some were positive. This was something that affected the way that I lived my life. I put up a bulwark and did not let anyone in making it hard to accept new people. I also struggled to learn the concept to forgive and forget. In the past four years of being in high school, I have learned to expiate with people even if they had hurt me in the past. I grew up in a very unstable home until I was in the 5th grade and I moved in with my father. I took the blame out on the people I now lived with and many of the people that I have surrounded myself with for what I had gone through. This is something that I continue to struggle with. I have faced many obstacles in my everyday life, these things have shaped me into the person I want to be. The people that have hurt me are the ones who make me want to strive to be the best version of myself. Pursuing my medical career has kept me in the right mindset. And it very pellucid that it makes me feel like I am finally on the right path in life because I know that once I am successful in my career, I will finally be able to say I conquered the biggest challenge in my life. I faced these obstacles and overcame them to be where I am today. I continued to improve because I knew that it would help me in the future. When I am studying medicine, I feel empowered. I believe that people who work in the medical field are heroes. I see myself working towards what I want in life as a big accomplishment and as an outcome of all the setbacks, challenges, and obstacles that I have faced, and it is efficacious. I would not ask for my life to have gone another way because everything leading up to now has gotten me here. This has affected me by making me feel incumbent to achieve my goals and keep striving for everything I want in life. Each obstacle has taught me not to repeat what has happened and to be better for myself.

Overcoming obstacles ​Throughout my life, there have been a rife amount setbacks that I have overcome and I am still working on some. My life has been filled with ups and downs, but I look at them from a positive point of view. I knew that I would have to face many things to get to where I wanted to be. In the past, I had a hard time in school, due to not attending regularly and I fell behind in reading, it was something I constantly struggled with. Each day that I did not attend school was another day full of lessons that I needed to know. I struggled in this area all the way up to high school. I worked to overcome that specific obstacle. I continue to advance in reading each day and push myself to face the challenges that were to come. My whole life I struggled with what people thought. People always had something to say, some of those things were negative and some were positive. This was something that affected the way that I lived my life. I put up a bulwark and did not let anyone in making it hard to accept new people. I also struggled to learn the concept to forgive and forget. In the past four years of being in high school, I have learned to expiate with people even if they had hurt me in the past. I grew up in a very unstable home until I was in the 5th grade and I moved in with my father. I took the blame out on the people I now lived with and many of the people that I have surrounded myself with for what I had gone through. This is something that I continue to struggle with. I have faced many obstacles in my everyday life, these things have shaped me into the person I want to be. The people that have hurt me are the ones who make me want to strive to be the best version of myself. Pursuing my medical career has kept me in the right mindset. And it very pellucid that it makes me feel like I am finally on the right path in life because I know that once I am successful in my career, I will finally be able to say I conquered the biggest challenge in my life. I faced these obstacles and overcame them to be where I am today. I continued to improve because I knew that it would help me in the future. When I am studying medicine, I feel empowered. I believe that people who work in the medical field are heroes. I see myself working towards what I want in life as a big accomplishment and as an outcome of all the setbacks, challenges, and obstacles that I have faced, and it is efficacious. I would not ask for my life to have gone another way because everything leading up to now has gotten me here. This has affected me by making me feel incumbent to achieve my goals and keep striving for everything I want in life. Each obstacle has taught me not to repeat what has happened and to be better for myself.

Overcoming obstacles ​Throughout my life, there have been a rife amount setbacks that I have overcome and I am still working on some. My life has been filled with ups and downs, but I look at them from a positive point of view. I knew that I would have to face many things to get to where I wanted to be. In the past, I had a hard time in school, due to not attending regularly and I fell behind in reading, it was something I constantly struggled with. Each day that I did not attend school was another day full of lessons that I needed to know. I struggled in this area all the way up to high school. I worked to overcome that specific obstacle. I continue to advance in reading each day and push myself to face the challenges that were to come. My whole life I struggled with what people thought. People always had something to say, some of those things were negative and some were positive. This was something that affected the way that I lived my life. I put up a bulwark and did not let anyone in making it hard to accept new people. I also struggled to learn the concept to forgive and forget. In the past four years of being in high school, I have learned to expiate with people even if they had hurt me in the past. I grew up in a very unstable home until I was in the 5th grade and I moved in with my father. I took the blame out on the people I now lived with and many of the people that I have surrounded myself with for what I had gone through. This is something that I continue to struggle with. I have faced many obstacles in my everyday life, these things have shaped me into the person I want to be. The people that have hurt me are the ones who make me want to strive to be the best version of myself. Pursuing my medical career has kept me in the right mindset. And it very pellucid that it makes me feel like I am finally on the right path in life because I know that once I am successful in my career, I will finally be able to say I conquered the biggest challenge in my life. I faced these obstacles and overcame them to be where I am today. I continued to improve because I knew that it would help me in the future. When I am studying medicine, I feel empowered. I believe that people who work in the medical field are heroes. I see myself working towards what I want in life as a big accomplishment and as an outcome of all the setbacks, challenges, and obstacles that I have faced, and it is efficacious. I would not ask for my life to have gone another way because everything leading up to now has gotten me here. This has affected me by making me feel incumbent to achieve my goals and keep striving for everything I want in life. Each obstacle has taught me not to repeat what has happened and to be better for myself.

Overcoming obstacles ​Throughout my life, there have been a rife amount setbacks that I have overcome and I am still working on some. My life has been filled with ups and downs, but I look at them from a positive point of view. I knew that I would have to face many things to get to where I wanted to be. In the past, I had a hard time in school, due to not attending regularly and I fell behind in reading, it was something I constantly struggled with. Each day that I did not attend school was another day full of lessons that I needed to know. I struggled in this area all the way up to high school. I worked to overcome that specific obstacle. I continue to advance in reading each day and push myself to face the challenges that were to come. My whole life I struggled with what people thought. People always had something to say, some of those things were negative and some were positive. This was something that affected the way that I lived my life. I put up a bulwark and did not let anyone in making it hard to accept new people. I also struggled to learn the concept to forgive and forget. In the past four years of being in high school, I have learned to expiate with people even if they had hurt me in the past. I grew up in a very unstable home until I was in the 5th grade and I moved in with my father. I took the blame out on the people I now lived with and many of the people that I have surrounded myself with for what I had gone through. This is something that I continue to struggle with. I have faced many obstacles in my everyday life, these things have shaped me into the person I want to be. The people that have hurt me are the ones who make me want to strive to be the best version of myself. Pursuing my medical career has kept me in the right mindset. And it very pellucid that it makes me feel like I am finally on the right path in life because I know that once I am successful in my career, I will finally be able to say I conquered the biggest challenge in my life. I faced these obstacles and overcame them to be where I am today. I continued to improve because I knew that it would help me in the future. When I am studying medicine, I feel empowered. I believe that people who work in the medical field are heroes. I see myself working towards what I want in life as a big accomplishment and as an outcome of all the setbacks, challenges, and obstacles that I have faced, and it is efficacious. I would not ask for my life to have gone another way because everything leading up to now has gotten me here. This has affected me by making me feel incumbent to achieve my goals and keep striving for everything I want in life. Each obstacle has taught me not to repeat what has happened and to be better for myself.