Malcolm X once said, "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." As I prepare to enter the adult world, I think of what I can do today to impact tomorrow by pursuing a higher education. This education is important not only to help achieve my desired career path of becoming a Doctor, but also because it will build my expanding knowledge within the study of medicine. What is higher education for me? Higher education will be a journey of gaining experiences in the profession that I love. To love what I learn is the process of not only taking in the knowledge, but also embracing it and creating new knowledge. Creating new paths of learning and experience is my main goal. These goals would not be possible without pursuing higher education. After pursuing a medical degree, I want to specialize in neurosurgery. I want to work with the most important part of the human body, the brain. I want to understand how the brain controls the whole body. Removing a tumor from somebody can make it possible for them to live a normal life again, whereas before they could not. This scholarship will help me pay for college and provide the opportunity to make this goal a reality. This scholarship will place me with like-minded individuals who are working towards the same goal. I am a natural leader, and this scholarship opportunity will allow me to be a leader and compete in a different, more competitive atmosphere. This scholarship provides an opportunity to study in different places around the world, where I will become exposed to new cultures and languages. These new cultures will give me viewpoints that are different from my own. A scholarship will help me pursue a higher education, which is of the upmost importance to me. My circumstance requires me to find supplemental funding to pursue my dream. I come from a low-income single-parent family, and I will be the first generation to go to college. While I understand this is not a unique situation, it is my situation. These circumstances have motivated me to become a better person and leader not only to myself, but also to my surrounding communities. Pursuing a higher education will provide the first step in that goal. John Quincy Adams has an inspirational quote that speaks to me: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” This quote has impacted my thinking because it is how I want others to view me. While it is easy to claim that you are a leader, it is much more difficult to put leadership into practice. I can achieve that leadership as a Doctor. Pursuing higher education is how I plan to make my impact upon this world as a future doctor. With this scholarship, a financial opportunity will be provided to assist with my financial needs and will set me up to become a leader in my future, exciting career.