Expectations. Expectations is the difference in how we see the world. Expecting something as mundane as rain can be just a nuisance to someone walking down the street or seen as a life altering sustenance for a farmers livelihood. As an Indian-American Immigrant, the expectation was always to become a doctor from birth. I’m not kidding as there is video of my grandma picking me up the day I was born and declaring me a doctor. Boxed into this expectation, I struggled to break out and tell my parents during my college career that this is not what I wanted to do with my life.

During my late junior and senior year, I couldn’t muster up the courage to tell my parents and my grades suffered as well. I had some mental struggles and had to take a semester off before I came back and finished school in the summer to graduate. I spent the time working through my issues with my parents in single and group counseling.

While I continue to work on my mental health, I tried to take some more classes but quickly realized that it was not for me to continue medicine. I took some time to figure out what I wanted to do but I knew I did not want to return to school as my I developed a fear for it. I leaned on self-learning and goal setting to meet my expectations rather than return to school for a traditional education. I was able to go to campus interviews and proudly was able to land an entry level job.

The joy I felt sparked that familiar will in me to learn and I became obsessed with learning on the job and attending the small, structured company classes that were provided. Over the course of much self-learning and learning on the job, I regained a lost excitement for learning challenging new material and working towards a goal. It lead to me being promoted and I quickly realized that it was not learning or school that I disliked but it was the expectation that I study medicine.

But for the first time in my life, I now have much higher expectations of myself and much higher goals that I want to achieve. My renewed expectations of myself is what lead me to overcome my fear of academia and apply to masters programs. I hope to use my renewed interest in learning towards being successful in the MIDS program and excelling both yours and mines expectations.

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