Personal Benefits Of Being Bilingual

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When it comes to personal goals, everyone has their own unique set of goals; rather it is for their own personal benefit or for the benefit of others. When it comes to my own personal goals there are several that I want to accomplish, ranging from goals in high school to goals in adulthood. For goals during high school, I would like to improve in my laziness and athletic skills by joining multiple clubs and teams like soccer, volleyball, ultimate frisbee, badminton. I would also like to improve in all of my academic courses however, that will take time and effort because to excel in something you need to understand the topic and practice the topic. There is also the other task of wanting to become more bilingual because I feel that if I know a wide variety of languages it will benefit me when I become a pediatrician. …show more content…
The next set of goals would be the ones for adulthood, my first goal would be to pass the MCAT and get into med school and graduate to become a pediatrician. The reason for this is because I love to work with kids and I love to learn about the human body and medicine so why not do something that is a combination of all three of these

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