Reflective Essay: Does The Walker Choose The Path?

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“Does the walker choose the path, or path the walker?”- Garth Nix, Sabriel
I set forth by choice , yet experiences along the way shaped my trajectory, in ways that I could hardly imagine at the Cme, and deepened my understanding of what it means to walk the path of an aspiring internist. I was raised in Raisinghnagar, a far flung border town in Rajasthan, India; and moved to a boarding school in Delhi at an early age — the first of many relocaCons in what has grown to represent an odyssey in pursuit of beKer educaConal opportuniCes.In High School, I became increasingly aware of the potenCal of an all-encompassing health care system that seeks to use the knowledge being accrued at the cuMng edge of biomedical research, to address concerns at

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