My father, a notorious my-way-or-the-highway sort of guy, offered to pay for me to take a year-long “sabbatical” instead of going to medical school straight away like he wants.
The idea of traveling just to travel to “find myself” seems like such a white-kid luxury. I’m afraid if I did such a thing, I would just find myself annoying. So I have come to the conclusion that instead of simply traveling for the sake of travel (which I have done a lot in my life with my father being in the military when I was a kid), I want to volunteer abroad in some sort of medical setting. 1) To make myself realize how me not knowing what I want to do and not being motivated is completely and utterly ridiculous in light of the living conditions shared by the greater portion of this Earth’s population, and 2) to make my resume look bomb as helllllll baby. Thus, the following question must be posed …
In what dangerous third-world American-hating country do I want to spend 3-6 months of my time after my May graduation?
