Sometimes I feel so lost. When I came back from summer and I didn't have exciting adventures of a trip to a far-off country or stories from an internship or pictures of me helping impoverished kids while working in a medical clinic. I feel so inadequate when it comes down to it. That I can't find some burning passion that I would do anything for. That I don't already have 3 terms of research under my belt. That I don't get the grades I work really hard for. That I don't know where I'm going or what I'm doing. College is supposed to be a time that you find yourself, and it feels like everybody is already 10 steps ahead of me on that.

So here's to 2011, the year that I will turn it around, the year that I become more independent and rely on myself more than the presence of others. Here's to the year that I find a research project I'm passionate about and a professor that shares those passions. Here's to the year that I try my hardest in every class, regardless of how much time that will take. Here's to 2011, my year.