Harvard was hard. I showed up in Harvard and I just felt like a 1. My one skill set of being smart, I wasn't smart there anymore, I didn't 2All the kids were saying the right same things, stressing the same way, saying words I didn't 3. I felt like, "Oh my gosh!I don't belong here. "I actually 4 my transfer paperwork(转学文件)to leave. It was so hard. And so I was ready to leave.
While I was still there, I thought I5as well do something with my time here. I decided to volunteer and I worked at a low-income 6project right next door to where l grew up. There I met a little girl, 10 years old. She and her brother were both in the after-school program. And she was one week7from the after-school program. Her school counselor came to the program looking for her. I said, "I haven't seen her8I'll help you look. "And I just walked out to the playground in the housing project and I found her. I was kind of upset when I found her. But then, when she started talking, I saw that her two front teeth were broken. I was 9 . I thought, "What happened?Did I do something wrong?Did I10something that led her to actually get hurt?"If not, how could I have done my 11 to prevent this?
I was more than just angry with the set of circumstances that led her to get hurt. That was when I realized that just how 12 . I was and that other kids weren't going to have those opportunities. I needed to stay at Harvard and13 so that I could be part of unlocking those doors for 14. And I still remember that moment with anger and 15 to fight so that other kids aren't like that or aren't in that situation. That experience forced me to think. I got to think16 . I need more skills. I need more 17 to be able to solve this. And so, when I was 20 years old and a top-A Harvard student, I 18medical school.
Since then, I have always kept it in mind that with great powers comes great 19and determined never to flinch(退缩)20challenges I may face.