Ruminate on an interview

My interviewer: "With your application I would've liked to hear a story."

This was his response to my question: "What do you think when you see an application like mine?"

I asked this because he invited me to ask a question and because I knew that my cumlative GPA would come into question. The way the American Medical Application Service calculated it, it didn't look great. And my application is peppered with blemishes: an F in college writing my first semester of community college, another F in Discrete Mathmatics about a year later, transfer to UVM after almost two years as a computer science major at USM. I look as if I am an unpredictable vagrant, close to the truth. But there was a definite upward trend in my grades, and I had performed some compelling research.

Well, I don't have a fuckin' story. I've got lots of little experiences that are remarkable when combined, but when accounted one-by-one would sound sorta pathetic. I've never saved a live. I've never watched a person die. I've never cured anyone. I thought these are things I would do in med school. I'm not a triathlete. I've not written a book, fiction or non-fiction. I'm a worker. I try to be creative. I'm not consistant, but I am diligent. I'm unorganized. I'm emotional, was powering against myself.

But I've got greatness within me, the potential to do that elucive "something great". People always say that to me, that I will do something great. Just cannot leave it up to God or fate or chance. Right? Go to do it myself. Do I want something with my brand on it? This urge to leave something behind after death... it IS our very nature to do just that: leave out genetic material behind. But socital accomplishment, in whatever form, seem to have takin' over for proceation. But, I have been going against the grain since I was born.

Story telling seems exciting. It was the way we(humans) passed history until writing was invented. Some have lost the art.