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As a small child, of maybe five or six, I know that my purpose in life was to help people. Whether it was helping an elderly woman fold clothes at the laundry mat or making a handicap person laugh, the satisfaction of knowing I did something to help that person eventually inspired me to pursue medicine. My first taste of public health came from the movie Outbreak (1995) with Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman. Intrigued with their quest to find the unknown and methods of tracking the origin of that virus, I turned my attention to the area of Epidemiology. From then on, when people asked what field of medicine I wanted to go in once I finished school, I enthusiastically told them I was going to become an Epidemiologist and work for the WHO. However, once at Mount Holyoke my interest took a shift, now I was wanted to become a physician with a private practice or work in a clinic. Last summer, once again, I had a shift of interest. However, this was more than a shift, it was a rev