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Q&A With Jordan Copes

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Jordan Copes
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Joined: Jan 30th, 2008
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In a white room, abandoned only in my head, I'm filled with anxious trepidation. The sounds of machines fill the room, machines and the labored breathing of a man. I raise my hand, point the scalpel towards his shaved scalp, and make an incision. It's so small, yet so important. Sweat begins to form over my forehead, dampening the white uniformed cap I wear. Suddenly, a loud beep surges through the room; it's one long sound, the sign for demise, not in Morse code, bu1, in the code of life and death. The damp area around my forehead becomes an ocean as I work against nature and time to save this man's life. With the help of an ECG machine, his heart is back online, but I'm not finished. The brain aneurysm is still connected to his frontal lobe. I take a deep breath and go back in, push my anxieties aside and once again point my instrument. A lifetime goes by before stitches close the wound I slit open in his head, but he's alive. This is my nightmare and my dream. This is who I will be in 2037, I will be a neurosurgeon, and I will save a life.
I've always been advised to be the best of the best, never settle, to strive for greatness. When I think about my life in thirty years, I see myself as a doctor, not just any doctor, but one of the most important doctors in the business of medicine, a surgeon. My fascination with helping people, my love of sewing, of needles, and of course, my allure with the mind, makes this the perfect job from me. If I could look back, thirty years from now, what would I like to have? In order to be happy, to actually be who I long to be, I have many goals that I need to achieve.
To start with, my need to excel in school relies not only in my academic abilities, but in my diligence, my thirst for erudition, and my need for advancement. These traits, these incessant chips on my shoulder have molded me into the career driven student I am.
If I don't meet certain important marks in my life, than my accomplishments would be worthless. I need to be a college graduate, to graduate in the top 10% of my class as a 2012 alumni from New York University with a degree in Pre-Medical Studies. Following this achievement, I need to be entered into the University of Pennsylvania Medical school where I must graduate in the top 5% of my 2015 class with an offer to spend my residency in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. After building a foundation in this prestigious hospital, I need to be offered a fulltime job. There I'll become a legend, the greatest surgeon the hospital has seen.
In order to find true success, true happiness in my future, certain life changes need to happen also. I don't want to spend my life alone, if by the time I'm 30, I'm not married with children, I'll adopt. I believe that a child can do anything he or she wants as long as they have someone in their comer pushing them to greatness, not allowing them to fail. I believe I can be that person, that I can be that supportive mother. So, by 2020 when I'm 30 years old, I need to have either a child of my own, or have adopted a child. This child would have the privilege to go to any school, regardless of cost due to my high paying job as chief resident of surgery at University of Pennsylvania hospital.
All of my goals are pointed in the direction of that little white room. In thirty years, I need to be in that room, I need to be that doctor, to be saving that life. True success to me is doing a job that I feel important in and what's more important than a doctor? Neurosurgery for me is in the pathway to happiness and success. Without the stress, and the glistening of nervous sweat against my white uniformed cap, I will not have achieved the life I set out for myself. I refuse to be disappointed in thirty years. I want to look back and know that the man I'm cutting open is being helped. That he's being treated by a graduate of both the New York University, and of the University of
Pennsylvania. Without these achievements in my life, without my sharp knowledge of the human brain, I won't be a success; I'll be a failure to my determination and I would be abandoning something that has been important to me since I was a child. In thirty years, I must ID be a Neurosurgeon, and in thirty years, I will be.
My Interview Question
Would you rather have a conversation with a smart person or a funny person?
Current Whereabouts:
Philly!!
Life & Professional Aspirations:
To publish a major novel and to become a neurosurgeon
Education   (request update)
Howard University class of 2012
Undergrad Major:
High School: Prep Charter HS in Philadelphia, PA class of 2008
 
Activities & Accomplishments:
Drama Club; Poetry slam; Newspaper, Magazine
Best Memories:
Receving an award for the highest PSSA Reading score in my school
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Guestbook Comments
showin some Philly love...see u at Howard
Tagged by Ammina Reed on 05/30/2008  
what it do
Tagged by Darrius James on 01/30/2008  
thanx for the note, hopefully yoou're dreams will come tru
Tagged by Jordan Copes on 01/30/2008  
Whats going on Ma? Welcome!!! Stay True.
Tagged by Kendrick Thomas on 01/30/2008  
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