Garth Pais

Surprises, research, medicine, improvement, fulfillment

I really enjoy the opportunity to take unique seminars, since I really like learning about stuff that doesn't have to do with regular gen-eds that students get bored of easily; I also personally have a lot of opportunities through UHP to advance my career, like through researching.

With your experiences, try to balance taking risks with an equal amount of familiar hobbies and passions

I think that honestly my favorite honors experience was the basic English seminar, because I really enjoyed getting to know my classmates over the semester and my professor was great, I credit her with completely reinventing my writing and helping me learn to write personal essays which still maintain a narrative flow (which in my opinion is pretty important for post-grad applications and stuff!)

I plan on doing another honors seminar next semester, although I'm not sure whether I want to do a study tour or not. I also think that UHP has helped me on my way to becoming a physician by allowing me to still keep my non-medical passions up here in college with me.