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Seconds after my coach said "Never let the kid in the blue out of your sight," I felt a rush of adrenaline pervade through me. Her words made me not want to disappoint her. I am a quarter of a way through the 5K, yet numbness has already permeated my calves. Passing the guy in the blue is on my checklist for this meet. In order to achieve the goals set by my coach, I need to focus on every step and every breath so that every move is executed perfectly. I end up passing him near the halfway mark. By then the searing pain has welcomed itself into my legs again. As I am rounding off two miles, I gain sight of my coach again. She has more words of encouragement for me: "Don't let the kid in red out of your sight." By now my entire body is aching, but I manage to follow my coach's command. I overcome my opponent in red and actually end up passing numerous racers to finish the 5K. The short-term goals my coach set for me allowed me to hit a personal record during that 5K. I surpassed my past time …show more content…
From the way we interact with each other to the environments we live in. Science has enabled families to keep in contact with each other from overseas and it has expanded the life spans of humans over the past two centuries. But just recently, I witnessed a detrimental lack of scientific impact during a service trip I took to the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas. The community of Gregory Town, a place filled with charismatic, loving people, lacks clean water. Our youth group was warned against drinking the water because of its bacterial inhabitants. We had to ship water in order to drink. Something that needs to be implemented in the Caribbean is a water filtration system that reaches every community on every island. Being interested in the field of software development, I yearn for the opportunity to design the program that operates countless water filtration machines throughout the
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