Ryan Kwapniowski's FLP Portfolio
The Approach
Like everything else in my life, I have a systematic plan devised in my head on how my future shall play out and leadership is no exception. The first step to achieving my dreams is to continue on with the success of getting my college degree. I have high expectations for myself, ones that can only be achieved through finishing my college career and continuing on to medical school. For my career, my path is to finish up my undergraduate by getting my BS in Emergency Medical Services where I will be a licensed paramedic. I hope then continue on to medical school letting that route take me wherever it chooses. Upon my completion with medical school, internship, and residency, thus finally receiving my M.D. I plan to work as a pediatric trauma physician or a pediatric emergency room doctor. The leadership capabilities connoted to this title is outstanding and I hope to let the career take the lead. One day I aspire to be on the board of the hospital, to be able to lead something that I once and forever will hold so dear would be an accomplishment that I would forever remember. To get to this position, this takes time, experience, knowledge, and the right values. And while I feel as though I already have the correct values, I need to wait until I have more knowledge about the health care system and experience within it to be able to hold a leadership position. For Beth Theta Pi, I plan on continuing to serve on the committee for service and philanthropy. I hope that one day I can run for office and be able to lead that committee down the right path. Lastly, for this program, the Freshman Leadership Program, I hope to eventually be able to apply for an executive position. For me, the hardest thing about FLP is that I never want it to end, so the desire for executive positions are there, the values are there, I just need to apply.
"And in the end, it's is not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
-Abraham Lincoln