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I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

I was going to college to be a doctor.

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.

With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.