Personal Narrative: I Am Adriana-Anthropologist

People interact with art, literature, and science to engage with the question ‘who are we as humans?’ Nobody yet has acquired a satisfactory answer. I, too, have not yet answered the question, ‘who am I?’ I do not know if I ever will. I do not know what I want to do with my life, but what I do know that I want help the lives of others as a nurse practitioner. As of today, I am Adriana- Anthropologist, daughter, first generation Latina, and aspiring student of the Hahn School of Nursing. In all honestly, I could not even tell you what I am having for dinner tonight, but I can tell you what I aspire to execute as a nurse. This is where the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, within my alma mater, becomes pertinent to my exploration and crucial to solidifying my path in life.
A long and well documented affair between two disciplines, Medical Anthropology is dedicated to the relationship between human behavior, health, and social life within an anthropological context. Engulfing myself in the focal points of Anthropology, learning about people that lived before our time, trying to understand how they differed from us but yet are so much the same brought me comfort and assurance. Coming from a small immigrant family, my parents could not help me answer who I am or what my path would be, but the breadth of Anthropology helps answer the ‘big questions’ such as who are we? Why are we here? What is our