People and events can impact our lives in profound ways. Tell us about an experiance that significantly affected who you are as a person or student.

The most meaningful event in my life that has taught me a lot happened only a few months ago. This opportunity came when my hockey team was able to go through the fire fighting combat test with the Longmont Fire Department in Longmont, Colorado. The obstacle course consisted of picking up a ladder off of two rings holding it against a wall, and walking backwards past a line and putting the ladder back against the wall. The next part of the excersise was to extend a ladder up a wall and bringing it back down. Then came the part where I would take a fully charged hose and drag it a certain distance and then drag it past the line I first started from. After that we had to pick up two bags and weave through cones and come back, only to pick up a simulated "jaws of life" machine and proceed through the cones once again. Next came the hose and oxygen tank carry. I had to carry a hose up three flights of stairs three different times, and each time I got to the top or bottom I had to drop what I had and pick up a new tank or hose. After the hose and tank carry the next obstacle was to hit a heavy brick past a line on the sled it sat on. The last part of the test was to drag a 180 pound dummy down around a cone and back with time stopping after the feet past the line it started on. This test is to be done in under ten minutes for a pass. After it was all said and done I came out on top with the best time of my whole team, and still beating the ten minute mark with minutes to spare. This experiance taught me a lot about who I am as a person and what I want to do with my life. The first and foremost thing I learned from this is that I want to become a firefighter. I learned how hard it is to be a public servant. I realized that all of the firefighter in the city of Longmont take their job very seriously, and work very hard just by the way the test was, and that I would have to work that hard if not harder to become a firefighter in my lifetime. This experiance is going to be helpful in my life because it is giving me motivation to work hard at everything I am doing. It serves as a reminder of how hard it will be to work and become a firefighter. Finally it is a memory that will remain with me to ensure that I follow my dream and desires to finish college, earn all of the required ceritfications, and finally become a firefighter.