Through Jason's youth, he seemed to have a technical mind since his subject options always leaned more towards math and sciences. However, his life was quickly overrun by sport. He was restless to say the least and quickly figured out the more sports he picked up, the less time he would have to spend in the classroom!
"It's not that I didn't like learning- I just didn't like sitting and listening to someone dribble on in front of a whiteboard about something I wasn't interested in or didn't understand why I was learning it. I'm sure a lot of people can relate and to this day, I still don't always enjoy classroom based education!
But I know it'll get me to my goals."
Sport got Jason hooked on health and learning about the human body and from his experiences from volunteering on ambulances in Israel when he was 18, he's had a underlying passion for medicine and emergency response.
After his gap year, he had the intention of becoming a doctor. He tried to get into the medical programme after his first year at Auckland University...
He didn't make the cut.
So he completed a 4 year Sports and Exercise Science Degree and applied again after sitting the post-grad entry test...
His second application got declined.
"And I'm so glad I did. Because it gave me time to taste life a little and explore other areas: I traveled the world to 20+ countries, ran over 10 large-scale junior sports events for tens of thousands of youth from across NZ and the globe, ran social enterprise events with some of NZ's top business leaders, lived with 12 business minded people who all had their own projects and businesses and joined the army.
Now I have many more areas of interest: economics and finance, business, youth-development, tech, web development & social enterprise to name a few."
5 years later, he applied once more for medical school, and a few months later, he had been accepted.
Through Jason's youth, he seemed to have a technical mind since his subject options always leaned more towards math and sciences. However, his life was quickly overrun by sport. He was restless to say the least and quickly figured out the more sports he picked up, the less time he would have to spend in the classroom!
"It's not that I didn't like learning- I just didn't like sitting and listening to someone dribble on in front of a whiteboard about something I wasn't interested in or didn't understand why I was learning it. I'm sure a lot of people can relate and to this day, I still don't always enjoy classroom based education!
But I know it'll get me to my goals."
Sport got Jason hooked on health and learning about the human body and from his experiences from volunteering on ambulances in Israel when he was 18, he's had a underlying passion for medicine and emergency response.
After his gap year, he had the intention of becoming a doctor. He tried to get into the medical programme after his first year at Auckland University...
He didn't make the cut.
So he completed a 4 year Sports and Exercise Science Degree and applied again after sitting the post-grad entry test...
His second application got declined.
"And I'm so glad I did. Because it gave me time to taste life a little and explore other areas: I traveled the world to 20+ countries, ran over 10 large-scale junior sports events for tens of thousands of youth from across NZ and the globe, ran social enterprise events with some of NZ's top business leaders, lived with 12 business minded people who all had their own projects and businesses and joined the army.
Now I have many more areas of interest: economics and finance, business, youth-development, tech, web development & social enterprise to name a few."
5 years later, he applied once more for medical school, and a few months later, he had been accepted.
