I believe I have a personal responsibility to have a positive influence on society and I’ve tried to achieve this goal by choosing to be a doctor and a scientist. I have ________ principles that guide my life. I think about them every day and have ________ them all my professional life.

First, I am always hungry for ________ I seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a(n) ________ journal, from taking care of a ________. Because of this, I ________ get bored. I have accepted that I will never know or understand as much as I want.

Second, I believe in working for excellence. I am ________ about the big and small things! I do not ________ for this. This is not anxiety without a ________. This anxiety creates a ________ tension that drives me to reach my limited potential. This has made me a ________ doctor and scientist. Without this tension, I wouldn’t be as focused. This is what keeps the search for knowledge ________!

Third, I believe that as a doctor my goal is to reduce the ________ of humankind. When I chose to ________ AIDS in the 1980s, many of my colleagues thought I was misguided to focus all of my attention on what was ________ considered “just a gay man’s disease”. But I knew deep down that this was going to become a public health ________. Therefore, I have spent all of my professional ________ in AIDS research, care of AIDS patients and public health policy.

I believe that I must ________ seek and learn, accept ________ short of excellence if I want to put this terrible disease under ________.

When I was in college, I got an internship（实习职位）at Marie Claire in New York. I moved to the city by myself and made some ________ by searching for "What to do by yourself in New York for a whole ________". When I was ready, I went to intern under a(n) ________ called Elana Zajdman. The other workmates told me on the first day that she might be ________ of you or disliked you because she was a hard one to ________ . So naturally, I took on the ________ of gating her to like me for the summer. But it ________ back more than I thought.

Elana took me under her wing and gave me more ________ than I sometimes knew what I had to do with. She ________ for me to do everything as she was out of the ________ . For example, I had to ________ her to attend her market appointments, do her scheduling and assist in cover shoots. The rush I experienced that summer is ________ . After I experienced it, I would never forget it and I ________ knew about editing work, whether print or digital.

My main tip is to intern at as many ________ places as possible. You often don't know what you want until you ________ different lifestyles and cultures in different places. An internship is a great ________ way to test out any job you're interested in. I also ________ you to go into any field to be as resourceful as possible. You will be ________ at how much you can teach yourself if you take the time to ________ yourself and answer your own questions before ________someone else.

It’s only after three weeks into a new job that I made a serious mistake. My boss called it “extremely embarrassing” in a company-wide e-mail, which he wrote because he felt he needed to explain that what I did was something _______ in the company should ever do.

I wish I could give a good excuse for what I did. At the very least, I wish I could _______ it somehow—_______ it on youth, inexperience or ignorance. Unfortunately, I’m _______, experienced and I know better.

_______ I work with some very kind people. For the past couple of days many of them have taken time to _______ by my desk and offer comfort, encouragement and support. Some have shared with me similar _______ they have made. Evidently I’m not the only “_______” person here.

One of the exchanges I had this week was with Lois, the much-honored, much-respected professional who _______ the desk right next to mine. Lois was completely __________ about her work, and to be honest I was a little __________ about how she would __________ to such an extremely embarrassing incident.

As I expected, Lois mentioned the __________ when she saw me the next day. She mentioned it directly, __________ with empathetic(感同身受的) consideration. She listened to my __________. Just as I was ready to express my regrets, she brought my self-pity to a(an) __________.

“It happened”, she said, “There’s nothing you can do to __________ that. It happened. But it’s over now. It’s __________, It’s in the past. You need to let it go, and move on.” And with that she returned her __________ to her work, as if to say, “We’re done here.” I beat myself up for weeks. At such times I need to remember those __________ words: It’s over. It’s done. Let it go. And mostly, move on.