Jaye Dowling
When she was three Jaye Dowling told her kindergarten teacher she wanted to be a doctor. Her teacher corrected her and said "Don't you mean a nurse?"
Even at age three Jaye was confident enough to reply, "No, I mean doctor, I want to be a doctor!"
And talking to the vivacious and enthusiastic student today there's no doubt that Jaye is well on the way to achieving her childhood dream of becoming a doctor.
"I had the choice of applying to do Medicine or Bachelor of Biomedicine. I choose Biomedicine. So many of the first years who didn't have the choice think I'm crazy! It's a bit scary not being guaranteed a place in medicine but I think it will give me a deeper understanding of the subjects and more breadth overall."
She still plans to apply to do graduate medicine and her dream career is working as a surgeon or in emergency, although she says emergency may not be as exciting as it first seems.
"From what I've seen, during the day in emergency it's broken bones and kids with the flu and at night, its's drunk and silly teenagers!"
Jaye has particularly enjoyed doing molecular and cellular biomedicine and is looking forward to the anatomy subject 'Integrated Human Structure and Function.'
"It'll be exciting to do something different."
Jaye has been taking Psychology as both elective and breadth subjects, and loves the way she gets to look at psychology from both the biological and social perspective.
"Doing breadth subjects like Social and Developmental Psychology will no doubt help me communicate with and understand patients as a doctor, and it helps me now in my job as a nanny."
Jaye moved out of home at the end of first year to live on campus at Ormond College, which she loves.
"It's a diverse mix - Local, rural, interstate and international students means its a really great variety of people."
Jaye says the step up from high school to uni was a big one in terms of workload - she studies around 8 hours a day, including lectures and pracs. She also noticed the difference in the independent style of learning at uni.
Somehow Jaye finds some spare time to tutor high school students, sit on various committees at Ormond and has an idea to use her college and university networks to raise money to help the plight of child prostitutes across the world. She's set a target of $100,000.
"It sounds like a lot of money but just think if every student at the University gave the money they would usually spend on a cup of coffee for just one day that would be $100,000 right there!"
From when she was just a toddler Jaye had her heart set on becoming a doctor and there's no doubt with her smarts, determination and bubbly charm that she will achieve whatever she sets out to do.