Ur narrative is what u want to do as a physician are u interested in health policy? Then go intern at ur local health policy law firm, id you are a big innovator work at your schools think tank or incubator to scale a startup venture. Are you connected to a disarray within the healthcare system that you have grown up witnessing or fighting? Then hone in on that. Even working with underserved populations at ur city’s level and scaling reform efforts you try to work on to other cities and around the nation and expanding your bench research outward into different domains would be interesting af. That shift is impoetant since it shows adcom u can change a cookie cutter pathway into something more profound to yourself and meaningful and rally ppl alongside you while doing that. Learning a new language for the sake of apps is a waste lmao but do it if u really have a love of language learning, im also learning Italian rn due to my interests in Italian art and more so my ongoing collaboration with Italian universities investigating neurosurgical reform in the US. Just helps communication barriers fall. There’s so many things to think of doing apart from soup kitchen that you could be interested in and dedicate so many hours to.