Personal Aspirations (college)

Essay Topic: Personal Aspirations My life changed forever at a tender age of 11. I remember spending countless afternoons, evenings, and nights pacing the halls of the North Shore University Hospital in New York, periodically checking in on my mom. As I paced the halls, I would pray for my mom to pull through. However, this was not meant to be. On the morning of Aug 1, 1994, I awoke to my father picking me up in his …

…medicine and made my drive for becoming a doctor and helping people even stronger. Although the untimely passing of my mother was an enormous tragedy, I was able to take out of it the motivation to carry out her dreams, in conjunction with mine, and bring my drive and ambition for becoming a doctor to new heights. I did not become, per say, a new person, but became an inspired, focused, and more driven individual.