College Admissions Essay: A Career In My Life

Believe you can and you are halfway there - Theodore Roosevelt

These are the words that resonate with my life journey and the path ahead as I prepare myself to set foot on the path towards residency. My life's timeline has been a great mix of personal, emotional and intellectual growth. Coming from a rural town in Pakistan with limited educational opportunities, life handed me various challenges and struggles. The key reason I have come this far is my belief to build a door when the opportunity does not knock. With courage and passion, I was able to stretch the limits of what was "possible" and went beyond and it has shaped me as a person that I am today.

Through the beginning of life's convoluted course, I always wondered about the factors that light a human spirit, the core to true happiness and satisfaction. I discovered through numerous rise and falls of life that being selfless and giving is what my heart finds pleasure in. I had this self-realization that the best way to buy peace of mind for me is the currency of kindness and compassion. This inner warmth inclined me towards choosing medicine as a profession as defining medicine for me would be the ability to give, love the humanity and ease the suffering.

During medical school, the pivotal nature of an
I was delighted to observe that this system entails on a religiously patient-centered approach in all aspects of medicine, i.e. upholding medical ethics in patient interactions and finding truly efficacious treatments with minimum adverse effects, balancing risks versus benefits and continuity of care with preventive measures on the top. With the love of medicine in my heart already, this whole process served as an icing on the cake. Therefore, I decided to pursue this challenging yet amazing goal of finding a residency spot in the