Personal Writing: My Father's Desire To Be A Doctor

Part I of Essay
Born in a poor family, my father and several of his brothers were sent to military schools for their education. Interested in medical careers, he studied pharmacy throughout his school years and later got a license as a pharmacist. However, he realized that pharmacy was ....

Part II of Essay
.... for the license. As a result , he passed it. Then he started studying for the second level examination, but it was not as easy as the first one. He had to memorize everything in certain books word-by-word. In fact, it took him eleven years to pass it. In the meantime, he failed the first ten exams with scores like 58.9, 59.2, or even 59.98 when the passing score is 60. Frustrated, he had very bad tempers during that period of time; even his kids were afraid to go near him. At the age of forty-four, he finally passed the examina ....