As an immigrant, I came to the United States looking for an opportunity to reach my goal and my dream of becoming a pharmacist. When I finished high school in Alexandria, Egypt with high grades, my parents decided to move to the United States because of the dangerous political situation that was taking place in Egypt. We moved to New York, where I started searching for colleges and asked my friends about good pharmacy school here. I was thankful when I found out that I could get into LIU’s pre-pharmacy program. I’m still working on my language skills and trying to improve, but at the same time I’m doing what I love to do and what I do best, which is studying and understanding the sciences. I decided to study pharmacy because I love studying science. My first experiences of sharing and learning were in my chemistry classes in Egypt. I developed my strong interest in chemistry and tutored for many classmates. Helping them, I was very satisfied because we had …show more content…
They give me the power to continue my way toward my dreams. Moreover, they taught me a lot of things since I was young, my parents taught me the importance of be self-educated, and they told me to be educated do not mean only get an education from my school classes, but I should learn from every thing around me.. Also, my parents taught me the importance of reading, and this one of the most important sources to be self educated. When I started to read different books at the early age, I found that I can make my world from my readings. I can travel from one country to another, or from an era to different one. I enjoyed it a lot and I learnt many new things from the books. At the same time, I discovered that education is kind of power that I can use it to improve myself and my world to be better. One of the causes that effect on me to chose pharmacy major is that the importance of chemistry in our life, and how the medicines save a lot of people’s