College Admissions Essay: What Makes A Good Pharmacist

Since birth, I was ill so often that I could hardly go a week without catching something. Thankfully, my illnesses were mostly colds; my weak immune system couldn’t fight them off. My grandparents tried many means to make me stronger: Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, vitamins, exposure to the sunshine, etc. Nothing worked. Each time I got sick, I had to take medications because my body could barely recover by itself. I could not pronounce the names of those drugs, but I wondered how they worked inside my body and how those small white pills could kill the “bugs” that made me sick. That curiosity heightened my interest in pharmacy. According to a Chinese proverb, “Prolonged illness makes a patient a good doctor.” In my case, I hope my illnesses will make me a good pharmacist. When I grew a bit older, I started to know more medications, including their functions, dosages, precautions, and side effects. What I went through during childhood has shaped my dream by …show more content…
I took the AP classes required for pharmacy schools and then attended one of the best pharmacy schools in the nation. After taking two years of pre-pharmacy, I am even more certain that pharmacy is the right career for me. I enjoyed learning about how drugs have different effects on our system; it’s amazing how one part of our body communicates and collaborates with another and how microorganisms interact with us. In Pharmacy Orientation I, speakers from different types of pharmacies spoke to the class about what the profession really entails. I started to love pharmacy even more, though it seemed quite different than what I expected. Because of love to pharmacy, I challenged myself by applying to become new students team leaders in my college, and even volunteer in Indonesia all alone. I turned all of my passion toward pharmacy to hard works, just to achieve the intermediate step to pursue my dream – getting into Pharm.D.