Who I Am Today Research Paper

Who I am today is different than who I was four years ago and I will constantly change who I am over time. However, there are a few points in my life which played a big whole for creating who I am today. I have had many events that I have experienced where I would mess up and learn from my mistakes. Aside from my own mistakes, I was also able learn from my parent’s past. As I was growing up, my parents would tell me stories about their past life and would give me advice for my present one. Throughout middle school and high school, I found myself in situations similar to my parents and kept all of their advices at the back of my mind. It took me a while, but I began to realize that these advices were the reason I was able to reach my achievements, they influenced my decisions and created who I am today. Since then, I continue to …show more content…
In Vietnam, my dad was studying to become a doctor. He received every award possible at his school, and he was one of the students out of two who passed their tests to get into medical school. Unfortunately, on his second last year of medical school, he was forced to leave for the same reasons as my mom, because of communism. When he arrived in Canada, he had to start over and had no money to continue medical school. Today, my father is not a doctor and ironically, his fellow classmate from medical school is our family’s doctor. My father talked about medicine as if it was a lost dream that he was unable to grasp. His advice to me was always, “with the opportunity you have, strive for the success I failed to have”. My father’s influential past is the reason why I have always worked hard and put my 110% in all my work since I was little. My work habits brought me many awards at my middle school, and making it to the finals for both the science and historica fair. In high school, I take advantage of the education system and make sure I’m finishing all my classes knowing I did my