Admissions Essay: To Fly Alone :: Medicine College Admissions Essays

Admissions Essay To Fly Alone   Dr. Johnson ... Dr. Johnson.... As I wearily walked down the artifici wholey lit corridor, I realized it was my fathers doctor being paged. I turned and ran towards the intensive care unit I had odd a few transactions ago. The sterilized odor of the hospital overwhelmed me as I raced through a maze of white walls to confront his death.   After bolting through sober metal doors, I saw doctors and nurses rushing frantically around the room. I could only hear one sound. It filled the air and was audible above all the commotion and the heavy pounding of my heart. The monotonous beep of the monitor meant Daddy was gone forever.   While sitting next to his cold body, I focused at the crimson drops, which varnished the yellow linoleum floor and slowly remembered what a terrible ordeal the past six weeks of hospitalization had been. My Life had changed forever since the day I sped through traffic with my Dad shivering in the back seat next to my worried mother. I was scared to death without even knowing that the killer was Leukemia.   Although the chemotherapy proceeded well, it in stages wore my father away. The first side effects were a loss of appetite accompanied by nausea and vomiting. His hair fell out next, and I could split my Fathers courage was beginning to waver. A look of pain and anguish had replaced his usual smile and with each passing day he looked more like my grandfather. It all seemed like a bad dream.   While packing up hours after he had passed away, I found a note directed towards me. It was in Fathers manus blurry scribbles because the medicine made his hands shake. I sat down and cried because it said in Spanish, My son, it is time for you to fly alone.   It is hard to understand Dads absence, and that he left on my 17th birthday. Although I miss him everyday I am grateful for all the time we spent together and everything my father taught me. He pointed me in the right direction an d made me believe in myself. There is good in this beautiful world, and life will always receive my best effort. I will never be embarrassed by my heritage and will succeed. I know he is proud of me.