30th October 2014

Who am I?

I am a chemist. A high-school chemist learn how to deal with chemistry problems. My life is all about chemistry, and I devote myself for that.

It is when my teacher ask us about what we want to become in the future. We are in senior high-school and it is obvious that we need to choose the university which we want to get into in future. But nobody in my class dare to say it out loud, we are all fear of something - the risk that we cannot take to avoid regret.

 As I spent one year to discover my true motivation for chemistry, wandering and doing some small stuffs in Vietnamese Institue of Chemistry, now I can be sure of who I want to be in the future. After IChO, after struggles in lab with electrode systems (I used to be the lab assistant in the this project, using electrode systems in determining the composition of raw water), I know I want to be a chemist. 

Then what?

No, my life is so simple. I follow my heart. I am strong with decisions I make, I will never regret, I promise.

One year, it can be long enough for one to discover himself, but it can be short to make a miracle. Before applying for MIT, I cannot imagine that in only 4 months after IChO, I have enough time to finish all the requirements for MIT even though my English skill was relatively poor before. But, it is because MIT is my dream - I even dream of receiving acceptance from MIT, I push myself to the greatness of my tolerance, to do everything in just three months. 

Perhaps, MIT can reject me. But I assuage myself that the fact they do not like me this year does not mean I cannot try next year. I will pursue my dream. I promise. Because my heart says that, MIT is my childhood's dream, I need to accomplish this one to pursue the next one - become a chemist.