This is my mother’s story. My mom immigrated to the United States from China in the late 1980s. When she applied for college was the first year universities were accepting students after a decade of banning higher education during the re-education through labor campaign of the Communist party. Despite having a handicap from surviving polio as an infant, she was accepted into medical school and graduated at the top of her class and immigrated here to complete her Masters degree and medical training. She’s now a practicing anesthesiologist and I am in training to become a surgeon. She is and always will be my inspiration.