Four of the five Doan children Thi, Chuong, Huy and Nghi eventually attended Laney College, a community college in Oakland, for two and a half years. They also studied English at an adult school in Oakland. I learned that the secret to being successful and achieving my goals is tenacity and hard work. After taking prerequisite courses for biochemistry at Laney, where Thi and Chuong earned a 3.9 grade-point average, the siblings set their sights on transferring to the University of California. They were accepted at each of the four campuses they applied to, but they collectively decided on Berkeley.
People work really hard here.
And UC Berkeley is not too far from our house. We think it's better to be here. Planning careers in immunology, pharmacy and medicine, the siblings are preparing by studying molecular and cell biology. They especially like their human development and physical chemistry classes. This first semester, all of us feel as if everything is so new.