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Mariam Braimah ’13 was in eighth grade when she told her parents she didn’t want to be a doctor...
Braimah’s parents—immigrants from Nigeria—had long wanted their Brooklyn-born daughter to go into medicine. In her parents’ minds, becoming a doctor “is a sure bet at being successful...
...doctor] asked what I was going to do [at Harvard], when I told him economics, he asked why I was leaving medicine to do some ‘funny thing,’” Gimaiyo says...
Braimah says she plans to pursue her passion for architecture, despite her parents’ hopes for her to become a doctor. She says she would like to work in New York to allow her to focus on corporate architecture...
...love my parents, I love the way they raised me, even though they pushed that doctor thing. I understand they really just want the best for their children, and to them a doctor is the best you can be. If they hadn’t pushed me, I wouldn’t be here,” she says. “But if I took Women and Gender Studies, my parents would demolish me,” she adds with a laugh...