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If you could study a subject that you have never had the opportunity to study, what would you choose? Explain your choice, using specific reasons and details.
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I want to be a surgeon and I study medicine at my university. But I often think that if I have much more times, or if I can have two or three bodies, I can do many other things. I mean, I have more dreames than to be a surgeon. In this essay, I want to explain a few of my them.

The most favoralbe subject I want to study is music. When I was a child, I went to a piano lesson once a week. I didn't so interested in playing the piano at that time, so I could not make a sufficient progress. You may think that why am I took the lesson though I didn't like the subject. Did my parents make me to do that? No, they also can not playing the piano or other music instruments. I went to the piano lesson because many of my classmates could play the piano. In the music class, some of my friends played the piano, and I was very impressed by the sounds they made. But since I was a boy, and many of them who could play a piano were girls, I prefered to play a baseball with other boys. So I often escaped from the piano lesson and played baseball with my friends. But I can not still forget the beautiful sounds my friends have played, so I hope I want to practice playing a piano in the future.

I also want to be a pilot. I don't say that I want to be a pilot of a commercial airplane or an air force. I just want to be a pilot of a small airplane. My grandfather is now nearly 80 years old, and he can handle an airplane. He can drive an airplane because he took a lesson during the Second World War. Though he did not fight in the war, he said to me that he must take a lesson to handle an airplane in case of an emergency. So when I was a 5 or 6 years old boy, he often told me about handling an airplane. Since he was a mathematics teacher of a public high school, he did not have much money. But once, he went to go to the United States to make his dream comes true. That is, he went to America to get a pilot licence. But he could not get a licence. Though he could play an airplane enough, he could not pass the test. This is because the lack of his English speaking ability. He can not speak English enough, so he could not have enough communication with the tower of the airport.

I have much more things I want to do in mylife. You may think that, then I should do all of them. I also think that. But at the same time, I want to be a good surgeon. I think there two types of people in the world. One is to be able to do variety of things. We call such people as generalists. The other is not being able to do variety of things, but they can do high quality works in one region. We call such people as specialists. And I want to be a specialist in the future.