Finding one’s true passions can be an epiphany, yet for me it was an oddity I strayed away from at first.
As a child, I finger painted to my heart’s content and displayed my artistic expressions on the cream-colored walls of my house. I loved art throughout elementary and middle school, although I never felt that I was very good at it. Even still, it captivated me. Curious to test this inexplicable pull, and at a suggestion from my English teacher Sean Pang, I joined Echoes—my high school’s literary arts magazine. Settling into the poetry section, I felt as if I had found my home.
While working to weave poems into the creative matrix of the magazine, I was intrigued by the opportunity to explore the relationship between sounds, patterns and metaphors much like one using a more measurable, scientific way.
These thoughts were the first kernel of my interests in exploring science and connecting the seemingly unrelated pieces of a puzzle into something more meaningful.
While I never had that “Aha” defining moment, I remember vividly the sheer excitement as I watched a video on the discovery of the double helix in Biology class. My mind …show more content…
A dream came true in the form of an acceptance into the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research, after my junior year. Stepping out of the comfort and familiarity of the literary arts, I transitioned into a new world of complex experimental designs, theories of behavior, data analysis and critical review of scientific literature. Learning to navigate through neuroscience concepts, errors and failed experiments along the way, I was embracing a journey of patience, logic and creativity, the very traits I was developing as a literary
As a child, I finger painted to my heart’s content and displayed my artistic expressions on the cream-colored walls of my house. I loved art throughout elementary and middle school, although I never felt that I was very good at it. Even still, it captivated me. Curious to test this inexplicable pull, and at a suggestion from my English teacher Sean Pang, I joined Echoes—my high school’s literary arts magazine. Settling into the poetry section, I felt as if I had found my home.
While working to weave poems into the creative matrix of the magazine, I was intrigued by the opportunity to explore the relationship between sounds, patterns and metaphors much like one using a more measurable, scientific way.
These thoughts were the first kernel of my interests in exploring science and connecting the seemingly unrelated pieces of a puzzle into something more meaningful.
While I never had that “Aha” defining moment, I remember vividly the sheer excitement as I watched a video on the discovery of the double helix in Biology class. My mind …show more content…
A dream came true in the form of an acceptance into the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research, after my junior year. Stepping out of the comfort and familiarity of the literary arts, I transitioned into a new world of complex experimental designs, theories of behavior, data analysis and critical review of scientific literature. Learning to navigate through neuroscience concepts, errors and failed experiments along the way, I was embracing a journey of patience, logic and creativity, the very traits I was developing as a literary