Why did I purpose this for my junior research project? I asked myself. I could have easily got away with a simple comparison of wood flooring. And yet, I was in a lab, wearing a dirty lab coat and tight nitrile gloves, crying with my hands covered in cold, stincky cow blood.
Why did I choose this? The answer is complicated but it starts when I was only 2 years old. I was not very strong as a baby and hospital is my second home. My mother was very anxious