My parents have often jokingly called me the “Queen of Google.” Any time I ask a question that they can’t answer, I’ll immediately pull out my phone and research it until I find an answer that satisfies me. I love looking into a subject in depth and taking pages of notes on it, then formulating it into a cohesive paper that imparts the knowledge I have collected on it. This has led me to want a career in research; however, it wasn’t until my mother’s diagnosis with cancer that I was able to narrow my focus to the kind of research that I wanted to do. Watching how it has totally changed her life and the hopelessness of knowing that no medication can fully stop it, not even chemotherapy, has led me to an interest in cancer research. No one should
