Personal Narrative: Treating Diabetes

Naturally, I’m competitive. So when I walked up to that main lab table, grabbed that clicker and pulled up my powerpoint, I was ready to amaze all eyes that gazed upon the screen including three doctors who were to judge what my partner and I envisioned. Our task was to either cure or treat type one and two diabetes, and with just a week of preparation we came up with a product that monitored sugar, insulin, and blood pressure levels. It was a brilliant idea, completely practical, I was already able to me myself enginerring this product in the future. I knew I had to win this contest. Although,it was clear to me, as I watched my peers present, that my partner and I surely took a risk in treating diabetes because every presentation was a cure, each in a theoretical sense. These ideas were of course genius too, and would …show more content…
But as the assumed leader in that partnership, I could not let defeat and devastation seep into her conscience. Although how could I build her confidence when she was right to feel that way, we had worked so hard at something we felt was so innovative, so next level, so consumer positive that we had no win to show for it. Except we did have something to show for it. We were young innovators! A freshman and a sophomore created biomedical technology within a duration of a week. No we didn’t win, but we learned how to create, how to next time dress, speak, and sell ourselves professionally. We were the only ones to come up with a treatment, yet it’s ok because we thought outside a basic box. To have created a product to help others, while at the same time find a passion for doing so was a success. Bruna we didn’t lose, we won. One day one of us will take our invention past the presentation stage and finally into the research lab, start trails, take risks, and fail again. Yet, it will all be worth it because we can find success in our