My Aesthetic Journey

Being raised in a very STEM-centric family, I began to realize the importance of STEM at an early age from spending time with my parents during school breaks. My mother is a professor of electrical engineering at Georgia Tech and my father is a civil engineer who works for Georgia Power. I played around with Scratch and small robots when I was very young, spending a lot of time at Georgia Tech. What we, humans, can create fascinates me. I

As my skate hits the ice, the soft crush of the blade against the ice is the only noise resonating through my brain. I feel a sense of belonging, confidence and freedom to express all the emotions I cannot find any other way to show. It may take a few weeks to learn a basic skill, and maybe even months to learn something complex, but the satisfaction that comes from finally landing something new is like no other. I feel the same satisfaction from the undergraduate biology courses I have taken. There are some concepts that are easy to grasp, while others take a while to learn. Being a part of a lab, I spent many of the first few weeks reading articles and feeling frustrated that I was not actively working on anything. But, once I started to work on experiments, everything I read seemed to come together and put the work into perspective. There are days in my classes when I think this is too difficult for me and do not think it is even possible to learn this much information, but being a part of the lab, I learned to push past the frustration and keep myself determined to keep going. And now, I enjoy the complexity of science, and enjoy figuring out something new, because there is no greater satisfaction.

I have always been interested in science, but the hands on experiments have helped me understand and grasp concepts much easier. I recall my first experiment in first grade when the class was given the lima bean sprout experiment, which required students to plant a bean in a paper cup. The purpose of this experiment was to teach us about photosynthesis and practice our observation skills. I recall how others were fascinated about why their sprout grew. I, on the other hand, was more captivated by why the other sprouts did not grow and the factors, which contributed to that outcome. This basic experiment taught me to look at things through different lenses and not always to the most obvious path.

Growing up, most kids in my generation had Disney Channel or Barbie Dolls. As I was raised with 6 siblings and cousins and having just emigrated from England, my family did not have ample money to expend on cable or fancy toys; subsequently, I resorted to books. As I read more and more, my interests began to broaden, and my keen admiration and curiosity for how and why things work in certain ways progressed. As I grew older, I realized that science could be used to answer many of life’s most complex questions. Once I was accepted early into The University of Georgia, I declared my major as Biology with a pre-medical intent, deciding to further pursue my curiosity about living organisms. I soon realized that I needed to achieve more, and decided

My passion for science became prominent in my freshman year of high school. That year, I was introduced to Pre-AP Biology, and I enjoyed it beyond measure. We learned about living beings and how they worked from the most general of ecosystems they lived in all the way down to the insides of their cells. My teacher made sure to push our limits of what we could learn, and although many people despised it because of this, it helped my knowledge of science grow stronger. One of the most memorable moments from that class was when we dissected a pig. Although most dissections during high school just end with a mangled pig and little to no knowledge from the encounter, we went through each and every organ and made sure we knew the function and relative

As a child, my father, who was a mechanic, often brought home gadgets for us to explore together. We would take things apart and put them back together frequently. My mother references these moments as the source of my love for math and science. Ultimately, participating in extra-curricular technology activities at school solidified my desire to become an engineer. I recognize the value of early exposure to technology related fields to stimulate children’s learning and to show them how these fields can help solve meaningful problems.

Ironically, these interests stemmed from the least scientific place possible--my 4th grade reading test. While taking the test, I came across an article about AIDS, something I had heard about but never tried to understand. As it was an assessment, I was forced to read the intimidating article, only to find it extremely interesting! Immediately after, I wanted to find out more. However, these are not topics generally taught in elementary and middle schools, so I did a lot of self-studying, reading scientific journals--such as AAAS Science--and watching videos online. Then, as an eighth grader, I was given the opportunity to participate in a weeklong bioengineering summer camp at the University of Illinois, which was filled with exciting lectures and activities covering topics ranging from cell culture to imaging techniques; it covered so much that my naive eighth grade self could barely retain all that information. However, in particular, I vividly remember one specific lecture about quantum dots and how they could be the next big frontier of cancer research. Throughout the lecture, the more the professor elaborated on his studies of these nanocrystals, the more giddy I became with questions. How do quantum dots interact only with specific cells? Could quantum dots be used to monitor radiation levels in patients? When the professor finally took questions at the end of his talk, all my curiosities poured out, turning it

In my time at school, I have always had an interest in the subjects of science and literacy. I have spent many an hour reading books, books about fantastic stories and astounding feats of science, and many an hour watching science television programs and movie adaptations of my my favorite novels. One of my my favorite novels, The Disappearing Spoon, by Sam Kean, is a good example of the subjects that fascinate me, for it combines both science and literature perfectly together. At a young age, I often read many books about several factual subjects: rocks and minerals, animals, or ancient history, and many more. Later in life, I developed a taste for science fiction and fantasy, inspiring me to write similar wild and fantastic stories.

My interest in science and my fascination

My personal quest for knowledge has been ongoing since the first day I picked up a science book. I have never been more interested in any subject. It truly spoke to me. At a college level, there is a magnitude of opportunities. I had the opportunity to participate in the Student Dissector program on campus in the Spring of 2015, I visited the Stanford Cadaver Lab with Biology Club this semester, and I traveled to see a talk by the world renowned American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator, Neil deGrasse Tyson.

For as long as I can remember math and science classes fascinated me to no end. Once I started wielding science as a tool to understand life, a whole new world opened up. There is nothing more satisfying

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People say that music has the ability to heal a person mentally and spiritually. But to me, music is much more than just healing. It is a way for me to escape this world called reality and enter a world with in my imagination through the different beats, harmony, and chorus. Only when listening to music, I can truly feel all my emotions with each song having the power to make me remember, from painful to happy memories. As I grew up to be the person I am today, my music journey also grows with me. Looking back at it now, I would never want to change a single thing.

Since I was little, I had love for science. It is the subject that interest me because there’s too many interesting topics. Science make us wonder how things work and how the world was made. In science there 's too many hypotheses that can be made into proved theories. Now that I’m in college, it has only reassured to me that I do love science. I’m taking my Biology courses and they are so intriguing to me. One of my classes that I’m really enjoying right now is Biological evolution.