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Summary: Considering Your Lifetime Goals

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Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extracurricular activities might help you achieve your goals.

“How does taking a pill heal the pain in my legs?” 7-year old me thought. “How do the properties of specific drugs determine their function in the body?” 15-year old me thought. I have always been curious about how medicines work, and this curiosity leads me to search up practically everything I want to learn about. In my free time, instead of watching TV or reading mystery stories, I would scroll through “The Pharmaceutical Journal”, reading about studies that intrigue me.

My curiosity about science led to me to choose courses in high school that would help me further my knowledge and interest in …show more content…

I joined Women in STEM, hoping to promote women to go into various STEM fields. I attended weekly meetings for this club where we would conduct science experiments, learn how to code, and compete in engineering competitions. I also joined Biotechnology Club, a club that focuses on relating all theoretical Biology concepts to real-life application in laboratories. I attended weekly meetings for this club as well, learning about controversial topics such as GMO’s and the ethics of genetic engineering. My keen interest in these two clubs became stronger as I soon became Director of Public Relations for Women in STEM and President of Biotechnology Club. My purpose in Women in STEM was to get young women interested in scientific and technological fields, fields that young women often shy away from. My role in Biotechnology Club was to provide students exposure to different kinds of lab work performed by scientists. I found various experiments for club members to do by researching similar experiments that scientists did, but simplifying them for the students. Through my experiences from these two clubs, I furthered my interest in

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