A kitchen faucet would need to be turned on for at least 45 years to equal the amount of blood pumped by the heart in an average lifetime. Sometimes I found that faucet pumping with additional force as I found my passion for biology and discovered the strength of cultural dialogue. I think getting bacteria to produce a desired protein, like insulin, by transforming cells with recombinant-DNA technology is the closest thing to magic I’ve ever seen. Through different summer...

I would watch, and I would envy. I would look static, uniformly motionless in every part of me but my eyes, yet my thoughts were amid a sphere of emotional turmoil. I would glance over the local school fields with envy each and every morning on the way to my miniature school. I grew up studying in a small charter school with limited resources. Meeting the desires of my parents and fulfilling my dreams of school athletics didn’t fit...

A kitchen faucet would need to be turned on for at least 45 years to equal the amount of blood pumped by the heart in an average lifetime. Sometimes I found that faucet pumping with additional force as I found my passion for biology and discovered the strength of collaboration through cultural dialogue. Over the years, I found myself exploring various academic fields including medicine, genetics, and biotechnology. Throughout different summer programs, I got to separate DNA with gel-electrophoresis, work with...

A kitchen faucet would need to be turned on for at least 45 years to equal the amount of blood pumped by the heart in an average lifetime, and the truth is, all water pipes lead to the same place regardless of where the water came from. As a top school, Northwestern has incredible research opportunities, faculty, sports and anything you would want from a university, but for me, the presence of cultural clubs, like the Interfaith Initiative and the Cross-Cultural...