As an eighth-grader I remember I was a shy, little kid and I remember seeing all these awesome seniors and high schoolers. I thought, ‘I want to be that.’ I remember I got a green dolphin pin. I still have it on my wall. Eighth-grade me couldn’t have imagined standing here talking to you. It’s amazing how Ocean Lakes has helped me.
In the future I hope to major in biomedical engineering. That’s one of my life goals. As part of my senior project I mentored with one of my, I guess you could say, distant cousins and she told me about the biomedical engineering work she does in her lab in New York City. After that experience in the lab and seeing what she did as a researcher and all that, I said, ‘This is what I need to do. This is what I want to do.’ It really peaked my interest and it’s really what I want to do.
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