Before high school, I was never the one whose favorite subject was science. I loved to hang out with friends, read, and write; a future in science had never particularly appealed to me. My first week of high school changed that. Through the Science Research Program at my school, I have been able to have the amazing opportunity to work in a cancer research laboratory at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY, one full day a week, as well as 2-3 days after school, and 3-4 weeks during the summer. Before applying to and entering the program, I thought science was simply looking under a microscope at cells, a more complex version of what we did in biology class. Through my experience in the lab, science has become a portal to an unending source of knowledge, one that I know very little of. I’ve come to realize that science, the subject that never interested me, is really so cool.

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