When I was in the third grade, ten years ago, my mother constantly felt dizzy and tired. She finally sought medical attention and her blood was drawn for testing, but it wasn’t until a week later that she was told that her hemoglobin levels were so low that she had to go to the hospital immediately. After a stressful series of months following some procedures, including many more blood draws from my anemic mother, she recovered and was able to return to her normal activities … I became fascinated with the … optical properties of blood we could leverage to conduct a wider range of tests … My peers have informed me that the humanities are ever popular because “there’s more than one right answer,” so you can never be wrong. By contrast, in math and science classes, there’s always a correct answer and, more often than not, an incorrect answer. In learning about methods of non-invasive blood analysis, I’ve learned that the room for creativity in science is not in the answer itself, but in the method of finding that answer …

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