I couldn’t be happier to be graduating with a degree in bioengineering.
I’ve always been interested in biology. I want to go to med school eventually. I’ve loved learning about synthetic biology with Drew Endy, and optogenetics with Karl Deisseroth. As I was deciding on a major, I felt like bioengineering was setting the trend for where biology and the life sciences were going. It’s an innovative major that I know will empower me to do kind of whatever I want in the field.
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