My life changed forever at a tender age of 11. I remember spending countless afternoons, evenings, and nights pacing the halls of the North Shore University Hospital in New York, periodically checking in on my mom. As I paced the halls, I would pray for my mom to pull through. However, this was not meant to be. On the morning of Aug 1, 1994, I awoke to my father picking me up in his arms, with tears streaming down his face, and cries of sadness coming from his heart. Early that morning, my mother died from a four-year battle with breast cancer. A family's dream was shattered and I became somewhat different from other kids in my class. In a short time I started to think like a grown up. Now, at an early age, career goals became extremely important to me.
I vividly remember the day after the cremation of my mother. I was sitting alone in the basement, staring at my empty reflection in the TV. C
radioisotopes in patients undergoing treatment for thyroid carcinoma. Although I had no direct contact with the patients, I tried to put a face on each patient's chart during handling. I would become very excited when I was working with a thin chart, an indication that the patient had very few tests done. On the other hand, thick charts, which signify a battery of test procedures and a long history of illness, generally depressed me. Overall, this was an extraordinary experience in the sense that I got a chance to see firsthand how a major department in a hospital functions.
Last summer, I fulfilled a personal goal of completing a substantial research project in the area of biomedical science and submitting it to a major national science competition. I was accepted as a "High School Summer Research Trainee" at the University of Connecticut Health Center at Farmington. I spent the entire summer of 2000 working on a research project in
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