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How I got into science

I don’t know that I could really pinpoint a time when I suddenly became interested in science. As someone who is never satisfied with a general answer and is constantly asking questions it was just a natural direction to take. If someone were able to sum up my childhood, it would seem inevitable that I would end up in a career in psychology. My parents called me the “mini therapist” because of my knack for communicating with people and giving advice at a young age. By chance, I had a lot of exposure to mental disorders which sparked my interest in human behavior and cognition. So after taking an introductory psychology course my freshman year of highschool, I was hooked- my path seemed pretty much set.

Towards the end of high school I became a little obsessed with one topic from class on mirror neurons. Well, really obsessed. Like I wrote multiple essays on the connection with empathy, and would talk about it to anyone who would listen obsessed. It was maybe covered for a few minutes, but this uncanny ability of the brain to respond with the same neurons both when observing an act and performing it fascinated me. I had endless questions (and still do). Science to me has always been about the unknown, slowly piecing together what we don’t understand. And with the brain as a focus, there is so much unknown. The excitement of learning about the brain, about all of these unanswered questions, is really what drew me to neuroscience in particular.

So, having a few classes worth of understanding, and a ton of fascination I applied to BU as a neuroscience major. And after three semesters I can happily say that excitement is still going strong, and I have even more questions.