Our trip to UCSD was tiring, but it was also inspiring. To put it simply, there were different parts of me having different reactions. My left brain, metaphorically speaking because we learned in biology that the right and left brain characteristics are subjective, was nervous. It told me when I walked through the lab with all sorts of mice brains being examined for radioactive kisspeptin, when I sat down to study in Geisel library and saw the length of surrounding college students’ material compared to mine, and when I interrogated the HTHCV alumni about the shift from high school to college, that I was not ready. However, my right brain was exhilarated! So many flyers were being pushed into my face, I immediately saw organizations that I wanted to join, and as I looked around, I realized that the work that people were doing, no matter how stressful it may have looked to me, was work that they had signed up for voluntarily. Even though Dr. Kauffman’s microscopes were showing me neurotransmitters that have little to do with the things I hope to study in college, looking through the lense at those little glowing dots was looking at the stars. I could imagine to have been looking at any of the millions of constellations that could be my life in a little over a year. I am both nervous and exhilarated. College is going to be a change. My entire life will have new responsibilities, but also new freedoms. I push myself now to practice taking care of myself as much as I can, but in the back of my mind I feel a sense of calm and assurance that everything will be okay. I know I can keep myself as motivated as the people I witnessed on campus, I trust myself.
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