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Biology Personal Statement

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Science is a beautiful mixture of things we can see blended with a world that we can’t. This subject has always enamored me, and from the time that I took my first biology class, I knew that this subject was going to frame my career. There was a research opportunity to work alongside a professor once I came to age at my school, and that age couldn’t come soon enough, as I was consumed by the endless possibilities this opportunity had to offer. To me, it seemed as if there was research being done on every subject imaginable, so how was I going to choose research that helped push me in the right direction? The answer came to me at the dinner table one evening. There was a professor working on tissue engineering, along with other biomedical engineering

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