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Prograde

Prograde is the relative forward motion through space.

My eighth grade year is when I began deciding my future. I had a life-altering hospital visit. I was diagnosed with an inflammatory bowel disease called Crohn's. Crohn's is an autoimmune disorder, which means my immune system attacks my gastrointestinal tract more than just breaking down foods. It eventually eats away at my intestine until it deteriorates. Sadly, when I first noticed I had Crohn's, it was too late for a portion of my intestine.

From that moment on, my future was all I could think of. I was terrified at what was to come. I would always have to deal with stomach aches and live in constant fear that those stomach aches were more ruptured intestine. I would also have to take medicine every day, twice a day, something I had never had to do. Worst of all, it was forever; Crohn’s has no cure. …show more content…

My first thought was, well if there is no cure, I’m just going to create one. I started doing more research on precisely what disease I had and various things about it. That is when I first began really thinking about who I wanted to become. More specifically, what I wanted to become. At first I decided I wanted to become a biomedical researcher, to discover why people get Crohn's, and to cure my own disease. When I entered high school the next year I began forging my future. I took multiple science classes to learn as much as I could. One problem, I hated biology. As much as I wanted to work on researching and helping others like me with Crohn’s, I knew I couldn't. However, by taking all of the science classes I did, I found a subject I truly loved. That class was physics. I decided that if I was going to have a job for the rest of my life, I needed to not only want to do it, but I needed to enjoy doing it. My physics class is where my second future aspiration

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