[Applause] I went from going to school 3 days a week in middle school to 5 days a week in high school. Yeah, just like that. A snap of the finger, a flick of the wrist, or whatever other expression you'd like to use.Now, granted, I was still doing work on my off days in middle school. I had as much time as I wanted on Mondays and Fridays to get up, do my homework, and still have plenty of time for myself when I was finished. But on Thursdays after school, I found myself wishing that I could get up the next ...

The first time I fell in love with biology was when my teacher was explaining mitosis to us freshman year of high school. It was the second I looked at the whiteboard and saw the cell splitting into two that the background music started playing. You could see the halo over my head, the gleam in my eyes, everything you would imagine when you pictured love at first sight.Ever since then, I was so fond of biology that studying the subject was just so fun for me. I would have a blast digging into every little b ...