The left hemisphere and right …

The left hemisphere and right hemisphere of my brain are constantly in a tussle for dominance. Whenever reason and logic successfully persuade me to focus on exploring the profundity of, say, Gauss theorem or Luria–Delbrück experiment, sensibility and creativity would soon manifest their power to regain control, requesting me to act on intuition, for example, improvising a calligraphy work, or producing a drama of William Shakespeare.

Worse still, there seems no ending to the battle, as recently it has been respectively strengthened by the urge to learn MATLAB scripting and curiosity for a cappella singing.Dedicated to cultivating “Scholars, Creators and Makers” and with great strength in neuroscience study, CMU initially attracted me as the forefront to study the biological base for my brain dissonance, and find out pragmatic ways to terminate it. Specifically, I plan to obtain a solid base for upper-level life science study: from fundamental understanding of areas such as gene expression and regulation, and molecular mechanism of intercellular transmission, to hands-on programming, statistical and lab skills to help test, for example, how specific genetic markers play in predisposition to certain diseases.

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Therefore, with well-structured courses from Genetics, Experimental Biology, Organic Chemistry to Intermediate Programming, the curriculum set for Biological Sciences majors makes a good fit for my academic craving. Building upon such a foundation, I hope to actively participate in the abundant research opportunities, from volunteer ones to credit-earning ones, work closely with top-notch professors on world-changing researches, and most importantly, develop an intimate understanding of how biological knowledge is actually discovered and applied. For example, as my brain dissonance is constantly changing in response to my everyday experiences, I’m interested in participating in ongoing researches at the Barth Lab to discover the underpinning mechanisms. Plus supportive experimental facilities and intense academic atmosphere, I’ll delve into intricacy involved in the causes of incurable diseases and effective drug and biotechnology development, facilitate the progress of medical research and transform healthcare for the better.

While investigating CMU for more possibilities to satisfy my curiosity for brain dissonance, I’ve also caught a glimpse of its encouragement for interdisciplinary study, and translation of integrated knowledge into social-minded action, as can be evidenced by the Global Water Brigades program. This further inspired me to rethink about the duality, and even multi-facets of my brain frenzy. Just as Steve Jobs once incorporated his calligraphy study into the flagship development of multiple typefaces and proportionally spaced fonts in Mac, I believe somewhere I could convert the multiple factors involved in my brain frenzy into advantages to achieve greatness in a similar way. At CMU, I could be fully attired at The Jubilee Conference to communicate with like-minded collegiate students how my biological research could potentially change the way diseases will be diagnosed and treated, while wildly yelling out for the victory of the women volleyball team in a spring tournament as an enthusiastic fan; I could temporarily liberate schoolmates from endless coding by teaching them how to achieve equanimity and endurance to excel with calligraphy writing through TEDxCMU, while lightheartedly enjoying a concert offered at AB Coffeehouse… With the education at CMU, I aspire to step into more unknown arenas to satisfy my brain frenzy, but only add to the establishment of an unconventional wisdom, which’ll continually help me stay true to myself while enacting transforming changes for advancement in biological and medical sciences!