English 107 Science blog

My interest in Science all dates back to before I can really remember. Since I was about 2 years old, whenever I saw a jeep, I would start kicking in my car seat and freaking out. Eventually I became old enough to play with tin foil without constantly trying to eat it. I would do things like wrap chopsticks in an attempt to make airplanes. Eventually I became an unhealthy asthmatic at about the age of 5. With poor breathing came my nebulizer, which for those of you who dont know, is a device that vaporizes medicine allowing you to inhale it which clears up your bronchial tubes. I learned to like my nebulizer, not only because it helped me breath, but because of how a little white machine was capable of making me feel better. As I got older I became more and more interested in medicine, through high school I took human anatomy classes and decided I wanted to become a doctor. After applying to colleges, about half way through my senior year, I was accepted to the Loyola University of Chicago for their Biology program. I liked it at first, but it wasn't enough, so I joined the biophysics and preengineering program. The preengineering program was a bit too sketchy for me because it did not guarantee a degree in engineering, so once fall of 2009 rolled around I applied for transfer to the University of Miami's engineering program and was accepted. Here I am today majoring in Biomedical engineering with a mechanical concentration. I think it's pretty obvious as to why I chose that curriculum. Since I could count my age on my one hand I was already tinkering with tinfoil trying to make airplanes or fake jet packs with cereal boxes and I would pretend to fly around the room, then came my interest in medicine. The combination of those two things early in my life I think molded together engineering and medicine and brought me to Biomedical engineering which is where I am today. Hopefully I will be successful in my endeavors. I am not 100% sure in what specific field I want to work, however, I know I want to work with the nervous system, because it is unexplored and I believe still has a lot to offer. With technology growing, I think big leaps will be made with patching detached nerves and maybe offering the blind their site back, or the paralyzed their mobility. I guess we'll just see where the road takes me.