toughguy
Nov 23, 2014
Undergraduate / Meeting James Watson, best day of your life. VTech Supplement [4]
I have improved it a little but it's still over the word limit at 286. Please break this one down.
I was one of the two students from John Champe High School who were selected to attend the Holiday Lectures at Howard Hughes Medical Institute about the Era in Genomics. I was elated as I would get to hear from two of the top scientists in the nation: Christopher Walsh and Charles Sawyers. These lectures were focused on how advances in genomics are helping to get a better understanding of diseases such as cancer and how treatments are rapidly improving. As the 20 Loudoun County students were entering the building on December 6th, 2013, everyone was discussing about rumors on how James Watson, the prominent co-founder of the DNA structure, was going to be speaking lectures. Through the entire day, I was only focused on when James Watson would be speaking; we later learned that students would get a chance to have a Q&A with him for about 45 minutes. When the time came, I finally got to ask my question, "What is some advice that you would give to high school students?" He gave a very cliche answer, but an answer that has stuck to me even though I have probably heard it a numerous amount of times; he said to "Never give up. Always keep trying and you will get what you want." Words coming from a Nobel Prize Winner mean something different and they're worth a lot more. Later, I even got a chance to personally talk to him for about a minute and get his autobiography signed by him. It was an overwhelming experience as I was talking to someone we had only learned about in biology books and profoundly looked up to for his work in the Human Genome Project.
I have improved it a little but it's still over the word limit at 286. Please break this one down.
I was one of the two students from John Champe High School who were selected to attend the Holiday Lectures at Howard Hughes Medical Institute about the Era in Genomics. I was elated as I would get to hear from two of the top scientists in the nation: Christopher Walsh and Charles Sawyers. These lectures were focused on how advances in genomics are helping to get a better understanding of diseases such as cancer and how treatments are rapidly improving. As the 20 Loudoun County students were entering the building on December 6th, 2013, everyone was discussing about rumors on how James Watson, the prominent co-founder of the DNA structure, was going to be speaking lectures. Through the entire day, I was only focused on when James Watson would be speaking; we later learned that students would get a chance to have a Q&A with him for about 45 minutes. When the time came, I finally got to ask my question, "What is some advice that you would give to high school students?" He gave a very cliche answer, but an answer that has stuck to me even though I have probably heard it a numerous amount of times; he said to "Never give up. Always keep trying and you will get what you want." Words coming from a Nobel Prize Winner mean something different and they're worth a lot more. Later, I even got a chance to personally talk to him for about a minute and get his autobiography signed by him. It was an overwhelming experience as I was talking to someone we had only learned about in biology books and profoundly looked up to for his work in the Human Genome Project.
