beloved yoga

when i was growing up i was mostfascinated by science because it was kind of like magic. you had the dynamicof like me reading the harry potter series while i was learning the basics ofscience and it seemed very similar but then as i went into high school itseemed like a discipline that could really change the world and helphumanity fundamentally. it was a very big

beloved yoga, deal for my family for me to go tocaltech. i was the first person to go to college. we were going through thefinances and it would be very difficult for us to pay for even a year ofschooling. my father took a second job and if worst came to worst i would try to work my way through university. so when i found out that igot into caltech and that a scholarship

would pay for all of my four years i didscream a lot. by the time i told my mom she was crying, she was so happy. i wasreally excited the academics at caltech are, of course,known to be pretty rigorous. around the third week we were getting back all ofour physics quizzes and there was one that i kind of didn't really do too wellon and i started to question whether or not you know science was the right pathfor me and if i was even good at it. i had a ta who happened to be unparalleledin the field his name was dr. frautschi. i am a professor of theoretical physics. we gottogether at his office and he went step by step into the logic of how thequestions were supposed to go and where

my logic differed. he's really able toget into depth into the way a physicist would think. in research you're trying todo something new so of course it isn't going to go the way you expect everytime and if you don't try things that may fail you're never going to make muchof a step forward. dr. frautschi really taught me that the world's greatestscientists don't just know science like magically in their brain but they reallywork towards understanding. i started to see myself more as a scientist and lessas a student. i major in both bioengineering and business economicsand management. it was also participating in researchevery summer - i worked for a nobel

laureate named dr. david baltimore. buti've also done a lot on campus - the manager of the women's basketball teamthe title 9 committee last year has awarded the dean's cup. you actually geta little glass! one of the committees that i was on as a sophomore was toaward the richard p. feynman teaching prize which happened to go to dr. frautschi that year - just saying'... my graduation is coming up. i will bevery very very proud of her. this school has set her up for herfuture. it's just been an amazing amazing amazing ride. now she's making me cry too!i'm going to graduate school to learn more about my field and to be able to domore research and i was awarded marshall

scholarship for postgraduate study inthe u.k. which i'm really excited about. caltech makes a difference i think ineveryone's lives from the big kind of scientific breakthroughs that go on, allthe way down to even fostering you know undergraduates like myself in innovativescience thinking. you're always looking forward to what's next and being able toquestion and wonder about the world.