This is a draft prepared for the interview in 2 days, and I'm gonna briefly talk about myself.
Alright, time to start....(been distracted by violin)
Serious. This is the one word I am evaluating or use to describe myself. I take things seriously. When I am learning some new knowledge, I am eager to understand the basic principle or factors that lead to the phenomena. Especially when studying biology, for example, all of us know that it is enzymes that catalyze the chemical reactions in our cells, what I am particularly interested in is why and how the enzymes functions to achieve accelerating the reactions by, mostly, by thousands of folds, increase reaction rate compared with no catalysts. This should be one of the reasons that I am so fascinated by biology. The more I learn, the more mystery I find, and the more I am eager to study and to understand the mechanisms.
I have been very interested in how protein structures correlate with their functions and wanting to take advantages of these characters to study diseases and design drugs and apply to specifically targeted therapy.
I understand it must be a very hard work. Since I was once doing a project trying to build a computational model about the cell signalings in B cells. Through that project, I was so amazed about how many factors involve a single pathway and the "accidents" could happen.
One thing that one day I want to try is to make use of cell to produce proteins.
**I understand that I am not very strong in chemistry. and I am choosing biochemistry in part to force myself to study biochem well. And, yes, I plan to put more effort in this part during my graduate study. With solid biochem background will definitely help me with my future study and understanding the basic mechanisms in cell reactions as well as drug desgin.
I understand I am at the very begining of my career and there is a lot for me to learn. So what I want to learn during my graduate study is some basic techniques to study the protein and at the same time I could apply the knowledge and skills to some real world issues.
For one reason that I like to stay here is that all of the people I met and worked with are so nice and kind, which make me relaxed and feel good about myself. I still remember once when I turned to a post-doc in the lab. I really didn't count too much on him because he was leaving and his friend was waiting. Yet, he spent almost half an hour to help me figure out what was wrong with the model I was building.
Honestly, I worked or volunteered in a few labs now and I realized that it is very important to sit down in one place and learn something useful.
[Here could talk about how the lab projects match my study interests]
I was trying to apply for graduate school the year before last year because I could graudate last May. While I was reading the requirments and I realized I was not quite ready for graduate study. So I stopped applying and plan to get a minor. Duing the additional year, I made my acquaintance with bioinformatics, and tool some really great courses like immunology, and advanced genetics and had some different and new ideas about biology and about how I am going to persuit my goal in the future.
[That's it for today]
[To be continued...]
Alright, time to start....(been distracted by violin)
Serious. This is the one word I am evaluating or use to describe myself. I take things seriously. When I am learning some new knowledge, I am eager to understand the basic principle or factors that lead to the phenomena. Especially when studying biology, for example, all of us know that it is enzymes that catalyze the chemical reactions in our cells, what I am particularly interested in is why and how the enzymes functions to achieve accelerating the reactions by, mostly, by thousands of folds, increase reaction rate compared with no catalysts. This should be one of the reasons that I am so fascinated by biology. The more I learn, the more mystery I find, and the more I am eager to study and to understand the mechanisms.
I have been very interested in how protein structures correlate with their functions and wanting to take advantages of these characters to study diseases and design drugs and apply to specifically targeted therapy.
I understand it must be a very hard work. Since I was once doing a project trying to build a computational model about the cell signalings in B cells. Through that project, I was so amazed about how many factors involve a single pathway and the "accidents" could happen.
One thing that one day I want to try is to make use of cell to produce proteins.
**I understand that I am not very strong in chemistry. and I am choosing biochemistry in part to force myself to study biochem well. And, yes, I plan to put more effort in this part during my graduate study. With solid biochem background will definitely help me with my future study and understanding the basic mechanisms in cell reactions as well as drug desgin.
I understand I am at the very begining of my career and there is a lot for me to learn. So what I want to learn during my graduate study is some basic techniques to study the protein and at the same time I could apply the knowledge and skills to some real world issues.
For one reason that I like to stay here is that all of the people I met and worked with are so nice and kind, which make me relaxed and feel good about myself. I still remember once when I turned to a post-doc in the lab. I really didn't count too much on him because he was leaving and his friend was waiting. Yet, he spent almost half an hour to help me figure out what was wrong with the model I was building.
Honestly, I worked or volunteered in a few labs now and I realized that it is very important to sit down in one place and learn something useful.
[Here could talk about how the lab projects match my study interests]
I was trying to apply for graduate school the year before last year because I could graudate last May. While I was reading the requirments and I realized I was not quite ready for graduate study. So I stopped applying and plan to get a minor. Duing the additional year, I made my acquaintance with bioinformatics, and tool some really great courses like immunology, and advanced genetics and had some different and new ideas about biology and about how I am going to persuit my goal in the future.
[That's it for today]
[To be continued...]
