hah. seems more like a conversation between me and you matrix haha....anywho
i started writing my ps in may. throughout my senior year i would jot down ideas. after i graduated i finally took the time and constructed a statement. my first statement was way long...after about 5 edits, it was cut short to around the limit. i let my friend who is a pharmacist look at my personal statement. at the time i gave him my ps, i also gave him my ucsd supplemental i filled out. oddly, i submitted my ucsd supplemental WAyyyy before pharmcas...like atleast a month. after he read my ps and supplemental, he said my supplemental was way better than my ps, so i totally rewrote my ps into a better focus. after about 10 edits, i finalized my ps. i sent it off to two of my good friends for viewing. my final version i didn't let any of my friends see until i submitted pharmcas because i wanted to be able to send off my work completed by me. so basically my point is, edit edit edit....it'll take sometime before you find the right focus and personal statement you can call your own.
i do research on airway and lung epithelium affected by environmental toxicants. i am not sure if you've heard of lysis lavage, but one of the labs i work for developed this technique in collected protein samples from airway and lung epithelium. i do necropies of lungs/heart of mice and our lab studies tissue damage and lots of molecular techniques...rna purification, rt-pcr..etc...one of the major pathways our lab focuses on is naphthalene metabolism. at the moment, our lab is working closely to the mEH knockout mice to determine if mEH affects naphthalene metabolism. napthalene by the way is a toxic pollutant in the air, moth balls, resins, dyes, and a by-product of coal factories... it is also in tobacco smoke/ciggarettes
hah....interesting eh?
