Although I only had preliminary results for my Honors Thesis since I had only started working on it a few months prior, I thought it would be a good experience to present it at an undergraduate linguistics conference. The conference was at Cornell and lasted the weekend, so in order to participate I would need funds to travel there and stay overnight, as well as to print my poster. Fortunately, the honors grant provided me with this opportunity.

As a freshman starting off my academic career in Civil Engineering, I knew from the start I would like to acquire as much knowledge and experience during the time given to me at Northeastern. With the help of advisers and recommendations from professors, I decided to apply for research study opportunities on campus. Research is a great opportunity to produce and receive high quality knowledge in the field of my interest.

When I decided to be a chemical engineer, never in a million years did I think I would become an expert at dissecting frog and cow eyes. However, after only a month in Professor Rebecca Carrier’s Advanced Drug Delivery Research Laboratory, that’s exactly what I had become. I know that may seem gross – and it was for the first dozen or so – but it was also for a great scientific cause. We needed to dissect those eyes in order to isolate the retina, the cornerstone of our research project.