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The only Daily Pennsylvanian issue I remember from freshman year is the graduation issue. I had tacked the paper on my bedroom wall so my roommate and I could refer to the photos of ecstatic graduates for inspiration. Now, almost three years later, it’s our turn to be the joyous graduates, and I still can’t believe it.
It was like any other seder — matzoh, wine, songs and a feast. But there was one big difference: of the 11 of us sitting around the table, only four were Jewish. It was the United Nations of religion, with Christianity, Hinduism and even atheism represented.
Last week, I received my last medical school decision. For us applicants, it’s been almost a year of crafting personal statements, skipping class for interviews and agonizing waiting — not to mention years of science classes and MCAT anticipation. It’s finally over.
By the time spring semester of my freshman year began, I already knew I wanted to do laboratory research that summer. Choosing to work in a lab was the easy part. But choosing the lab was impossible.
“If a woman talks about working in a man’s world, we come across as feminists, and I’m most definitely not a feminist. I’m just a woman doing a job,” said Sonia Friedman, the producer of Legally Blonde: The Musical in London. This quotation is alarming because its speaker produces one of the most famous feminist stories of the 21st century — that of Elle Woods.
The Vagelos Scholars Program in Molecular Life Sciences is structured so that we have one free elective each semester of freshman year. I usually filled that blank slot with courses that were related either to my background or professional goals: for example, a writing seminar about Chinese medicine or Biomedical Ethics.