I initially came into this program knowing what my future career was going to be and what I wanted to do with my life. Although my goals in life are still clear, there has been a detour along the way. It is not a bad detour however, but a rather good one. Throughout my high school career I was always taught that there was only one correct path for one right answer. However, this is not the case at the Hutch, there is no right or wrong answer, and there is no straight path to a discovery. What there is though, is excitement, mistakes, wrong turns, and failures. But these failures and mistakes are not the end of the world, no they are not, they are a new beginning. A new beginning in which cannot be described nor predicted, a new beginning that one cannot serve as a simple solution, but a world full of mysteries and changes.
Although my time here at the Fred Hutch Explorers Program has come to an end, my time as an aspiring doctor and researcher is only at the beginning. This program has not only invited me to meet new people and make new connections, but it has also opened my eyes to a whole new world full of science and research. And in just two weeks I was able to learn new material and different career paths. So that detour I mentioned in the beginning of this blog was not a block in my road, but a right turn to a freeway full of surprises and new possibilities.
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