In search of the big picture

I entered graduate school with the goal of one day running my own lab. Research attracted me because I wanted to learn how things worked: I wanted to understand how as complex an organism as a human was organized and built; I wanted to learn how thoughts were formed and what the roots of consciousness were; and I wanted to know how bodies broke through disease and aging. In my bright-eyed days as a first-year grad student I was fascinated by all things biological… and I still am. But today I have chosen to satisfy this interest in a less direct way.