We’re meeting Anna at home, with a cup of tea, a week before her coming back to Spain:
“When I was in my last year of high school and I needed to decide which bachelor I wanted to study, most of friends knew what they wanted to do, but I didnāt, and I was a little bit stressed.Ā
So I started to look at all the options…Ā allĀ of them
For instance, I knew I didnāt want to study letters or languages, but in science, I didnāt know exactly what I wanted to do. [ā¦] And you canāt know what you can do, because in the last years of high school you donāt go deep into subjects. So I just looked up all the subjects and decided to do genetics out of the blue.
I think they make you decide too early
[ā¦]I donāt like programming and this kind of stuff, I did two subjects about and I hate to stay in front of a computer. It just gets me annoyed when something isnāt working. And you can just do one mistake and it throws off the whole thing. I donāt like that. And I donāt like sitting all the time in front of the computer. I like to go to a laboratory and do some research. There are different topics I can do there actually.
Or maybe I can be like a teacher, itās not something Iām saying no to, but first Iād like to do a normal masters and then see
I’ve always had that in my mind.
[ā¦]I prefer to work in a hospital than in an office. In a laboratory yes, but I donāt know if I see myself doing that for all my life. You have to repeat everything⦠sometimes you can research all your life for something only to find out itās wrong. Itās really rare to be like āOMG I found something!ā.Ā
[ā¦]I love precision medicine. You know, prescribing medicine to people according to their genes and all. My thesis was about that. Iād like to do something like a website in english so people would understand and get used to the topic⦠I chose to do it in english only because it gives me more points actually *laughs*
Anna, 21
December 2018
note: Anna went back to Spain a week after our meeting to complete her last semester before graduation
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