"At California State, in Los Angeles, prospective medical research students have begun to take
advantage of the recently renovated medical campus at their school.
speaker 2: So, actually, well, my name is Alejandra.
Well, in short it's Alex, that's why I wrote this little sign right there.
And I'm a graduate students actually, so I'm a master student in physics.
And I chose this lab, which is a bio chem lab, to see how physics can be incorporated.
So it's kind of like an interdisciplinary type of research that I wanna do, so that's
what I'm doing right now.
I grew up in Eagle Rock, it's here in California.
It's a little town between Pasadena and Glendale.
So I grew up there, I graduated from Eagle Rock High School, and then I came to Cal State
LA an undergrad, and I'm doing my master's here as well.
So for me, I like many things.
I love bio, I love math, physics, chemistry, but what I wanna do is use physics, so that's
why I chose physics, because I want to learn more about the basics in order for me to apply
into research.
In any type of research, so it an be bio, bio-chemistry, chemistry, or even physics.
But I really wanna know the basics first for me to be able to apply them and research.
So that's why, that's one of the reasons why I chose physics.
The other is because I actually like the whole theory in how people came out with all these
ideas and formulas that solve most of our problems right now.
I think that people that surround me, inspire me to do what I do.
So for me, I'm the first generation college student, so my family, I really didn't have
anyone that would push me to do research.
But as I got into science and I met more professors and what the did, they inspired me to get
into research.
And I found it really interesting what they do and what I can do with the training that
I obtained in this school.
My favorite part is to see results, so see how all the work that I've done come up with
some results.
Whether they're good or not, but it keeps me motivated to keep working and fixing what
I did wrong or keep pushing what I did right.
So I really like that fact that what we're doing and what I'm doing in research will
eventually help in new discoveries, or contribute to something that's already known but needed
more support.
So that's what I really like, the results that came from research.
The most rewarding experience in the medical science?
Like I said, I think, I think it's the fact that doing this could help many people in
many other fields as well.
So that's very rewarding, that I'm contributing to something for everybody, or for society.
So my undergrad, I did it, I studied biochemistry and physics, and right now I'm doing a Master's
in Physics.
But what I really wanna do is pursue a PhD in Bioengineering, especially tissue engineering
because I know there's a lot of need in that.
So that's one of my goals, to have a PhD in Bioengineering, so be able to combine chemistry
and physics, and put it together in a field.
So an advice is just, just keep, keep yourself motivated.
There, it's hard to do science, but it's very rewarding at the end.
It could be a little work, but if you think about what you could accomplish with it, that
would motivate you and you know that it's very, very rewarding to do science and continue."