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So I am originally from
originally from Nigeria where I grew up
and I lived for like 12 years of my life.
It's funny 'cause I hadn't even planned on coming here.
I had taken exams to go to a school
in my country, and my school
the high school I went at that time they offered
opportunities for students to take the SAT,
so I took that exam and I had my score sent out to some schools but I wasn't
really focusing on it and then a few months later
I get an email from Hofstra telling me Oh, they like my SAT score and
I should apply and they're waiving my application fee and it was really
enticing.
I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do
in high school but I knew I loved
the sciences but I didn't know what exactly I wanted to specialize in.
I spoke to one of my cousins who had gone
to London to study and she graduated with the
bachelors in geology and I just asked her about it
and what's it like, what it involves
and she got me really excited about it so I came to school
and I decided to try it out and I just fell in love with it.
When I first came, and it was really difficult for me to understand the
accent
I like, I would go through my classes and I would be like, whoa
i don't understand, I need like someone to break it down slowly
for me to assimilate. Now it's definitely better because
I've interacted a lot with my friends and I understand the accent better
but before I had to go in and spend
like the extra time with my professors and they were always willing to help me out
which was so amazing.
So I am involved in physical chemistry research
with Doctor Sobel in the chemistry department.
The research I'm doing involves a lot of math
mathematical modeling, so basically it's
it's an oscillating chemical reaction
so it's a chemical reaction and it fluctuates or
it goes back and forth, repeats in circles and
We found that from
from literature that there are a lot of biological systems
that follow this kind of pattern where they oscillate.
Understanding how the reaction of course would help us understand
oh, so what is controlling
contraction and if we sort of like increase this component, how's that going to affect
like contraction of the heart muscles or relaxation of the heart muscles and
how much blood will be delivered to the body.
This January, I'm going to be involved in a study
abroad to the Galapagos in Ecuador and we're going to be looking at the biology
and the geology of the area, so basically
trying to tour and reconstruct everything that Charles Darwin
did when he toured the Galapagos.
I'm really looking forward to that, there's a lot of
rich geology there, there's a lot of little
like shield volcanoes and interesting geological features to look at.
We're going to be going snorkeling, I've never snorkeled before
so I'm really excited about that, i'm looking forward to it.
I have a strong inclination towards working in the oil industry
at least for a start, and to get myself familiar with that and see if it's
something I really like.
So, if I
I need to go to grad school for that, I'm going to get my masters
in either energy resources engineering or
petroleum engineering and then take it from there,
see if I can get a job. I know like
ultimately I really want to give back to my country
Nigeria in one way or the other.