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The good thing about biotechnology is we're kind of geared to do anything in the industry.
Microbiology. Wet chemistry. Quality control testing on food. Cutures... right now we're
making wine. Chromatography. Separating different DNA by sizes. There's just so many different
sciences. Identifying unknown DNA fragments.
Those are basically all the fun ones.
My mom is absolutely fascinated. She thinks it's the coolest thing ever and can't believe
I'm taking biotechnology.
Since I was a kid I wanted to splice DNA or do something like that.
I was always really interested in the sciences and I had looked online a the website. All
the information they gave about biotechnology, it had a lot of job opportunities.
I also was interested in the hands-on experience that you get at the college. This year I have
six labs through the five days of school. So I mean it's a lot of hands on experience
that I can actually use in the workplace.
Durham College gave me the practical skills that employers want to see.
You have such a broad range of knowledge at the end of the three years you can go apply
for several positions.
Somebody coming in on their own can expect to leave here working. There's things you
can do with DNA that other sciences can't do and other medicines can't do, and it's
kind of the future of medicine.