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Blending Engineering and the Arts: Elise Larson
>>Male speaker: Did you do this? Is this you?
>>Larson: That's kind of just an exploration of some of the harder things that my career path might offer.
>>Larson: But then, literally, it's perspective. [background music starts]
>>Larson: Both of my parents are veterinarians,
but they decided that they wanted a dairy farm. [laughs]
>>Larson: They always killing me for showing that picture, but, um ...
>>Larson: So, since like age 12, um, my Mom's been teaching me things about medicine and then letting me sew up cows.
>>Larson: So that really
made me want to become a surgeon
and we took a trip to Mexico.
>>Larson: Since I saw some of the conditions there,
I got really interested in work abroad.
>>Larson: There's definitely parallels between engineering and art,
because a lot of the ways that you study art are looking at movements.
>>Larson, in lab: Now we're waiting two minutes to see ...
>>Larson: We're working on cardiac differentiation of stem cells,
and the medical aspect and the tissue aspect is really appealing to me.
>>Larson: I never thought my lack of nail polish skills would hurt me in the sciences, but such is life, I guess.
>>Larson, to group: Do you want to start with rooms that we've already discussed as being in place, or should we ... ?
>>Larson: I started right away with team lead in the clinic project.
>>Male speaker: ... to help us decide, can we actually do it.
>>Larson: I started to realize that, like, there's no way we can do this as just engineers.
>>Male speaker: ... do we want one toilet room, ....
>>Larson: The community is volunteering labor, so all of the community members are donating to this project.
>>Larson: We're going to install clean water, we're going to install solar energy.
>>Larson: It's a big project.
>>Larson: ... take, like, a personal responsibility for it.
>>Larson: So I realized what kind of global opportunities come with the engineering department.
>>Larson: These are the docks I go to.
>>Larson: It think it will help me become a better doctor,
because I'll understand how the things that I'm working with actually work.
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