Adriana Went From Hating Chemistry To Loving It!
Adriana Cuibus is an undergraduate student at Skidmore College.
Adriana Cuibus is a Goldwater Scholar who is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry with Biochemistry concentration at Skidmore College, PA.
1.ABC - Anything But Chemistry!
Adriana has been a Science nerd since High School.
She loved Earth Science.
Geology really got her excited. So did Math and Biology.
But, Chemistry confused her.
So, Adriana says, she “hated Chemistry with a passion”!
2.Advisor at Skidmore
Adriana had always wanted to be a medical doctor.
So, she wanted to be PreMed when she got Skidmore.
She took some Biology and Geology classes.
Then Adriana’s advisor told her that he could see her as a Chemistry Major!
He asked her to look into that.
3.Chemistry?
As you might expect, Adriana didn’t readily embrace the Chemistry idea.
Anyway, her advisor suggested she take Linear Algebra.
She was fascinated by Math.
She loved Biology. She wanted to take more Biology.
But then she found that she needed Chemistry to understand Biology.
Chemistry was a requirement for Biology.
So, she took Chemistry, and it all started to make sense.
Chemistry wasn’t too bad!
4.Advisor’s Master Plan?
Looking back, she wonders if her Advisor nudged her towards Chemistry, by advising her to take Linear Algebra.
He knew she loved Math, and
Linear Algebra is requirement for a Biochemistry Major!
But, then there was another part of Adriana that doesn’t give up easily.
Chemistry intrigued her, confused her, and
She took it on as a challenge to understand it.
5.Gratitude
Adriana is really grateful to her Advisor.
Without his guidance, she wouldn’t have “conquered” Chemistry,
A key building block for her Major and her future.
As Adriana says, “Sometimes you really have to trust your professors.
Sometimes the people, you would not expect to have the biggest influence on you,
Will have the biggest influence on you.”
6.On with the Podcast
On our podcast, Adriana shares her undergraduate experience at Skidmore, UG Research in Computational Biophysics, Winning the Goldwater Scholarship, Majoring in Chemistry, and Advice for High Schoolers.
Listen to the Podcast with Adriana Cuibus of Skidmore College. (56-Minute Listen).
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