With a heavily gloved hand, I blindly groped through a vat of acid trying to find what I was looking for. The fumes burned my nose, I searched faster, and finally grabbed a clean flask. I clamped it over a bath of warm oil and added a few drops of my precursor, a red liquid. Quickly, I walked across the lab to a bright blue cabinet labeled “acid”, removed a bottle, and walked back to my fume hood, aware of...

I developed a strong relationship with my regional admission officer (so much that she e-mailed me when...

I met with a professor at Northwestern when I toured, and was able to talk to her about what I wanted...

I had two high school teachers write recommendations. One was a teacher in the field I wanted to study, and the other...