All About Me by Aadarsh Balaji

Hi everyone!
I’m Aadarsh Balaji. As of now, I’m fifteen years old, and I’m a freshman at Garnet Valley High School.
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As you can tell by my participation in the TRIP program, I really, really love science. It’s one of my favorite things to do, and to be honest, I can’t think of anything more interesting than science itself. Science allows us to make predictions about nearly everything. It allows us to explain even the most bizzare of phenomena. And, it is a sacred method used to investigate the mysterious secrets that are hidden in our world. It’s basically magic, but real!

Other than science, I enjoy reading fantasy and (sometimes) dystopian novels, I play tennis, and I love video games; Oh, and watching Netflix and YouTube. I also enjoy daydreaming about random things, and I really like mechanical drafting pencils.

​The reason I applied to TRIP is because I wanted to be able to do research of my own, be exposed to the scientific world, and learn. Although it’s only been two weeks so far, I’ve already learned a lot about fly biology and I’ve started my first experiment on fruit flies! It’s a ton of fun, and it’s only going to get better from now on!

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