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Getting to Know Anjali by Anjali Patel

4/14/2020

TRIP Initiative is a great way for me to get involved in research and challenge myself before college...I will be to meet new people, work under professionals, and learn more about their work.

Hello, my name is Anjali Patel and I am a senior at William Tennent High School. I have lived in Warminster my entire life, so I plan to move out and live somewhere else after high school. I am very passionate about traveling. My goal is to travel to all fifty states and seven continents, so I'm slowly working towards my goal. Some of my favorite places I have visited are Italy, France, and Switzerland and I would love to visit them again someday. I really enjoy playing the violin, creating and editing short films, playing lacrosse, and creating ceramics pieces. I recently finished my college application process as an intended major in biomedical engineering, and I have decided that I will be attending the University of Pittsburgh this fall.

I decided to participate in the TRIP Initiative because I want to pursue research in the future, so this is a great way for me to get involved in research and challenge myself before college. I will also be able to meet new people, work under professionals, and learn more about their work. These past two weeks at the program have been incredible. I have learned so much about my peers and my instructors. In the future, I am excited to see which path I choose for my independent project.

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Howdy! by Bridget Armstrong

4/10/2020

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Howdy! (Hopefully, like Dr. Purdy has, you’ll know me as the girl who says “howdy.”) I’m Bridget Armstrong and I’m a senior at William Tennent High School. The first thing you should know about me is that I’m very involved in the arts at my school. I’m the editor in chief of Tennent’s literary magazine, The Muse. I helped create The Muse to provide a home for my peers and I to share our talents, whether it be written, performed, sculpted, or created any other way. I also participate in five different musical groups, where I have played the flute, mellophone, and my beloved french horn (isn’t she gorgeous?). On top of that, I take ceramics classes at school and paint with my free time at home… So you could say I really appreciate the arts.

While I love fine arts, I love science even more. Specifically, I love learning about the brain. Learning about the different ways in which the brain functions and varies across different people fascinates me, and has inspired me to pursue a career in neuroscience. I can’t wait to get my feet wet in the world of research through TRIP and learn with great people.

I know that mistakes are bound to be made in the lab. The great part about making them is that I can learn from those mistakes and have a better understanding of how and why my errors change the experiment." ~ Bridget Armstrong

The first two weeks of TRIP were great! I’ve already made several mistakes and lost flies! Yay! Joking aside, I know that mistakes are bound to be made in the lab. The great part about making them is that I can learn from those mistakes and have a better understanding of how and why my errors change the experiment. The great part about TRIP is that there is a whole team of teaching assistants, instructors, and peers that help me understand. We work as a team to make sure that everyone is on the same page, and we grow as scientists with each other. I love TRIP and I can’t wait to make more mistakes with my session A gang.

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Did y’all hear about the new girl, Cherry? by Charitha Marni

4/8/2020

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Greetings fellow TRIP website visitors! My name is Charitha (please never call me that, I like to go by Cherry) Marni and I’m currently a junior at Downingtown STEM Academy. Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’re either a future/current TRIP applicant trying to see if this program is even worth your time, or you’re my mom reading this for the 21st time admiring the one (1) thing her daughter has accomplished in the past 16 years. I’m kidding! I’ve accomplished other things! I’ve successfully mastered almost every TikTok dance and read The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde so many times that I’ve lost count, to name a few of my outstanding accomplishments.

Anyway, apart from wasting my life away on TikTok and reading the same piece of gay literature over and over again (yes, I don’t care what anyone says, The Picture of Dorian Gray should definitely be classified as gay literature), I love to play guitar, sing, laugh in the backseats of my friends’ cars because I don’t have my permit yet (embarrassing, I know), and volunteer at a local nonprofit called Cradles to Crayons. I mean, I also do a lot of other things but I guess no one actually reveals everything about themselves in a Get-To-Know-Me post on the internet, right? You get the gist. I’ve pretty much laid out all of the main parts of my life. So why did someone like me want to apply to TRIP?

You know, that’s a great question, and I’m not even sure it has just one answer. As a junior in high school, I am simultaneously very sure and also not sure at all of what I want to do when I’m older. I’ve been thinking about going into Psychology and/or Chemistry in college and perhaps something related to research after I get my undergraduate degree but for the time being, all of that is just a thought. I applied to TRIP to see if that’s something I can seriously see myself doing. I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but I like to think of myself as very bubbly, curious, and desperate to help as many people as I can. All I really want is to find a profession in which I can let those parts of my personality shine, and I figured TRIP was a great way to find out if research is the right fit for me. I also applied to TRIP because I saw it as a great opportunity to meet new people. I’m always looking to expand my circle and make new friends and I thought this was a pretty cool way to find like-minded people. Just between you and me, after my first two weeks at TRIP, I can confidently say I am very satisfied with the friendships I’ve made with the amazing people I’ve met and the amazing things I’ve gotten to do in the lab.

I won’t ramble for too long, but yeah! That’s me in a nutshell! I’m totally looking forward to writing more for the TRIP blog and learning new things along the way.

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Hey, I’m Anjali! by Anjali Kejariwal

4/6/2020

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Hi! My name is Anjali Kejariwal and I'm a junior at Spring-Ford High School in Royersford. I have always been interested in math and science and have always learned best with hands-on activities. Currently, I want to be an engineer and I want to further my interest in research and science which is why I am so excited to be a part of TRIP!

Other than dancing, I am also part of Junior Achievement where myself and a group of high schoolers create a business and learn each aspect of maintaining a company (marketing, sales, finance, human resources, supply chain). I am currently the VP of finance, so even in a business environment I can pursue my interest in math. Continuing with the business aspect of my life, recently my brother and I created a certified nonprofit called Sweatshirts to Scrubs where we teach children about health and medicine.

In school, I am part of Student Council, Model UN, and High School Heros, but I am also involved with many other activities outside of school. I love to dance and have been dancing since I was very little. I began with ballet, tap, and jazz at Dance Depot, but then switched to Bollywood dancing when I was 8 years old and have fallen in love ever since. Now, rather than just learning how to dance, I teach children and adults how to dance too, and it’s one of my favorite things to do.

Other than these activities, I also work at Duck Donuts, which, in my opinion, are the best doughnuts ever. In my free time, I love watching football (I’m a Giants fan, not an Eagles fan), watching Netflix shows, hanging out with my friends, and traveling.

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Getting to Know Anjali by Anjali Patel

Howdy! by Bridget Armstrong

Did y’all hear about the new girl, Cherry? by Charitha Marni

Hey, I’m Anjali! by Anjali Kejariwal

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