fitting that my PECASE certificate finally arrived many months late and looking worse for wear (much like me these days😂😭). Still grateful to the Biden admin. for recognizing the importance of junior investigators in science❤️

my HS biology teacher made this textbook and course FROM SCRATCH and somehow scrounged up the supplies to have a molecular biology lab in our classroom. And this wasn’t some fancy school; my town was pretty rural (👋Centralia!) and only had the one HS. Clearly a formative experience for me🥹