Why Did I Choose My Career / Study Program

I always like to play sports, I remember since I was a child me watching the Olympics Games, on specific running events like spring or relays. Therefore, since I was a child, I want to become an athlete. Nevertheless, when I was 13 years old, I was diagnosed with a lumbar disease (LDD), that meant for me stopped to play sports.

Despite felt bad about that, I changed my negative thoughts in positives because I turn into a calmer and patient person. It means a lot for me because I began to think on what is around me or who I am, maybe that was the reason behind my decision to study biochemistry.  

I need to say be calmer and patient than before don’t help me on what I want to be or study, since I have an interest in a lot of things so that I was very anxious in my last years on the school. This pressure helps me to spend more time thinking what I want to be and how I see myself in 10 years. So little by little I started to spot my interest in science, I become friend with my chemistry teacher, and we have talked a lot about different things. Besides, talking with her I realized the careers I wanted to study.
It´s right, I been closer to know what I want to be, but, even so I was very undecided in what career chose. Therefore, when I was 17 years old, I signed up in a science contest at the USACH (Universidad de Santiago de Chile), I spent a year studying how to make beer using yeast bread and honey. I met a lot of nice people and I made new friends, but the most important for me was finally decide my career. At this time, I was unresolved into chose between chemistry pharmaceutical and biochemistry but thank to this contest I could choose my career, biochemistry.

Today I am very happy studying the career that I chose, I enjoy learning a lot of different things that sometimes don’t have a directly relationship with my future and maybe in the next years I will be uncertain in what I want to work, but I try to be chill.
Besides, I know what I want to be, I want to become a researcher.

Finally, I think there's something that´s never changed since I was a kid and it's that I have always wanted to live doing something that makes me happy.