Post 3: Biochemistry

Biochemistry isn't a well-known profession, many people have never heard of it, even my mother often asks me what I'm studying, and when someone asks her, she says I'm studying biotechnology haha. However, the pandemic showed how important biochemistry is, around the world thousands of scientists are working tirelessly to find a vaccine, or learn more about this deadly disease. This doesn't mean that all biochemists work studying diseases, there're some who study specific proteins, or a certain cellular mechanism, some prefer to study bacteria. It's precisely for these reasons that I decided to study this career, for the different fields in which I can specialize later.

I was very indecisive when I was in school, I didn't know I wanted to study. I was bored with literature and suffered in my history classes, but enjoyed my science classes, so I started looking for related careers. Initially I didn't choose biochemistry because I liked it, but because I didn't see myself working on my other options, however in these two years I have really fallen in love with my career, to think that in the future I can be part of scientific discoveries is very exciting.





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