Hey! Thanks for visiting my website. My name is Nina and I'm an undergrad in college. The above question is one I ask myself every day, to be very honest. And I'm still not sure that I have an answer.
One thing about me that's core to my answer is that I am very passionate about improving the human condition, and one of the ways in which I want to accomplish this is by fighting against neurodegenerative conditions. These diseases are uniquely devastating in that they take the souls and lives of those we love far before they are actually gone, and I want to spend my life working on them.
I'm doing this through my work decoding cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's Disease at the MIT Tsai lab, co-directing Harvard's Alzheimer's Buddies volunteer program, meta-thinking about science at EngineeringX, and some more.