With my great-grandmother's experience with Alzheimer's and meeting people with MS, I know that I want to go into pharmaceutical research eventually, and that doesn't should change. Outside of what inspired the path I want to take, there is also my mother. My mother always says that children should do better than their parents, and she gave me a lot to live up to, considering her role in anti-money laundering and vice president position at a bank. Although my mother and I are interested in different fields, I know that I need to make some form of impact in the world, whether small or large. In a way, my mother should be considered my mentor. For me, a mentor is a person who guides, helps and encourages their mentee in the right direction. Although my mother never pushed me to pursue engineering nor can she explain any engineering concepts to me, she regularly encourages me to follow my dreams and finds everything I need to help me get closer to my aspirations. Besides my mother, there are three women who I also consider my mentors. There are Randi Genung and Tracy Mis, both of my former teachers and Science Olympiad coaches, who kept me where I needed to be as a student interested in STEM and gave me the opportunity to be their teaching assistants for a year, doing making my love of science and math even greater. There's also Carrie Hutton who was my engineering teacher