From: Alex Future Bokov (alexboko@umich.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 26 1999 - 23:05:17 MST
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My friends, I find myself moving toward a career change. Since my
early teens I've wanted to become a research scientist working on the
problem of human aging. Money and social status were never the main
motivators for me-- all I ever cared about was this goal. I sacrificed
much for it.
Now at 25 I'm coming to grips with the fact that I've blown eight
years in undergrad, with nothing to show for it but a mediocre GPA and a
long string of failures wherever hands-on labwork was involved. I'm not
giving up on my goal, but perhaps it's time to change my approach.
So, if not as a scientist, then how else do you think an
individual can further the cause of researching a way to slow or reverse
the aging process? What do you think the field of biological gerontology
needs most from laymen sympathizers? Or, are there any alternative paths
to serious research that don't depend heavily on school transcripts and
recommendations from professors? If you were me, what would you do?
I am asking you because you are among the few groups of people
whose opinions I respect, and I thank you if you choose to respond.
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