As humans, we naturally have our highs and lows, but hopefully we have more good times than bad. This is evident all the way back to biblical times. I like to think I’ve had my share of good times, but hope that many more are still to come in my following years.
I’d have to say I was at “my best” during the summer of 2009. This was the summer of excitement; it was the summer I had the pleasure of milking pigs at dawn and dusk (can you hear the sarcasm???). This doesn’t sound like much excitement at all, but the meaning behind it and how it was performed was the first of it’s kind in the world – thus exciting from this standpoint.
During the spring of 2009, my father and I successfully created a procedure in which we could induce lactation in non-pregnant porcine. After a couple of trails during the winter, we had finally come to creating the procedure that made milk
Once we had the procedure perfected, we finally administrated it to a transgenic pig. This was where the real excitement was – finally what East Coast colleges couldn’t succeed in after 9 years of work, took us literally no time to have successful results. I wish I could publish more about this exciting time of my life, but as of right now the research firm is finishing the project up so that they can go public with the product and until then I can’t say too many specifics.
Doing something that no one else has ever completed successfully is quite the feeling, especially when you know it’s eventually going to make a huge positive difference in global healthcare (and no, I’m not referring to Obama Care :P). I plan on using this along with my future ambitions to do well in college.
