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When Joanna Schneider<\/strong> \u201818<\/strong> was 13 and watching her mom\u2019s friend die of colon cancer, she couldn\u2019t shake the feeling that if she just knew something about drug delivery and biopharmaceuticals, she could make a difference.<\/p>\n

Of course, she didn\u2019t yet know what \u201cdrug delivery\u201d and \u201cbiopharmaceuticals\u201d were; she figured out the terminology later. But the concepts sparked an interest in science that she carried through her years as a vocal major at a performing arts high school in Queens, NY, and into her current role as a junior majoring in ChemBE.<\/p>\n

\"\"That\u2019s not her only role. Schneider still sings with a campus a Capella<\/em> group, serves as a Resident Advisor and a teaching assistant, is a member of two fraternities\u2014pre-professional engineering and community service\u2014and works in a ChemBE lab. The lab work, where she tracks DNA nanotube stability and reassembly by tearing nanotubes apart and putting them back together, is Schneider\u2019s favorite part of her academic experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an environment where I feel I can ask questions and be myself and be a real person, along with being a scientist,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Schneider\u2019s lab investigations are only indirectly related to her drug delivery interests, which has helped her discover that the specific research problem matters far less than the overall experience of conducting experiments, gaining lab techniques, and framing questions. \u201cIt\u2019s shown me that I can become good at\u2014and like\u2014things that I didn\u2019t expect to,\u201d she says. Schneider plans to continue on the research path after graduation by pursuing a PhD in chemical or biomolecular engineering.<\/p>\n

Growing up as a triplet with a single mom, Schneider says she started carving her own path at an early age. While her sisters are identical, she is fraternal, which she says helped set her apart and propel her toward uncharted territory: in her case, science. A problem-solver, she found an immediate sense of belonging on the Homewood campus, where she quickly felt rewarded for \u201cthinking like an engineer\u201d\u2014something she\u2019d done all her life without realizing it. Her most meaningful moments have come from sitting down with peers who have different strengths from her own to break up a problem into its parts and unearth an answer that makes sense.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the people and the way of thinking, and working with<\/em> those people in<\/em> that way of thinking,\u201d Schneider says.<\/p>\n

Schneider\u2019s undergraduate admissions essay\u2014a mashup of String Theory and bakery employment\u2014was chosen to appear on Johns Hopkins University\u2019s \u201cEssays That Worked\u201d page. Read it <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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