Biology Course for Students

Jessi Lee

By the time you’re in grade 11, or maybe even in grade 10 or 9, you start to get a sense of what you want to do when you’re older, or at least what you are good at (though sometimes they aren’t always the same thing). When I was on the cusp of junior and senior high school, I was terrible at biology. Since the science courses before grade 11 were all general sciences, only a part of my mark ever came from biology, though my poor performance in it still dragged my grades down. I decided to study biology not because I thought I was going to be good at it, but because I was terrible, because it was the hardest thing I could think of doing. Fast forward to today, I placed 9th in Canada for the Canadian Biology Olympiad, and I’ve led a fulfilling career as a high school researcher through my numerous projects at the University of Calgary and University of Alberta. I’ll continue to do my best, to amaze and astonish. With every word, I’ll drop knowledge.