Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Hello Everybody!
Hi, my name is Michael Guo. Most of my friends call me Guo because it’s nice and easy and is pretty catchy. I was born in Chengdu, China, but have lived in Naples, FL most of my life. Currently, I’m a sophomore doing joint degrees in Cellular, Molecular Biology (CMB) and Business Administration.
Just about everyone gives me awkward glances when I tell them I’m doing these two majors. People always ask why I would undertake two majors that have seemingly no correlation, and I really don’t have a good answer to be honest. I came to Michigan as a premed student, which is why I started off as a CMB major. However, experiences in the medical field have caused me to question that choice. So, when Business school applications rolled around last spring, I thought “Why not?” I figured I’d give it a try. Now, after three months of B-school classes, I’ve realized that it was a really good decision. The stuff I learn in these classes—teamwork, management, computer skills—can benefit me in just about any field I go into.
I guess that gives me a pretty interesting courseload: Accounting, Business Economics, Business Information Technology, Biochemistry, and Chinese III. I especially love Accounting and Biochemistry, even though they’re my hardest classes by far. Biochemistry is pretty demanding, and very boring at times, but other times it is actually really cool.
I also try to get involved around campus. Right now, I am a member of Chi Psi Fraternity, and have been elected treasurer for the coming school year. I also am actively involved in a Pre-med Honor Fraternity called Alpha Epsilon Delta, where I get to participate in a multitude of activities such as shadowing doctors, helping out at hospitals, and going on tours to various medical schools. This fall, I started volunteering in the ECMO research lab, working on extracorporeal life support, which is basically a method of providing organ support to patients whose heart and lungs are dysfunctional. This past summer, I got to work in the Chang Laboratory on protein degradation in yeast. At times, it was tedious, but at the same time, that was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. On Saturdays (except home football games of course), I volunteer at Sunrise Assisted Living, where I help take care of Alzheimer’s patients.
That’s a short introduction of my academic and extracurricular life. I’ll try to have more interesting posts in the future.
Just about everyone gives me awkward glances when I tell them I’m doing these two majors. People always ask why I would undertake two majors that have seemingly no correlation, and I really don’t have a good answer to be honest. I came to Michigan as a premed student, which is why I started off as a CMB major. However, experiences in the medical field have caused me to question that choice. So, when Business school applications rolled around last spring, I thought “Why not?” I figured I’d give it a try. Now, after three months of B-school classes, I’ve realized that it was a really good decision. The stuff I learn in these classes—teamwork, management, computer skills—can benefit me in just about any field I go into.
I guess that gives me a pretty interesting courseload: Accounting, Business Economics, Business Information Technology, Biochemistry, and Chinese III. I especially love Accounting and Biochemistry, even though they’re my hardest classes by far. Biochemistry is pretty demanding, and very boring at times, but other times it is actually really cool.
I also try to get involved around campus. Right now, I am a member of Chi Psi Fraternity, and have been elected treasurer for the coming school year. I also am actively involved in a Pre-med Honor Fraternity called Alpha Epsilon Delta, where I get to participate in a multitude of activities such as shadowing doctors, helping out at hospitals, and going on tours to various medical schools. This fall, I started volunteering in the ECMO research lab, working on extracorporeal life support, which is basically a method of providing organ support to patients whose heart and lungs are dysfunctional. This past summer, I got to work in the Chang Laboratory on protein degradation in yeast. At times, it was tedious, but at the same time, that was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. On Saturdays (except home football games of course), I volunteer at Sunrise Assisted Living, where I help take care of Alzheimer’s patients.
That’s a short introduction of my academic and extracurricular life. I’ll try to have more interesting posts in the future.
