S-STEM Scholar Misty Ghee's Blog

 My professional goals for the next five to ten years are in a way on hold for my education. I know for sure that I will be spending the next two years focusing on my Masters degree. This will give me the ability to run and eventually open my own lab for environmental testing. By doing so I will free up more of my time to work for the charities that are important to me. The societal changes that worry me right now is the ability of our politicians and media to help cause discourse within us a population, along with a generation of children who don't seem to have respect for others. If things don't change soon I am terrified for the world my children will live in. There tends to be a misunderstanding about what a protest is and how it is different from rioting. If you are supporting a cause why are you destroying life long dreams of those that belong to your cause. The divide between Americans seem to be getting larger and larger and if this doesn't change I foresee another ...

 I went about the whole college thing backwards. I started a career and then realized to advance further I needed a degree. So when I went into the biology field I already had a great baseline knowledge about biology. I will say the one thing that has wowed me per say is how complex soil actually is, and how many different components there are to it, soil is its own ecosystem.  In the next three years I am looking forward to advancing my skills in analyzing data from research obtained. I am going to succeed in this by going through ASU Wests Masters program of Biological Data Science. I really want to zone in on fungi and how it spreads throughout different materials.