When I began my undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, I knew exactly what I was going to study. It started in a high school civics class, when our teacher handed out some university program fliers to help us figure out our career paths. One of these fliers was for a Bioinformatics program. I learned that a specialization in Bioinformatics combined two of my strongest passions — Biology & Computer Science. From that point on, I would go on to pursue those passions relentlessly throughout undergrad, and now at BioBox. An exemplary instance of combining my passions is the real-scale 3D mitochondria I built for a project course. Outside of classes I kept these passions alive by participating in a Google Summer of Code project under the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, leading the iGEM dry lab team and joining the Center for Computational Medicine as a co-op student, where I would end up staying beyond my co-op term as summer research student on the CANDIG project. At CCM I worked on full stack web development, cloud computing infrastructure, and would participate in the bioinformatician team meetings. These skills in concert, unknowingly to me at the time, had prepared me for what would be the most exciting opportunity yet…