positionwas: “My first paid professional experience was in an experiential program with the Louis StokesAlliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) in a biomedical engineering lab, and I helped oneof the graduate students in devloping a process that could assist individuals with high thoracicspinal cord injuries. They were in the early stages of creating this device, so I worked closelywith their test animals, the lab rats. I ran baseline tests on the animals, seeing how they reactedphysiologically to sounds with a normal nervous system. Then they would induce spinal corddamage, and we would repeat the sound tests to see if their reaction to the noise changed. Ilearned a lot about data analytics in this position. The next summer, I was going