S-STEM Scholar Kassandra Barrera's Blog

  1. What are your professional goals, 1 year, 5 years, and 10 years into the future? What will accomplishing these goals let you do? How will accomplish these goals impact those around you and what will it make possible for those in your community?  I believe that in 10 years from now I will be working in a nice accredited crime laboratory for a while now. I also would love to help out my family and slowly start repaying everything that my parents have done for me. I also would love to be starting a family of my own. Something that I told myself that I would love to accomplish is, I would love to give back to Phoenix College and ASU. Throughout my education I had so much help from these schools that I feel the need to give back and help others who are barely starting their education journey. 2. What are societal challenges that matter to you that you think it's important to deal with now? What do you think are the challenges that will matter 10 years in the future, and 20 years in

Picture  1. What did you know about your field 3 years ago, and what have you learned about that has 'wowed' you? (Supplemental questions: What did you use to think was an advanced topic in your subject, and what do you believe to be now? What was the experience that you feel you learned the most from?) Honestly, three years ago, I switched majors to what I am majoring in now, which is Forensic Science. When I first started my college journey straight out of high school, I enrolled in the biomedical program, and I wanted to become a biomedical engineer. For two years, I did that, and in the final semester, when it was time to transfer over to ASU in Lake Havasu, I decided that I was always interested in forensic science. I remember when I was a small kid, I would watch all the crime shows you can think of, and the idea of looking at a piece of evidence and creating a story and examining it was something so interesting to me. So I did the craziest thing, and I switched my major