User:Xael821

Hi!

I've created this account as a part of my Williams College Winter Study course: Epidemiology and Public Health. I've chosen this course based on a long lived personal interest in medicine and disease- something my parents, both of whom are doctors, instilled in me as I grew up. While I'm not planning on a career in medicine, I acknowledge this field of study has tremendous practical implications.

I approach this course from a more mathematical perspective; I find the statistics behind determining causality and correlation of various exposures and effects interesting. This stems from my favorite academic field: computer science.

Another reason for my interest in Epidemiology is because I have traveled extensively, mainly in the Caribbean and during that time have gotten sick plenty of times, and gained some sort of an appreciation of the role modern medicine.