How I became a Newton

                   How I Became A Newton

 My name is Justin Albert Medina Lopez and i'am a Afro-Latino boy from Orlando Florida.I spent my summer doing SSFRP , its the acronym for Secondary School Field Research Program. It was a Summer Job for me. I worked six weeks , for about 40 hours a week. I got paid 1,365 dollars by Columbia University.Getting paid to do science research at one of the top schools in the world. 

          It all sounds like a dream , right? well this experience was very real I can tell you that much. For me this program was more than just science or a job. This was a learning experience , and a life changing one. The program consisted of various groups. I was on the data analysis team. My job was to make sure that everyone collected the information correctly , and that all the beta data was correct , time , date, temperature, latitude, and so on. It was a tedious task but it taught me the importance of taking my time to do work correctly and also to pay attention to detail. My supervisor was Dr.Robert Newton, we called him Bob for short. I called him Grand-pahp-ee because he lectured me on the importance of not becoming what most thought I would , in jail or a drug dealer. 

     The reason people had this idea that I would be one of the two options above it because both of my parents had been. I love both my father and mother dearly but they made my childhood very rough. My mother was always in the streets so I barely say her and my father lived thousands of miles away from me. I grew up in the streets always a smart and talented kid but continuously tempted by the evils of fast money. I was to smart to fall into my parents foot steps though. 

    I shared my history with Bob and he shared his with me. He had just as rough of a child hood as me, maybe even worse. He taught me to have the "Eye of the tiger". To never give up. He used a simple word to help open up me eyes to the real world around me , "Analysis". If you use this simple yet complex idea in everyday life you will realize that life is always going to  be hard emotionally and physically but that doesn't mean you back down. Life its self is a scientific experiment. A roller coaster of trial and error , some are better than others but none are more important than the next. Just as with scientific discoveries. The moment I realized this I became a Newton. I vowed to never give up on anything again , because if I give the world everything i've got than just like grand-pahp-ee I can inspire other children of misfortune to pursue through adversity.

  So in the summer of 2017 Justin Albert Medina Lopez became Justin Albert Medina Lopez Newton the boy who used science to inspire.