As I reach one month into my summer break, I’ve taken the chance to hop onto research opportunities to strengthen my application. The most promising that I’ve looked into is a research and student mentorship company called Polygence. They specialize in helping students like me find research opportunities by matching us with specialists in the field you want to study. But before you sign up for the instructor matching, you have to interview with the head of admissions to see if you would gain a regular admission or a recommended admission. Because my interview went well, I got a recommended admission, and I was admitted into polygene the same day I had my interview. My instructor is a woman named Alison, and she seems to know a lot about my field. How the research paper will work is I will do 10 meetings with Alison. At every meeting, she guided me in making a research paper that I hope to publish later down the line. The project will take all summer, with it starting with a possible meeting tomorrow and I will find out what Alison wants me to publish. Doing a research project will help me dig deeper into my field because everything I have been doing so far is not research by myself, I just do some courses and I haven’t looked deep into public policy. When my summer is over, I should hopefully have a research paper ready to post to the public so other kids like me who specialize in the same field can gain inspiration. Another thing that is happening over the summer is that I am taking more courses based on my specialized field. I’ve signed up for a few courses that will teach me more about insurance, and I will do most of them over the summer. I’m also taking time to do things outside research and academics. I’m starting to swim laps around a club pool a lot more, and I’m also starting to learn how to drive. In my next blog post, I’ll be finished with my project, and I’ll tell you all about the paper and how it was written