Ananya

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CSEcon student (pre-med, PLME program) at Brown University; Nabi (intern); Penn Medicine (student researcher)

Grew up/based near Philadelphia, PA; attends Brown University

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- Wanted to be a doctor as a kid; went through a phase of wanting to be a lawyer but let that go since she 'didn't do too much with law in college'
- Did DECA in high school, loved her high school econ class, knew she wanted to do econ in college
- Chose CSEcon over straight bio because she'd already learn the med-school-required bio later; added CS because it's 'a fun application of math' and she felt 'too chicken' to do pure math
- Joined GRC (Brown consulting club) freshman year, grew into leadership; also recruited for finance/investment group but turned down offers once she 'realized I had free will'
- Sticks with consulting because it's dynamic - new project every semester, gets to pitch/sell projects and reach out to companies and nonprofits
- Research background: computational outcomes work on CT surgery/cardiology, completed a cardiac sarcoidosis paper a month before this call, prior project at Penn, work adjacent to (not officially in) the 'selkie lab'
- Started sewing in middle/high school, took a long break, still has a sewing machine and wants to pick up embroidery 'to keep up with it'
- Fell in love with surgery: likes working with her hands, enjoys the OR culture and even finds surgical robots 'so dope'
- Formative memory: as a kid, slept in her mom's radiology reading room during overnight shifts and watched her read cases (including funny ones like swallowed chicken bones)
- Describes rounding on a post-op patient whose kidney was failing and unexpectedly recovered as a moment that confirmed she wanted to do this ('if I could see more people like that, I'd be immeasurably happy')
- Parents are both physicians (radiologist mom, cardiothoracic surgeon dad) but actively discouraged her from medicine - mom told her not to even apply to Brown/PLME

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Brown University (PLME program) — Undergraduate, in progress (approved to graduate a semester early), CSEcon (Computer Science-Economics)

Class of 2028, graduating Dec 2027

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