Check, 10 questions for Bruce "Gene Thug" Lahn. Check this player's ambitions out:
10. Looking back, would you make any changes in your educational path? If so, what?Looking back, I might have chosen economics instead of biology, as it might have allowed my work to have a broader impact. But it's a tossup, and my feeling may well have stemmed from my constant impatience with lack of progress in my own work and therefore the perception that grass is greener on the other guy's pasture
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