Well, I have to say, I did not like chemistry in high school, so I did not think about going to college to study chemistry.

我在高中时一点都不喜欢化学,所以我去大学,更本就没考虑过学化学。

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And I said to my advisor, "No, no. I have taken chemistry in high school, and I can assure you that chemistry has no relevance whatsoever to the life sciences."

于是我就去和我导师说：,“我在高中学过化学，我向你保证化学和生命科学,没有任何关联“

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I have the freedom to pass that person because I like the trend. Suppose I have somebody else who came here with two years of chemistry in high school, got a 95 on the first test, 70 on the second test, failed the third test, failed the final, has an aggregate score of 48.

我能够选择让那人通过,因为我喜欢他的进步，假设另一个同学,学了2年的化学在高中,第一次测试得到95分，第二次70分，第三次没通过，期末考也没通过。

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That didn't happen to me -- once I got into the lab, I didn't want to leave. So, I thought, "You know what, I think I'll change the medical school plans and now I'm going to go all the way -- chemistry major, chemistry grad school."

这很好，但我不是这样，我一进入到实验室就不想离开了，所以我想“你知道吗,我想把我学习医学的计划改成化学-,我要学化学专业，读化学研究生“

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So, why did I not like chemistry in high school?

为什么我高中不喜欢化学？

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And I, like hopefully some of you in this room, discovered that chemistry was actually a lot of fun, and that the chemistry I got in college was pretty much nothing like the chemistry I had seen in high school.

这不是因为喜欢，而是被强迫的，但我希望在座的各位中,有人能发现化学的乐趣,大学学的化学课程和高中完全不一样。

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My roommate for many years was going to medical school as I was going to graduate school, and we found we had so many interesting conversations about chemistry -- her from the context of practicing and using medications and talking about how they worked on a molecular level, and me talking about my research.

让你们读医学预科的人都转行,我多年的室友在我去读研究生的时候，去了医学院,我发现我们对于化学有过很多有趣的交谈,她会说如何应用药物,如何在分子层面上让它们工作，我则说关于我的研究。

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