One of the most prominent accomplishments of my high school career was a science article I wrote during my junior and senior year correlating air travel with the spread of infectious disease entitled, A Novel and Practical Proposal to Alleviate a Long-standing Problem: The Spread of Infectious Disease During Commercial Air Travel. During the time of its writing, I encountered multiple obstacles that strengthened me as a person, making me more resilient, confident, and sociable — I had to increase my knowledge within the fields of aviation and epidemiology, learn how to conduct an unbiased KAP survey, talk and persuade people holding notable positions within the scientific community that the problem was real and significant, and write an article on par with research papers seen on noteworthy science journals. The project strengthened my interest in Preventive Medicine, and I hope to receive an IRB and continue writing it throughout my college career.