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...addition to her normal academics, Huang enrolled in many college classes at the University of Delaware. It was at the university that she worked on and found a mentor for her award-winning Westinghouse project that explored the possibility of cleaning polluted water with ultrasonic waves...
...just lucky for a lot of these things," Huang says...
...when Huang arrived at Harvard, her luck began to change. First, near the end of her fall semester, Huang had to change classes because one of her TFs had been making harassing calls to her late at night. Then, right before finals, one of her best friends, Dominic Armijo '95, committed suicide. After filling out a police report and being sent to talk to psychiatrists, Huang was sent home to cope with the death. She also missed two finals which she had to make up in the middle of midterms during the spring semester...
...Huang's bad luck continued. A week before spring finals, Huang found out she had a urinary tract infection. While being treated, which should have been a fairly standard process, Huang experienced complications that led to a kidney infection, excess fluid in her lungs and eye problems. Huang got out of the hospital the night before her first final. Though she hadn't studied, she took her exams because she didn't want to go through taking makeups again...
...Huang says she thought her low grades meant her career aspiration to become a doctor was over, and she contemplated not coming back to Harvard for her sophomore year...