Eileen Rodríguez Tapia, PhD

Eileen Rodríguez-Tapia, PhD| Eileen completed her graduate studies in the Graduate Neurosciences Program at Michigan State University. She is currently Assistant Profesor at Universidad del Turabo.

"To any student that intends to accept the challenge and that has to make a decision I would tell you to take it and to give yourself the opportunity to grow up and to learn even more. If you're uncertain in terms of doing an MD or a PhD, this experience will have high probabilities of helping you decide; and for any decision that you make it will make you a stronger candidate.  Remember that you will get to know new professors and mentors that could give you excellent recommendation letters. 

You can learn so much from this experience that when you look back you will surprise yourself of everything that you have learned and accomplished.  You will work very hard, I will not say that it was easy because it was not, but you see the end product and that is very gratifying.  

​So, to any fortunate student that is offered this opportunity, take it, because now that I have been accepted into the Neuroscience Grad program, I know that it has been one of the smartest and most productive decisions I have made."