Essays for students in the sciences
In the summer of 2014, I worked at the National Institutes of Health in the lab of Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, where I developed a protocol that raised plasmid yield from 300-700 ng/µl to 1,000-5,000 ng/µl. I was an undergraduate with no advanced degree, and the postdocs and staff scientists deferred to me whenever I knew a technique better than they did. That summer decided me on a career in research. If I were writing about it now, I would keep the postdocs and cut the yield figures.
Essays by science students often read as methods sections. The procedure is clear and the reader never learns why the author cared. Research mostly consists of things that do not work, and the failed attempt is often a better place to start than the result.
I will catch an inaccurate claim about your research, and I will tell you when you have explained more than a reader outside your field needs. I also studied philosophy alongside biochemistry, so I am happy to read an essay that has nothing to do with science. You do not have to write about it; your transcript already shows what you have studied.
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