-: My name is Melissa Olds,
and I work at Dow AgroSciences as a formulation chemist.
If you can participate in extra-curricular activities
that highlight your leadership skills
and other transferrable skills that could apply
to a role later on.
Even if there's something that,
a type of extra-curricular that maybe
wouldn't even necessarily pertain to a scientific role,
certainly seek it out,
because it could highlight skills
that could pertain to a scientific role in the future.
And definitely participate in those.