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Graduate Profile: Michal Auerbach, 黑料社 All High School for Girls A common spirit runs throughout 黑料社 All: the mandate to matter. Students of all ages and backgrounds come here to pursue a range of professional and personal dreams, from scientific research and medicine to law, Jewish education or public policy. Our students seek to harness their unique talents and YU education to make a lasting impact on the world around them. This spring, when they graduate from YU, these new alumni will hit the ground running. In the weeks leading up to Commencement, YU News will feature one remarkable graduate from each school, reflecting, in their own words, on their time here, their passions and their dreams for the future. Meet the Class of 2013.

YU High School for Girls senior Michal Auerbach hopes to pursue a career in fertility science.

Name: Michal Auerbach School: Samuel H. Wang (Central) Hometown: West Hempstead, New York Passion: Fertility science What experience made the deepest impact on you during your high school career? When I think back on my time at Central, I think of an AP Biology course taught by Mrs. Ruth Fried, one of my teachers. I loved it and I really appreciated the way she taught it, emphasizing how science and religion can work together. Science can be another way to think about how involved G-d is in every facet of everything. There are so many things that could go wrong in a human body but, most of the time, they don鈥檛. That class showed me that G-d is in every detail of human biology, and it鈥檚 important for people to learn as much as they can and interact with His world in an educated way, which is the whole concept of Torah Umadda. That bio class just made me want to learn more and more. How did you decide you wanted to pursue fertility science? Two summers ago I interned at YU鈥檚 . I wasn鈥檛 16 yet, so I couldn鈥檛 be in a real laboratory setting, but I was able to shadow doctors. One day I was following doctors in this fertility clinic in Jacobi Hospital. The way the doctors interacted with their patients, showing such incredible middot [character], and I thought those middot were so important not only in a career but also in day-to-day life. I thought, 鈥楾his is such a cool way to improve people鈥檚 lives.鈥� That鈥檚 when I decided I wanted to become a fertility specialist. What other extracurricular opportunities did you have at Central? I鈥檝e been captain of the debate team since 11th grade. I joined at first because I was pretty shy as a freshman and I wanted to get into speaking out more. I also found debate was a good opportunity to educate myself about everything that鈥檚 going on in the world, because you have to research all these really cool topics. I recently debated on illegal immigration, whether the United States should provide amnesty or not. It鈥檚 so easy to be ignorant about these things otherwise. I鈥檓 pretty sure I want to go into medicine. But this year I also decided to participate in mock trial, because how do I know I don鈥檛 want to be a lawyer? I wanted to see what that was like. So I tried it. Preparing cases was a totally different experience for me鈥� I think what made mock trial such a great experience, though, was that I was completely immersed in that environment鈥攚e were in a real courtroom and I really got a sense of what it would be like. What鈥檚 one of the most important lessons you've learned over the past four years? Something I鈥檝e been working on in myself is patience, because that鈥檚 important in everything. Not everything turns out the way you want it to instantaneously. I鈥檝e been participating in a program called 鈥淪unday Smiles鈥� at Hebrew Academy of Nassau County that鈥檚 taught me a lot about patience鈥攊t鈥檚 a Hebrew school program for children with special needs. Together, despite many difficulties, we鈥檙e able to make beautiful art projects with the kids. The most rewarding experience for me is knowing I helped someone learn the Hebrew letters. Looking back, what achievement or accomplishment are you most proud of? I鈥檓 proud that I was able to participate in so many extracurricular activities and still make the honor roll and balance everything. When I realize how much I鈥檝e done here, I鈥檓 really proud of each experience. I鈥檓 so grateful to have had all these opportunities in high school. I couldn鈥檛 have pursued my interests in science, Torah or anything else to the same extent anywhere else. What will you be doing next year? Next year I鈥檓 going to be studying at Michlelet Mivaseret Yerushalayim and then enrolling in the S. Daniel Abraham Honor鈥檚 Program at . Stern has a lot of connections and opportunities at Einstein. It鈥檚 the right place for me.