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Hello! My name is India Kato(she/her) and I am currently a student at Ada Developer's Academy in Cohort 14. Before discovering coding, I studied biology at the University of Washington with the intent of becoming a doctor. After graduation, I started working at the Allen Institute for Brain Science as a Research Associate. I studied the visual cortex and, in particular, the neural circuits associated with visual learning in mice. As I worked, I began to realize that I did not want to further pursue life sciences. At first, it was defeating to discover that the career that I had invested so much time and energy into was ultimately not the right fit for me. Luckily, my realizations led me to programming! As I worked with engineers on experimental workflows, I became mesmerized with the idea that writing small words on a computer screen could p