I was working on my assignments, and if you had seen me, you would've thought I'd transformed into a camel. I was so bent over my paper, hunched like a question mark with my pen as my guiding exclamation point.

My friends would have teased me about looking like a dedicated archaeologist trying to unearth ancient secrets, but instead, I was just trying to unearth the secrets of microbes.

My back protested, making me wish I could slap a "Caution: Camel at Work" sign on myself. Still, I soldiered on, driven by a mix of determination and the knowledge that my dedication to this humpbacked posture would pay off in the end.