A House of One's Own

Remembering his time as a Harvard undergraduate, Senan Ebrahim jokingly describes himself as an undifferentiated stem cell. “I was considering a number of different careers and academic fields,” the MD/PhD student in neuroscience explains. Then a resident of Quincy House, Ebrahim turned to the House’s tutors. “They had such a wide range of expertise and part of the way I decided what to do was through conversations with them and by shadowing them.” One tutor, Nicolas Gonzalez Castro, now the chief neurology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), played a particularly important role. “It was through meeting him and other physicians that I decided that the path of a physician-scientist is what I wanted to do.”

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