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Gianna Duszynski

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Hobbies & Interests

  • Coffee
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Driving
  • Fishing
  • Hammocking
  • Legos
  • Neuroscience
  • Poetry
  • Kayaking
  • Psychology
  • Shopping And Thrifting
  • Sleeping
  • Tarot
  • True Crime
  • YouTube

Reading

  • Health
  • Science‎
  • Historical

I read books multiple times a month.

Bio

My name is Gianna Duszynski and I am part of the class of 2029 through Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. I'm double majoring in Neuroscience and Psychology with the goal to obtain my PhD to practice clinical neuropsychological research. My Nonno was diagnosed with dementia before he passed, and my grandmother on my mom's side is starting the slippery slope into Alzheimer's. My family history with these neurological disorders is what made me realize that my passion is studying the human brain and finding ways to fix what can go wrong. I have been working since I was 15 years old in order to save up for college. Through this, I have learned responsibility, time management, and how to balance a job while being in school. Scholarships through Concordia and through external sources (i.e. my high school and FAFSA) have allowed me to continue the education I have always wanted. I have made 4 rescues when working as a life guard, community service (i.e. cleaning up highways, volunteering at food shelters, and working community events). I am trained in CPR, water rescue, first-aid, and food service. I have received CITI certification for the following: - Biosafety and Biosecurity (BSS) - Working With Zebrafish (Danio rerio) in Research Settings - Working with the IACUC - Students in Laboratory Classes Working with Vertebrate Animals - Reducing Pain and Distress in Laboratory Mice and, Rats - Students in Laboratory Classes Working with Vertebrate Animals Thank you for taking the time to review my profile and my application.

Education

Concordia College at Moorhead

Bachelor's degree program

2025 – 2029

Majors:
  • Psychology, General
  • Neurobiology and Neurosciences

Monticello High School - Snw

High School

2021 – 2025

Miscellaneous

Desired degree level:
Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)
Majors of interest:
Research and Experimental Psychology, Neurobiology and Neurosciences
Medical school interest:
No

Career

  • Server

    Restaurants · Veterans of Foreign War Post 8731

    Jan 2025 – Present

  • Server and hostess

    Consumer Services · Perkins American Food Co.

    Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

  • Lifeguard

    Recreational Facilities and Services · Monticello Community Center

    Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

Miscellaneous

Dream career field:
Research
Dream career goals:
Researching neurodegenerative disorders
Has nursing license:
No

Future Interests

  • Advocacy
Minecraft Forever Fan Scholarship
If you could have a superpower, what would it be and why? I have always wanted to travel back in time and relive certain parts of my life, not necessarily to redo anything, but to just live through those memories again. However, going back in time is unrealistic--or is it? Minecraft has an innate ability to send the player back in time simply by playing the game. That is my favorite part about Minecraft: When I play, it feels like I am seven years old in my childhood home playing Minecraft again for the first time. As I scroll through worlds that are years old and go untouched, every memory comes back to me. Memories of seeing how many dogs I could tame to put in my oak wood square house, playing the tutorial world to learn how to craft and build, and being genuinely horrified by the mobs that haunted the nights. The phrase "Time flies when you're having fun" started to make sense to me once I played Minecraft. I would spend hours staring up at my TV chasing the sheep to make my new bed before nightfall, and then next thing I knew hours had passed and I too needed to go to bed. Minecraft absorbed my childhood, shaping many of my memories. Memories of collecting as many mini figure blind boxes as I could, trying to cross-console join games, and playing Minecraft song parodies as I learned how to build inefficient staircases to the second floor of my gravel and oak homes. People will argue that time travel is a figment of the imagination and that society will never be able to reach that level of technology--that it is impossible. Anyone who thinks time travel is unrealistic has obviously never played Minecraft.
John Young 'Pursue Your Passion' Scholarship
There is no shortage of information we can learn from the brain and each other. That is why I have decided to pursue an education to double major in psychology and neuroscience and take that into a research career. To kickstart my learning progress, I am attending Concordia College - Moorhead in the 2025 fall semester. I have been interested in psychology for as long as I can remember because, for my whole life, I have been affected by mental illness in some way. My mother was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder in the early 2000s and my father was diagnosed with General Anxiety Disorder when he was a teenager. Having mental illness run on both sides of my family, affecting my aunts, uncles, and grandparents too, there was no surprise when I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety at 12 years old. Having many personal connections and experiences with mental health, I decided to nose-dive into psychology. During my junior year of high school, I wanted to get a head start so I took College In Schools psychology through the University of Minnesota. This helped solidify my ever-growing love for studying the brain. The reason I want to get into research is because I want to find new ways for people to better understand one another and to learn more about the uniqueness of each brain.
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