Well, this is my old professor's work, although he involves me a fair bit, so yea.

As for the ultimate goal, I find biology, and science in general very interesting. In my free time I mostly read text-books. As bad as it sounds, that's me. I would like to go into the field of neuroscience after college, so while I find this interesting, if I wanted to assign a more pragmatic goal to this I could say that a positive recommendation from my professor would drastically improve my chances of getting into a good Md/PhD program.