August 13, 2022 | The day this summer has been leading up to is finally here… It’s the end of my internship at Mayo Clinic. Week 10 was by far the hardest yet most rewarding week of my experience. I truly found myself wishing I had more time to spend in the lab with the friends I made. While […]

August 6, 2022 | This week was bittersweet as it was Nolan and Dalin’s last. We were finishing up scoring files, helping out with other projects, and running statistics most of the time; and at others, we were spending time together before we all go our separate ways. Our going away celebrations brought so many new memories that it […]

August 6, 2022 | Looking back at my first week at Mayo, I am in awe at how differently I feel about the experience. I went from nervous, uncertain, and shy to looking forward to going into the lab every day, confidence in the projects I worked on, more confident in my career trajectory, and a gain of great […]

August 6, 2022 | It was a great last week out here at the Baruch Marine Laboratory! It’s a bit surreal now that it’s actually my last week, but it’s been yet another really productive one. On Monday morning, Isabel and I went out into the marsh and collected the crab pitfall traps for the last time. Although I’ve […]

July 30, 2022 | It was an amazing and wild final week working at the Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine! We started to work on Monday preparing supplies for next round of microbiome sampling. We created labels for the 195 cryotubes used to hold swab samples and pipetted autoclaved molecular biology grade water into a sterile tubes. […]

July 30, 2022 | It was another successful week out here at Baruch!  Monday was definitely the busiest day of the week for me. Levi, a Ph.D. student here at the lab had asked me a while back about potentially helping him with some of his dissertation fieldwork, and of course, I jumped on the opportunity. His dissertation focuses […]

July 30, 2022 | The internship may be closing next week, but there was definitely no shortage of work to do this week. If I had sum up this week in a cute little package, it would be that this week was a review of all previous seven weeks put together, compiling all the tasks that we have worked […]

July 30, 2022 | Happy Week 8! This past week, everyone learned so much, especially at journal club. The topic was electroencephalograms (or EEG for short)! A German psychiatrist named Hans Berger is credited with the invention of the EEG. Dr. St. Louis shared that in the early days of the EEG, it was used to assess strokes and […]

July 29, 2022 | Yes, indeed, I would categorize my time in Chicago as an adventure. I learned and experienced a lot during these eight weeks, enjoying myself while I was at it. Getting to work at Amazing Edibles was a treat partially because it was my first work experience. I know I have gained an edge over those […]

July 23, 2022 | To start off the week, I spent all of Monday and Tuesday out on the water conducting the monthly otter trawls in Winyah Bay. After each trawl, we sorted and measured every individual we caught which was really interesting. On Monday, we ended up catching a sturgeon, which is really rare to see in our […]