March 12, 2013 | This will not be a long post. That might be a bit surprising to hear – after all, after eight weeks working in a new environment, wouldn’t I have a lot to say? And it’s true, I do – the issue is that, much like working with really large numbers, there reaches a appoint where […]

March 8, 2013 | So I’ve hinted at this for a while, but the four buildings at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (also known as Carver College) are all connected by a series of underground tunnels.  Here are those tunnels. Summary and thoughts:  As for actual work, this week was not much different from the rest.  There […]

March 1, 2013 | Friday, Feb. 22. So today is the big day, the one that I’ve been waiting for this entire internship.  Today’s the day I get to see a full-length participant interview for Dr. Dindo’s husband’s (Dr. Calarge) lab.  The opportunity was originally offered to me by Dr. Dindo at this Monday’s meeting, after I had expressed wanting […]

February 22, 2013 | I tried hard to come up with something other than just a summary, but there’s not much in the fifth week that stuck out to me.  This isn’t to say that this is an inherently bad thing, it just means that I’ve gotten more into a solid groove at work (although, as you’ll see next […]

February 15, 2013 | NOTE: My internship site is at the Medical Education Building, I park across from the Biomedical Research Center on the Newton Parking Ramp, and I often will explore the General Hospital.  I’m aware that this can be confusing. Arriving & Leaving/Newton Parking Ramp Interning/Medical Education Building Exploring/General Hospital

February 8, 2013 | Part 1 – What I’ve been doing So I started out week three with three main projects: read and critique the book ACT with love, read some of a seminar transcript (see part 2), and continue my literature search (which I’m pretty far-along in, assuming that what I think a literature search is is actually […]

February 1, 2013 | My second week at the internship was fairly similar to the first – a LOT of reading.  The majority of Dr. Dindo’s staff was scrambling to finish off preparations for a seminar on Saturday that they had been spending the past few months preparing, and so most of my work concerned tasks I was already […]

January 23, 2013 | While there are many ways to describe an experience, I think one of the simplest and most effective ways is to go through that experience day-by-day.  So, without further ado: A Week at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics: Sparknotes Style Monday, Jan. 14:  I arrived after plenty of sleep at the University of […]