August 20, 2013 | It’s crazy to say that this is my last blog! I’ve had an amazing experience this summer!!! This weekend I got to meet up with Sharon, a recent Cornell graduate! We went to Navy Pier and the view from the top of the Ferris Wheel was amazing!!! She couldn’t believe that I hadn’t had a […]

August 13, 2013 | Fellow in Research This weekend was pretty awesome! On Saturday my suitemate Chelsey and I went to Wicker Park and explored a street festival there. We found a photo booth and had some fun! I got to shadow Dr. McDade, who is an anesthesiologist, at the University of Chicago Hospital on Sunday. I got to […]

August 6, 2013 | Fellow in Research Through my friends on the volleyball team here at the University of Chicago I met a group of students who play sand volleyball! So Saturday of this past weekend I went up to North Avenue Beach and played sand volleyball for a good portion of the day! It was so much fun […]

July 30, 2013 | Fellow in Research This past weekend my family came to visit me in Chicago! Of course we went to Giordano’s for deep dish pizza! We also went to a Cubs vs. Cardinals game. Sadly the Cardinals lost 🙁 Taste of Chicago was going on so we stopped by there before they drove back to Iowa. […]

July 22, 2013 | Fellow in Research I got to visit a high school friend of mine over the 4th of July weekend!!! It was nice to escape the city for a few days and relax in nature!!! On Monday I ran another BCA protein assay to compare the protein concentrations of unstimulated and stimulated exosomal protein from dendritic […]

July 15, 2013 | Fellow in Research Due to the 4th of July holiday this was a little bit of a shorter week. Over the weekend I got to meet up with some Chicago Cornellians, Melinda and Millie, and see the city a little bit! Here we are visiting the “Bean” in Millennium Park! On Monday I got to […]

July 2, 2013 | Fellow in Research Monday of week two was great! First off we worked on de-fatting the cerebellum slides. Being as fat is hydrophobic, it gets in the way of the luxol fast blue staining the myelin. We placed the slides in the luxol fast blue dye overnight. Then I got to watch Aya and Kae […]

June 21, 2013 | So I’ve completely settled into Chicago! Monday I moved in, met Dr. Kraig, and met the other students in my program. Almost everyone in my program plans on applying for medical school or medical and PhD programs. The building with the pink windows is my dorm and the statue marks where the first isolation of […]