Week 3:
Meals, Leadership Networking, and Reading Citizen’s Responsibilities
July 9, 2021 | There are different kinds of ways to organize, bad and good, effective and ineffective. It ranges from civic organizing to community organizing and broad-based organizing. But experience has delivered with judicial confidence that broad-based organizing remains significantly more appealing, sustainable, and powerful in leveraging the power and securing the interests of the citizens. The kind […]
Week 2:
Service and Outreach, Relational Power, and Not Winning Too Quickly!!!
July 9, 2021 | This week has been particularly exciting, challenging, and empowering. As I have now settled into my new role, understood my responsibilities, and am performing my duties. I have started experiencing grassroots organizing. And Reveille for a New Generation by Gregory Pierce has been my academic guide into the formal and informal interactions I have experienced […]
Week 7:
Reading Sensor Research
July 9, 2021 | Monday morning was spent saying goodbye and helping my friend pack up her belongings. We rarely get to see each other in person, so it is always sad when we have to say bye. We got McDonald’s for breakfast, the most nutritious breakfast one can have. Then, we started the drive to Hilton Head. It […]
Week 6:
In The Routine of Things
July 9, 2021 | If you haven’t caught on by now, my weeks are in a generally set routine, for the most part. It starts off with working on the sensor and then moves to working on the covid lab. It usually ends with working on the sensor again. This week just like the last few, was pretty much […]
Week 6:
Making Progress
July 8, 2021 | Some Trial and Error As I have described before, the Yuan laboratory I have been working in this summer does research on rotavirus vaccines. On top of that amazing work, Dr. Yuan and her lab also work on norovirus vaccines. Norovirus causes symptoms similar to rotavirus, including diarrhea and vomiting, fever, stomach pain, and more. […]
Week 5:
Exploring and Some Data
July 8, 2021 | Work Hard This week I began testing the large number of samples I had taken last week. The lab and I began by analyzing the data from some of the samples we tested during our sample collection. I had the opportunity to practice analyzing antibody ELISPOT assay plates. This test is done to mark antibody-producing […]
Week 5:
A Bump in the Road
July 8, 2021 | Early this week, my project hit a road bump. Initially, we thought we had the materials I would need to get started, but that was not the case. Luckily, we made this discovery early in the week, so we had plenty of time to discuss alternative options. After talking with Tri, we determined that it […]
Week 4:
Practice Makes Perfect
July 8, 2021 | Growing up, my mom used to quote her high school track coach; she’d say, “proper preparation prevents poor performance.” Proper preparation has definitely been the theme of the past few weeks. Since I started working in the production room, I’ve been learning and practicing SMT and die attach techniques. Ultimately, all this practice aims to […]
Week 6:
Giant Suction Cups and Organizing
July 8, 2021 | Flood Waters Most of the week in person was spent organizing the museum’s institutional archive. It has been a pretty messy system of the museum’s history since 1993. It was not too bad since I enjoy these types of organizational projects. It was definitely made more difficult that everything before 2008 had been damaged from […]
Week 5:
R&R (for archival items, that is)
July 8, 2021 | Investigating Details of Iowa’s Past This week was interesting as I got to see a new side of the curatorial process that I hadn’t learned about yet. My first day in person was organizing some archival filing cabinets for a bit, and then the rest of it was spent internet stalking people. It sounds ridiculous […]