Week 7:
Passing Milestones
July 8, 2021 | This week I passed a few milestones, and I feel great about everything I have learned so far. My week started with being in charge of a program on-site with a small family. I gave the family a tour and presented a couple raptors. After the program, I trained a volunteer on tier 4 raptors. […]
Week 6:
New Raptor
July 8, 2021 | This week was crazy! We started to get a mew ready for our new raptor, which is a full-grown golden eagle. This eagle came to us from Bramble Zoo in South Dakota. He has an injured wing and needed a place for additional rehabilitation to be released back into the wild. This eagle will be […]
Week 4:
Don’t Rain On My Parade
July 8, 2021 | It was a hot and rainy week in New York, and things at Stella Adler have really started to pick up in intensity now that we have passed the halfway point. Our teachers are pushing and challenging us as we enter the final stretch of the program! I was thankful to wake up Monday […]
Week 3:
I Know Things Now (Little Red from Into The Woods)
July 8, 2021 | It’s hard to believe that I have been in New York for over three weeks. It still feels like I just got here! The time is really flying by! This week, we continued working on our scenes. Chloe and I ran through our scene and song from Wicked a few times before performing for our […]
Week 5:
Breaking Ground on COVI-SWA
July 8, 2021 | At the outset of week 5, we continued scoring the challenging NAPS or North American Prodromal Synucleinopathy Consortium files from McGill University sleep studies. Now that I have passed the Gold Standard, I can score these official, de-identified sleep studies from which data will be published in future RBD NAPS Consortium studies. I began drafting […]
Week 4:
The Gold Standard
July 8, 2021 | Scoring de-identified practice PSGs to prep for the Gold Standard Week four at Mayo Clinic started off with us interns completing the remaining training file polysomnograms or PSGs and one extra Multiple System Atrophy or MSA patient training file. Our scoring master Tyler and our PI doctor St Louis reviewed these files and told […]
Week 5:
Feeling Accomplished
June 24, 2021 | After this week I am feeling accomplished! To be qualified to handle raptors and do programs on my own, I had to pass the written exam, which I did! This also means I am now able to train my coworker on handling the larger raptors. I am practicing handling the different raptors so I feel […]
Week 3:
The Real Deal
June 24, 2021 | Goodbye training wheels! This week I made the transition from practice materials to real components. In this transition, I also moved away from SMT and focused mainly on die-attach. Die-attach requires three steps: first, a thin layer of epoxy is spread across a substrate; second, a die is aligned and applied to the substrate; and […]
Week 2:
The Lullaby of Broadway
June 24, 2021 | This week has been super wonderful and at the same time really intense! I feel myself learning so much, and I can’t believe this is only the end of the second week! Movement and Body Awareness I really enjoyed what we did in Movement Techniques and in Voice and Speech classes this week! We did […]
Week 4:
Worth Every Minute
June 23, 2021 | Valuable Long Nights This week, the lab and I concluded sample collections for this round of the current rotavirus vaccine study. The next round of the same study will begin in August, and in the meantime, we will be analyzing the samples we have taken. This week was full of long hours and […]