Week 3:
Step Up or Step Aside
June 19, 2022 | This week was one of a kind. As you see in the image above, I officially became the temporary event specialist. I was given the news on Monday and, therefore, it was a pleasant start to the week. This meant that my hard work was paying off and my boss could see that I am […]
Week 1:
The Journey West to the Land of Giants
June 18, 2022 | THE GOLDEN GOOSE During my first week at the Incubator space known as Aquillius Corporation, it was important for me to reaffirm my vision that seizing this opportunity was akin to seizing the beating wings of a Golden Goose. So with much joy, I am pleased to confirm with you that the chance I was […]
Week 4:
Behind the Scenes
June 18, 2022 | This past week has been quite a roller coaster ride for our brown shrimp experiment. Over the past couple of weeks, Matt, Robert, Willa, and I have been preparing the seawater lab for our shrimp experiment, and on Friday we officially started! Initially, it was our intention to start our 15-day experiment earlier in the […]
Week 2:
The Gold Standard
June 18, 2022 | This week was all about preparing for the assessment of REM sleep without atonia (RSWA) scoring from polysomnograms (PSGs). The Gold Standard is an assessment used to judge readiness to score patient PSGs to determine RSWA severity for the analysis we are doing between narcolepsy and RSWA. In preparation for the Gold Standard, we used […]
Week 2:
Training File…
June 18, 2022 | This past week flew by! Similarly to coursework on the Block Plan, everyone was working incredibly hard to finish all of the RSWA training files by the end of the week. I had so much fun learning from my mistakes to become a better scorer. In fact, we all did. All of the hard work […]
Week 5:
Warming Up
June 18, 2022 | With highs in the upper 90s and several days reaching over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, it was a very warm week here in St. Louis! We spent the majority of the week working around the heat as we collected data for the Saint Louis Box Turtle Project. We started each day of tracking earlier in the […]
Week 4:
A Star is Born
June 11, 2022 | All species that are part of an ecosystem are important to its overall health and balance. Perhaps the most intriguing part of an ecosystem are the animals at the top of the food chain. Animals like lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are among the most charismatic animals that people care about. However, the importance of […]
Week 3:
A View From Above
June 11, 2022 | After an unorthodox second week, it felt great to return to the lab and really get back into the swing of things. I started off the week by helping out with some fieldwork out in Winyah Bay, where we spent the majority of the day trawling four different sites. After each trawl, we identified and […]
Week 2:
Just Keep Swimming
June 11, 2022 | This week presented some great learning opportunities, and I am thankful to the senior employees who have made a conscious effort to teach me new skills so when they delegate tasks, I would complete them with more efficiency. I start an average workday going through emails and replying to clients. Those emails mostly consist of […]
Week 1:
Going Back to Basics
June 11, 2022 | I arrived in Rochester to my residence for the next 10 weeks in a rainstorm at night. Happily, the morning perfectly juxtaposed the previous night, sunny and a perfect setting for what would be an enlightening first week at the Sleep and Neurophysiology Lab at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. I found a room […]