Week 11:
Self-Reflection
August 4, 2021 | This week I did a lot of self-reflection. Throughout this internship, I have been trying to figure out where this opportunity will take me in life. I have learned a lot about what my passions are and how I plan to pursue them. I initially thought I wanted to pursue a field in US Fish […]
Week 7:
The Ideal of representative power, and the idea of goodbye!
August 4, 2021 | Jeffrey Stouts, in his book Blessed are the Organized, writes about a critical, foundational and passionate idea of power. This is pragmatic authority utilized towards the betterment of the authorized and the one authorizing. But it isn’t ordained by birth, skin color, or religious sect. It’s the kind of authority that is ‘earned’ over others. […]
Week 9:
Writing COVI-SWA and the Full Whipple with Reconstruction
August 4, 2021 | Olivia, Dr. St Louis, and I at this week’s Journal Club Week 8 was devoted to quite a bit of shadowing and actually getting to write the COVI-SWA study methods, introduction, and results in sections. In journal club, we discussed a publication that delved into the neurological mechanisms underlying the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis. In […]
Week 8:
We’ve come so far but we’ve got so far to go!!!
August 4, 2021 | Wow! This was my final week in the Big Apple!!!! I can’t believe that the time went by so quickly, but you may see me back here sooner than you’d think 😉 This week I had more appointments at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) division […]
Week 9:
The End
August 4, 2021 | Things have really picked up here in my last week. Over these last few days, I have been busy attending training sessions, meetings, company events, and finishing my project. Early in the week, Microtek hosted a customer service and communication training session for any employee that wanted to attend. I joined in with hopes of […]
Week 10:
Frenzied Byes
August 4, 2021 | This is my last week here in South Carolina. The workweek was mostly the same, but with the added stress of packing and doing an online class. It has been a great experience being here. I got to do things that I never had the opportunity to do before, like working in the lab and […]
Week 10:
Bittersweet Goodbye
August 4, 2021 | My last week in Dr. Yuan’s laboratory was the end of an experience for me but the start of something new for the lab. I continued working on my previous experiment. It looks as though all our samples will be completed by next week by the other lab members. As I prepared to leave Blacksburg, […]
Week 8.5:
Final Week!
July 28, 2021 | Last Few Days of Working My final week was spent like most of the rest. My one day in person, I worked on helping to organize another filing cabinet of our collection items. The rest was spent cataloging a small collection of items from a fraternal organization. My favorite part of cataloging these items that […]
Week 10:
Training Tigerhawk
July 28, 2021 | This week I spent a lot of time training Tigerhawk, the Peregrine Falcon. The person who trains raptors is known as a falconer. Falconers participate in falconry, which is when people use birds of prey to hunt for them. This is similar to how people use dogs for hunting. For example, the falconer will flush […]
Week 9:
Freezers and the Devil’s Bathtub
July 27, 2021 | This week in the lab, I continued working on my previous experiment and took care of some housekeeping around our lab. We ran into some trouble with the freezers storing all of our samples, so a few other lab members and I worked to quickly move everything to another freezer. This created a new hurdle […]