Artist + Med Lab Assistant
Over the part couple of weeks I’ve become more interested in environmentalism and sustainability. You hear a lot about this topic on social media like going to a zero-waste lifestyle, minimalism, switching to a vegetarian/vegan diet etc. etc. And I’ve been seeing this a lot more recently on my social media feed. Maybe it’s because [...]
First post of 2019! Horray! I've been reflecting the past two days on what I want to do career-wise moving forward into this new year, and who I want to be by the end of 2019. I wanted to share with you what I've been thinking of. Academic life This year will be my last [...]
The ease of connecting and reaching out to people around the world has drastically increased over the years with the rise of social media. One of the things that have grown along with social media is the ability for scientists to talk to the general public, or as I see it: the rise of science [...]
[Sidenote: I didn't realize how much I was holding onto. This post is a lot longer and more personal than my ones before, but I guess it's good for me to think about this subject and my personal experience with it] Growing up as the first born child of an immigrant family, expectations for me [...]
I haven't had much group work experience during my undergrad studies so far. Disregarding lab partner work, there was really only two instances of group work I can think of, and those moments were back in my first year. The first one a group research and presentation (on peroxisomes), and the second instance was just [...]
From May to August, I learned how to functionally code using DrRacket. Functional programming: "treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data." I found it really interesting to code. I found myself constantly pushing myself to remember the built-in tools we learned in class, and the multiple ways we [...]
After years of being a student, this coming September will be my last year here at UW - finishing my Bachelors in Science with minor in biology, and I don't know what I want to do afterwards. I've been thinking a lot about self growth and what I want future me to look like. Watching [...]
At the beginning of the year I decided to take a 6-hour molecular biology lab course for the winter term, and damn it was tough. As someone who still struggles with time management, and balancing work and school life, it was difficult to keep up. We had roughly 3-6 exercises/ experiments each week and had [...]
I've never felt so connected with this meme: I laugh at it so much because I understand what it's like to work so hard and yet get a negative result, but actually performing PCR and getting a negative result... I still laugh but I'm crying on the inside. I performed my first PCR experiment for [...]
It's hard to start habits, particularly good ones (i.e. studying everyday). It's also hard keeping to a schedule that you set up for yourself at the beginning of the month, or week, or even for the day. Back in July I started this blog as a side thing for me to do on my [...]
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