Artist + Med Lab Assistant
Two years ago I posted a little blog post talking about my feelings and excitement in taking a 6-hour molecular biology lab course. I mentioned it once afterwards, then never again. So here’s a summary of what we did, how I felt during the course, and afterwards! This course comprised of one 2.5 or 3 [...]
On my recent trip to the Philippines, my cousin brought us to a place called San Juan By the Bay in Santa Rita, Samar; a scenic spot that includes a boardwalk, a floating restaurant, a beautiful view of the San Juanico Bridge and mangrove restoration project (https://www.choosephilippines.com/specials/history-and-culture/4324/san-juanico-bridge-boardwalk). As we walked along the boardwalk towards the [...]
Intro: I remember in my grade 11 biology class our teacher brought us to the little forest behind our school. She told us that we were going to carefully collect leaves from specific plants and identify them. From all the leaves we had to collect and identify, the one I remembered the most was the [...]
When I went to the Philippines 9 years ago, dengue fever was a big concern for my mom. She constantly had my sister and I cover ourselves in mosquito repellent in order to minimize our chances of getting the virus. That memory stuck with me and has now lead me to investigate the dengue virus [...]
I recently looked at my personal blog and saw that I had an unpublished blog post there that contained a bunch of screenshots and had only one sentence incomplete sentence: "like damn it. why did my gene have to be so awesome and conserved?????" I thought it may be more relevant placing this entry here [...]
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 [...]
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