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5 Lessons from 5 Years in Post-Secondary Schools

April 22, 2021April 21, 2021by StuffomaticLeave a Comment

One minute I was moving into my dorm room and getting hissed at by geese, the next, I'm back home and working full-time as a med lab assistant. In a blink of an eye, over 5 years have past and I now find myself with a Bachelors Degree in General Science with a Biology minor [...]

Medical Lab Assistant/Technician, Personal, Scicomm, University

My Journey to be an MLA/T

June 1, 2020March 27, 2021by StuffomaticLeave a Comment

When I was in my third year of university, I had discovered and fallen in love with this amazing scicomm community. At the time I focused my blog and Instagram about my experiences taking bioinformatic and biotech courses, with a bit of insight into sustainability (since I was living away from home at the time) [...]

Personal, University

A Reflection on Undergrad

July 18, 2019June 1, 2020by StuffomaticLeave a Comment

Pursuing an undergrad is a very unique experience that can vary for everyone. Beginning that journey feels like there is a very long road ahead, filled with a number of challenges and achievements. As exciting as it is when ending that journey, it can be a really confusing and overwhelming time. After 4 long years, [...]

Bioinformatics, Biology, University

Assignment story: The CALM1 gene

November 10, 2018November 10, 2018by StuffomaticLeave a Comment

I recently looked at my personal blog and saw that I had an unpublished blog post there that contained a bunch of screenshots and had only one sentence incomplete sentence: "like damn it.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 [...]

Personal, University

Fear of Group Work

September 9, 2018November 9, 2018by StuffomaticLeave a Comment

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 [...]

Coding, Personal, University

Learning to Code

August 22, 2018November 10, 2018by StuffomaticLeave a Comment

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 [...]

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