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Last summer, during the biomedical science class, I noticed that the teachers did not know how to properly focus the glass projector. I ignored it for a few classes, after all the teachers were old and probably had screwed up eye site and the screen probably looked all right to them. After a week I got really irritated. One day I turned to my ( Read more... )

I’ve been interviewing faculty at Hopkins to understand their work, put feelers out for internships, explore jobs for after I graduate, and to practice my schmoozing skills. Yesterday I was scheduled to meet with Anna Durbin, a woman whose research is of particular interest to me. She is running a clinical trial on a tetravalent dengue vaccine. For ( Read more... )

A few months back my father sent me instructions on how to make a non-lethal mouse trap. The design is simple yet ingenious. A ramp leads up to a bucket. The cardboard inside from a toilet paper roll is balance over the edge of the bucket with a piece of food on the far end. In theory, the mouse wanders up the ramp, into the cardboard roll to reach ( Read more... )

This evening I moved my first load of crud into my new house. This is my 7th apartment since leaving Sonora, one for each year away. After the last place I lived, it will have to be pretty exceptional to make it on my amazing apartment list ( Read more... )

When I first arrived in Baltimore I was struck by the repetitive brick apartments, the overwhelming combination of heat and humidity, the extremes of wealth and poverty, the dirtiness of the streets, and the omnipresence of the police force. But now Baltimore is growing on me ( Read more... )

Driving across the US is so much fun. I wish I had a year to criss cross the country with friends on old highways and rural roads. Maybe someday ( Read more... )

My goodbye party was a blast, about forty or so people showed up over the course of the night. About a third of the people were my old Sonora friends, a third were college pals, and the rest were new bay area friends. Everyone was forced to where paper bowties and the sangria flowed freely. I gave the girls their going away present, a blinged out ( Read more... )

I’ve spent the last week traveling around to say farewell to friends and family. I went back packing with John and Nick, visited my parents, Robert’s good bye party, and stopped by Santa Cruz to say farewell to the kids down there. So I’ve been on the road a bit, mostly taking the quick rout on freeways. And that’s where I got hit by a car ( Read more... )

Recently people have been asking me why I have not given them a ride on my motorcycle, Rufus. The answer: you have not asked me. So ask! The two requirements are that you do not get motion sickness to the point of vomiting on my back, and that you do not weigh more than 30 pounds more than me (seriously, it will be hard to maneuver). That means you ( Read more... )