eight years is as important as choosing the MD/PhD program. It's that season again when many of my friends are applying to medical school. I think I'm going to keep the number of schools low when the time comes ( Read more... )

travel with after the Oxford term ends! Yay. We're flying from London to Marrakech to spend one night there. Train to Casablanca to spend two nights there. Hopefully the beach will be warm in December. I need to get away from this murky weather. Immediately after flying into Milan from Casablanca, we're taking a train to Venice and we'll spend two ( Read more... )

tea calms me. I have a 3000-word paper due in 10 hours. How many pages is 3000-word you asked? Approximately 12 pages double-spaced. God, I am so screwed. I have only written 1800 words. How am I supposed to do this every 5 days? Pushing all stress asides, I am trying to cut myself from caffeine. Actually, I just don't have a car anymore to drive ( Read more... )

his. Why do I keep this truth to myself? Am I afraid of jeopardizing the friendship? Why is this truth so difficult to utter? Does he want to hear it? Does he want to know that I have secretly like him? Maybe we're better off as friends. I hope the time will come when I am ready to tell him because I owe him at least that much.

it pertains to the psychological sense? Does our deminse extend beyond the physical sense? Is it the passing of the human spirit within a body that is still physically alive? There exists a reciprocal property of death. Death means loss to those left behind and that same loss also serves as our eventual downfall. The psychological dying takes ( Read more... )

the figurative sense are outcomes we bring upon ourselves. This death is the loss of the lives we build for ourselves and it is a product of the choices we make. Why do people commit suicide? Our own death in the form of a shattered life, an escalating sense of ruin that becomes too unbearable to breathe, is usually a precursor to their physical ( Read more... )

starting to come together. Istanbul is out of the question. Kaya has exams and religious holidays throughout December. I have yet to contact Zobair about Safi. I would love to see Amman, but it is a bit unsafe right now to travel to that part of the country. Moreover, I want to travel with people and one of my good friends want to see Rome, Venice ( Read more... )

"Discuss the key cellular and molecular properties of mammalian embryonic stem cells." Some of the readings include key experiments that identify Nanog as a pluripotency-sustaining factor in embryonic stem cell. I will also read on nuclear transfer as a method to generate the differentiation of embryonic stem cell lines.

7-8 pages.

opportunity to love someone. It's not that I don't want to be vulnerable, I'm just scared of the lingering disappointment and resentment ( Read more... )

nervous about my Oxford tutorial on Stem Cell Biology. The tutorial will be jointly taught by two fellows, which is unusual. One of them has a research background in embryonic stem cells and the directed differentiation of embryonic stem cells to particular tissues. She focuses on the potential immune responses that arise following transplantation ( Read more... )