Greetings Dear Readers,
If you live anywhere within continental United States, you are no doubt informed of the rippling snowstorm spreading across the country. Some citizens even experiencing snow for the first time, like many Texas residents who had the pleasure of receiving a whole foot of the stuff dumped on to their unsuspecting roads and houses. In Washington, DC, where I live the majority of the year, we experienced the worst snowstorm in 200 years. A storm powerful enough to shut down the roads, metro, schools and even the United …
From the SATs to the MCAT and the Boards exams, I’ve been a career student. Tests have become a way of life, in a way. (Is that sad?) From multiple-choice to essay to true/false to oral exams, tests have been the predictable pacemakers of my career from high school through college, from college to medical school and graduate school.
In honor of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson sailing into New York’s waters, the New York Public Library presents a beautiful selection of maps spanning the 17th through 21st centuries – ranging from maps that Hudson would have used, to a dynamic satellite map supported by Google. The collection offers an overview of the region’s earliest exploration and how maps of the region have changed through the years.
The NYPL is home to one of the largest and most well used map collections in the world, according to my enthusiastic …
I have only one more test left in med school!
Well, I should qualify that: it’s the last test of my pre-clinical years. (The first two years are called pre-clinical because we don’t see much of the clinical side, because we don’t really know too much.) So, for two years we sit mostly in lectures, labs, small groups, and the library, learning the basics of human biology and illness. The cycle is predictable: three weeks of cramming, test, repeat. In our last block Life Cycle (our curriculum is organized by topic or organ system), we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Greetings, Dear Readers.
Now, I understand given this is talkingscience.org, so there is an argument to be made that this blog post could be deemed “inappropriate” or “off topic.” However, recent events in the circus that is the American political world have injected me with what can only be described as an adrenaline rush equivalent of ridiculousness. So, given the thousands of universities that now offer political science as a major as my justification, as well as the fact that the Democrats are pro-science, I will now analyze for you the …
The perception in society is that today’s teenagers are more able than ever to take on the pressures of daily life and be successful, and for most of us, that seems to be the case. But what happens when this façade is lifted? A new study showed that five times as many high school and college students suffer from anxiety and other mental health issues as people of the same age did during the Great Depression. Five times! Five universities participated in the study, analyzing Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) …
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