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Week 1

Jun. 15, 2012—The end of my first week at the lab and a short re-cap of what happened.

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The Very First Day

Jun. 11, 2012—Today, I started my first day as a Summer Research Undergraduate Student Assistant Worker. The adventure begins…

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Why Vanderbilt?

Mar. 27, 2012—Every once in a while I reminisce back to those wonderful (ha!) months of high school during which I googled different universities every day, wrote personal statements, and stressed about SAT scores…maybe more so now because soon I will have to do the same thing to apply to graduate school…and I remember discussions I had...

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Quality of Life?

Feb. 9, 2012—The other day in my “Environment, health: the real issues” course, we talked about how the perception of what quality of life means is different from person to person. For example, people in industrial cities tend to talk about pollution and green spaces as taking away from or improving, respectively, their quality of life whereas...

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Tortellini Tuesday Revisited: An Insider’s View

Nov. 30, 2011—Last year, one of my friends and fellow bloggers, Ryan, wrote about Tortellini Tuesday. In fact, he even mentioned me! It’s because I work for Vanderbilt Dining to fulfill my work study allotment.

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