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Somehow I managed to sleep for twelve hours last night. I thought I’d take a “short nap” at around 8 PM, and basically ended up waking at 8 AM this morning. Huh. Oh, also it’s Rapture Day. Having made a similar mistake more than a hundred years ago, Seventh-Day Adventists know what to do. Anyway, [...]

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My bag of mini Nilla wafers contained one that was in the process of dividing when it was fixed (baked). The specimin allowed me to complete an informative and delicious diagram.

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While waiting for my turn on the confocal microscope I did a little advanced imaging of my own. I took this with picplz but so far I’m not too “plzed” with how they deal with the images. Equating caption and title isn’t all that great, although the effects are kind of fun.

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One thing we got introduced to when we moved out here was boba tea, a delicious blend of tea, milk, and little balls of tapioca (the boba). You drink it carefully through a large straw and try to make the boba last until you finish the tea.
We went after our exam today to [...]

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The lab I decided to stay in is just getting started at LLU, so right now it’s just me and the PI, Dr. Salvador Soriano. Since there wasn’t any ongoing research in the lab when I got there, the experiments we’re planning out are going to be my thesis. While the opportunity is tremendous, it’s [...]

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This is what happens when we get out of class early but still have another class, so there’s not enough time to do anything else.

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Having lived here less than a year, I’m not entirely confident that I’m qualified to comment on the Southern California environments. However, I would imagine that it is in these first months that the differences between “here” and “there” – that is to say, Maryland – are the most salient, and are thus a fine [...]

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A bunch of us went to the beach this weekend, because we live in SoCal and we can. Great times with some good company! Of course, Rachel was one of the few who went all the way into the water – child’s play for  a girl who goes swimming in the ocean during Maryland’s winter.

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This morning I turned in the take-home portion of my biochem final exam, the last of my assignments for the quarter. That’s one quarter down…only thirty one more to go. I’m also wrapping things up with my first research rotation. When school starts back up on January 3rd I’m going to be switching from traumatic [...]

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Perhaps as a result of Loma Linda University being a private graduate school (and the increased tuition income that allows), the Student Association’s Christmas party this week was fantastic. In addition to folks spending Monday through Thursday wrapping every vertical object near the party area with lights, they brought in snow. [...]

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