New Semester, Here we go

Semester Blog: 1 The semester (and the year) have begun. My class load is reasonable all things considered: a Biostatistics class, a Bioengineering Professional Development class of sorts, and then the two classes related to the GMI program specifically. A brief...

The Second Half – Weeks 7, 8 & 9

For the second half of the internship I had a hard time coming up with things to write every single week – my projects seemed too fragmented to figure out how to reflect on them from an analytical perspective, but now that I am done with that I feel more...

GMI Summer Experience – Week 10

My summer in Costa Rica is over and I am back in the US! It’s been a long and busy summer working at Boston Scientific. Though I’m sad that summer is over, I could not be more excited to be back in Houston! This summer was busy right from week 1 up until week 10....

Week 10: Final Thoughts

We just landed in Houston and with that, my summer in Costa Rica has come to a close. These two and a half months have been full of new experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. I began this summer with only a very limited knowledge of Spanish from a few years of...

Week 10

Week 10 I’m back in Houston. This is my hope for this blog entry: Provide you reader with a true, succinct sense of my time in Costa Rica. The summer was broken into three fundamental parts: Research into potential projects for both the GMI team and future Rice...