Blog Post 4: Wait…Casados + Tortillas = ?!

Hello and welcome back to another one of my weekly blog posts! Let’s jump straight into business shall we? Jade Museum and La TortillerĂ­a Over the weekend, Haruto and Vanessa ubered down to San Jose, and then as an entire group we visited the Museum of Jade in...

Blog Post 2: Bootcamp Recap and Finally Trying POPS

This week, we went to UCIMED and immersed with other Costa Rican engineering students through a BioDesign Medical Innovation Bootcamp. The UCIMED campus was very pretty; it was located on a hilly terrain and you could see the mountains across the road from UCIMED. As...

Blog Post 1: Welcome to Costa Rica!

Hola! My name is Laurel Chen, and welcome to my first blog post, where I touch upon our cohort’s arrival in Costa Rica, and the first few days of our trip. As a brief introduction, I recently graduated from Rice University with a major in Bioengineering and a...