Fall 3: Cutting Red Tape and Tossing Pies

Fall 3: Cutting Red Tape and Tossing Pies

Another month has come and gone since my last blog post, but it seems like only yesterday that we were getting back from Brazil. PalliAssist, my palliative care app, has faced primarily logistic obstacles over the past month. The next step is to conduct a clinical...
Fall 2: Back from Barretos

Fall 2: Back from Barretos

A lot of the work I did at the beginning of this month involved implementing some improvements to PalliAssist, the app I am developing for palliative care providers in Brazil. As I mentioned in previous posts, the only legitimate programming I had done before this...
Fall 1: New Challenges

Fall 1: New Challenges

The fall semester is underway! Now that we are no longer in Costa Rica, I plan to update this blog every month with experiences and challenges from my coursework. Classes started toward the end of August, but just as we were starting to get up to speed, Hurricane...
End-of-Summer Reflections

End-of-Summer Reflections

Our time in Costa Rica has come to an end. We have returned to Houston, and are preparing to begin our Fall classes. This week, on top of my typical summary of the past week’s activities, I’ve also included some end-of-summer reflections to sum up my time in the...

Week 10: Wrapping Up

If you remember from Week 9, the nonstandard orders we were using to conduct our experiment were finally supposed to begin production this Monday. I arrived early Monday morning to ensure everything ran smoothly, only to find out that a problem came up over the...