GMI Student Blogs

     Welcome back to my Drop Access blog everyone! Over the past week, I presented at the Drop Access Visit Day for Rice University iSEED students, used SolidWorks to redesign the walls of the VacciBox refrigerator, and helped the production team prepare for the...

Welcome back Y'all, I recently wrapped up my third week here in Costa Rica and at Resonetics! I am setting into a nice routine here during the week that consists of waking up around 7 or so and leaving by 8. The day goes by fast and I leave work anywhere around 5:30...

Hello hello everyone! Today marks the beginning of my 4th week at Hospital Nacional de Niños; this week Dr. Bogantes is seeing admitted patients and we'll be following him around different wards in the hospital, so I'm looking forward to having a change of pace. Today...

Welcome back! Week 3 at Niños is done and we are still doing clinical observations! A fun fact I learned this week is that neuro-imaging is required for  all epilepsy patients, whether that be a CT or an MRI scan. This is required to have on file, but only has to be...

Starting off this week's post with the leisure activities for a change: on Saturday, Rei, Alex, and I went to visit a local animal sanctuary full of rescues that is only a 2 minute drive away from our Apartotel. We saw many different species of rescues and learned...

Welcome back y'all! During my 4th week at Medevice, I continued working on the circuit simulations for my pulse oximeter design. I have gotten to test different layouts and circuit components to determine how my prototype should function. In addition, I was able to...

Hi everyone! I am starting my fifth week here at Medevice. At the end of the week, we will be pretty much at the halfway point of our experience. This past week at work, I spent the majority of my time working on the SolidWorks for my preliminary prototype. After many...

Hello everyone! I have wrapped up my 3rd week at Hospital de Amor, which means I am one-third of the way there! On Monday, we spoke with one of our mentors here in the hospital and explained our plan for the rest of our time here in the hospital. In last week's post,...

This week was all about selecting a project to help Hospital de Amor. However, after seeing the time we had left and all the amazing research projects we could not just pick one project. We decide that the most helpful thing we could do for the hospital was to pick...