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 Tortillería 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...