GMI Student Blogs

After a weekend of settling in and drinking coffee, we woke up bright and early to start the next few days of needs finding. Over the past few days, we've been traveling to various hospitals and clinics to perform clinical observations. On Monday, all of our program...

The first half of this week has absolutely flown by! For the past three days, we’ve been taking part in a Needs Finding Workshop, in which we’ve had the opportunity to observe a variety of clinical settings. I was admittedly very nervous about this, as I have never...

Welcome to my second blog post! This will be on the needs finding workshop that we conducted over the past 3 days with Dr. Casey Howard and my group, Group 4. To begin, we all got divided into different groups of 4-5 students, and each group contained one...

Hi everyone! We are all safe and sound here in San José, Costa Rica and have enjoyed a few days of getting settled in the city. We've had some long travel days, but have also explored our hostel and neighborhood and even ventured out of San José for an afternoon. On...

This weekend we organized a trip to Hacienda Alsacia to check out the Starbucks coffee tour. It was exciting to see everyone from the summer program finally together since I wasn't staying with the group at the hostel. As a Costa Rican (Tico) it was exciting for me to...

Hola from Costa Rica - we've finally made it! The past few days have been pretty eventful, between flying in, exploring San Jose, and getting settled in our hostel. Our first day was pretty much just a travel day. I had a 7am flight with Sarah from Chicago to...

So where to begin? Started my journey to Costa Rica early, waking up at 5:30 am to catch a 7:52 am flight after two hours of sleep because I decided to start packing at 1 am. Don't know why I decided that was a good idea, but it happened, and I suffered the...

I can't lie when I say I was worried about spending my summer in Costa Rica. What's life going to be like? Will I get along with the other GMI students? After hopping on my connecting flight from Atlanta to Costa Rica, I was relieved to see a familiar face - it was...

Hi! I have had such a fun start to our Summer - I landed in San Jose around 1:00 pm on Friday (luggage lost in Miami - yay) and was able to get past the hoards of available taxi drivers in the airport to be able to take my (illegal) Uber safely to Selina. The first...