GMI Student Blogs
Blog Post 1 – The Journey Begins
About Me Hello! I’ve never written a blog before, but I’m super excited to have a way to share my experiences with all of you. To start, I’ll give you some background about myself. My name is Vanessa, and I was born and raised in Arkansas. I recently graduated from...
Blog Post 1: Hola Costa Rica!
It has only been three days since we've been in Costa Rica, but it feels like much longer! We arrived on Friday night (May 27th), and it has been non-stop since then. On Friday after arriving from the airport, we had a late dinner with Dr. Wettergreen's family before...
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 minor in...
¡Hasta Luego, Costa Rica!
This is it. The home stretch. The final countdown. The last stand. The last week in Costa Rica. It has been an experience unlike any other I’ve had. On the internship side of things, I am pulling out all the stops to wrap up my work and hand it off to the next...
Ciao, Costa Rica
What a summer it has been! Upon leaving Costa Rica, I have had some time to reflect on the experience as a whole, and remember all I have learned. The Costa Rica experience was a good mix of working hard at our internships, and relaxing and having fun on the weekends....
Week 9: End of Chapter 1
A New Family Before getting onto the plane from Chapel Hill, NC to Houston TX, I did not know what to expect. The only impression of my 11 soon-to-be classmates I had was through GroupMe discussions about housing or Rice University’s mandatory health checkup. On top...
Final Summer Thoughts: What is bioengineering, anyway?
Many people asked me at the beginning of the summer if I was a bioengineer and in response, I would say no. Two months later, I’m at the end of my first experience in a real-world medical technologies company, but I still find myself occasionally Googling phrases like...
Última publicación de Costa Rica
Most groups follow the same pattern in Tuckman's stages of group development (forming -> storming -> norming -> performing) when learning to work with one another and the GMI Cohort is no different. If anything, the fact that we all lived together for exactly...
One last ‘Pura Vida’
Wow I can’t believe this is the last blog of summer! While I have loved my time here, I am so excited to get home and see my family and friends for a couple days before hopping in the car for a nice 20-hour drive down to Houston. My last days at my internship have...
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