Hola a tod@s from Santiago, Chile! I have now been taking classes at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile for the past month. It’s an awesome university, both similar to and different from Pitt. An important thing to know about La Católica is that it is a private university. In Chile, there is a major…
Tag: Spring 2022
Edinburgh, Dover, Cambridge
Greetings from cloudy, chilly England! Cambridge is quiet now because many students have returned home or are traveling because we are on Spring Break until late April. I’ve traveled a bit also, south to see the famous White Cliffs of Dover and north to Scotland. During week 6 of Lent term, a good friend from…
CURF 2: Becoming a Researcher in Literature
Hi everyone. My journey towards the research I am currently doing has been interesting. This spring is just one stage in my process of working towards my BPhil. In broadest terms the subject of my research is how the novels One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez 1967) and The Old Drift (Namwali Serpell…
Welcome to Uni!
Hello again! I am so excited to writing to you all as I finish up the first half of my semester here in London. Fun fact about London is that they refer to college as “Uni”! While here I am not partaking in an internship, but I am taking 5 classes. These classes are requirements…
CUTF Update: A Lesson In Student Discussion
Over the past two and a half months, Professor Shannon Reed and I have worked together to reshape the Readings In Contemporary Fiction course. Together, we have added two new readings from author V.E. Schwab: The Near Witch and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. My intention in adding these readings was twofold: first, I…
CUTF Learning Through Teaching: Carrying On With the Case Study
As a member of the high school Class of 2020, my transition to college was anything but smooth and typical. I drove through a parking lot for graduation, gave a valedictory address from my living room, and spent my first year at the University of Pittsburgh at home, 212 miles away from the Cathedral of…
Together We Are Stronger Than the Sum of Our Parts (A Chancellors Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship Update)
Teaching is a collaborative process. As a Chancellors Undergraduate Teaching Fellow, I work directly with Dr. Tae Min Hong to develop materials for the Honors Physics 2 class. I also collaborate with my fellow Undergraduate Teaching Assistants- Ethan Lilie, Eli Ullman-Kissel, Quincy Bayer, Yiru Wang, and Natan Herzog, with the Graduate Teaching Assistant- Francis Burk,…
CURF 2: Getting Started In Research
I have always been interested in the cardiovascular system, especially the heart. I find it’s anatomy so mesmerizing and fascinating, which is why I wanted to see what type of biomedical research involving the heart was being done at Pitt. Additionally, I have an interest in tissue engineering, so I was hoping to find a…
CURF #2 The research journey
With the warm weather arriving this week, its finally feeling like spring, and it’s crazy to think we are already over halfway through the semester. While the start of the semester feels like yesterday, thinking back on when I first started in lab seems ages ago, likely because so much has happened and I have…
CURF Blog #2- Becoming a Researcher: Learning the Importance of Research in CSD
I became interested in research through taking several CSD (communication science and disorders) courses within my major and understanding how research is an essential component of clinical practice (both in the CSD field and in a plethora of other disciplines). In the past, as a high school student, I had received the opportunity to conduct…