My internship is a political internship with the Sierra Club. For this internship they placed me with a political campaign in Pennsylvania, and I work with Danielle Friel Otten’s state house campaign in Chester County. I did not expect to have an internship in a political environment, so it has taken some adjustment. My job…
Tag: Summer 2020
Project Details
As the summer has progressed, it’s been interesting to see the details of this project progress. Time spent with this project this summer is a continuation of time spent in the fall as a THINK Fellow during the Fall of 2019 with the Honors College. Over the course of the Fall and movement into the…
Key Takeaways from PRYSE Academy
I can’t believe PRYSE Academy is already over; it went by so fast! I loved meeting and getting to know the students at PRYSE Academy. Their personalities shined through their energy during games in class, creative answers to opening circle questions, drawings that answered questions, and their goals for the future. This internship had many key…
A Holistic Research Experience
My perception of research this summer showed me that even wet lab work that I am used to can be modified to an extent to work online. There were a couple of experiments that I put on the back-burner, and knowing bioinformatic information about my gene was key to understanding how to set up these…
A Summer of Growth
Before this project, I was very unfamiliar with the process of conducting research, and didn’t have much experience with reading published research either. From the start, my research mentor/ colleague, Dean Murrell, has been a guiding light for me making my way through this project. I used to think that conducting research had to entail…
Change Isn’t So Bad
I will forever value the experience I was granted this summer as part of the Brackenridge Fellowship. I learned a lot about interdisciplinary work, the research process, and the opportunities available to me at Pitt. This summer I learned that research, particularly the methods and timeline of a study, are not as strict as I…
Flexibility + GIS
Flexibility and other Soft Skills Flexibility. It’s something we’ve all–to varying degrees–had to embrace over the last few months. Starting in March, I knew that finding a suitable internship would be difficult, and by April, I conceded that I probably wouldn’t be doing quite the work I had expected in Summer 2020. But, now coming…
Breaking Out of the Box: Evaluating Skills Gained From a Summer Stuck Inside
As someone who rarely chooses to dwell on the past, I can’t say that I have too many regrets. That being said, I oftentimes wonder if I chose the correct academic path. Like most college students, I found myself bouncing between a few different majors. Eventually I settled on International Relations, with a focus on…
My Skill Acquisition
I believe this research expanded my understanding of interdisciplinary research as I see it. With an ultimate career path of becoming a healthcare provider, a more traditional research experience may be in a lab or hospital setting. I have also incorporated the traditional research experiences into my undergraduate career, but I strongly believe in the…
Brackenridge Reflection
At the beginning of the summer, Brett told us that research isn’t a linear process. I heard what he was saying and understood his point, but internally I think I still expected to move straight forward at all times. Needless to say, that didn’t happen. There were moments when another topic would distract me from…