Hello and welcome to my page. I haven’t posted on this blog for some time, and I think it is time I return. I have been working at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center as a lab technician in the PCR lab. I primarily was doing COVID-19 PCR testing, which is why I have been absent from this blog. As COVID began spiking throughout October, November, and December, my lab was running thousands of Covid tests every week. I was working sixty plus hours every week, including most weekends and it was the worst type of burn out I have ever felt. My life revolved around Covid. Finally things have slowed down, I have received both doses of the vaccine, and I feel mentally prepared to return to my other interests.
Another piece of good news is that I was accepted to my dream graduate program after two years of applying! I will be moving to Seattle next fall with my partner to attend graduate school at the University of Washington. I will be in the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science for my master’s program, and am hoping it will lead into a PhD eventually. I am beyond excited to commit myself to research and continue my education. I am counting down the days to September, and in the mean time I have a big move to plan.
The one thing I have remained dedicated to throughout the pandemic, increasingly so when I was busy at work, is reading. I have been reading everything I can get my hands on and have decided to make it a part of this blog. I want to discuss the books I read and how they relate to my passion for environmental science and science communication. Some books I am looking forward to discussing are Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning and Dorceta Taylor’s series that includes Toxic Communities and The Rise of the American Conservation Movement, among others.
That is all I had to say for now, over the course of the next week I will be attempting to reorganize my page to accommodate these changes, as well as return to posting more regularly. I am aiming to post twice a week, but I am still working full time and Covid test volumes are still pretty high. The pandemic is far from over but the last few weeks of having fewer positives and tests overall has given me reason for hope.
Learning How to Science 