Category: Personal
The Most Magical Disneyland
Recently Alex and I spent a long weekend together in Disneyland. Alex took me to Disneyland for the first time about a year after we moved to Arizona and since we can make it to Anaheim in about a 6 h... Read More
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
I’ve just about finished my second research project in my career as a graduate student! Hooray! I’ve completed simulations, made a whole lot of plots and written up my work to be published... Read More
Mini Interview
Over the past few semesters I have been involved in a mentoring group at ASU called Sundial. In Sundial, older undergrads and graduate students come together to mentor incoming freshman. We share abou... Read More
100 Day Project
Over the past few months, I participated in the 100 Day Project. The point of this project is to be creative for 100 days. Whatever works for you, some small task, a big task, several smaller projects... Read More
Comic Con Part 2
The first spring I was down in Arizona, finishing up my first year of graduate school, I had an unusual bout of adventurousness. I had received an email about volunteering as a panelist at the Phoenix... Read More
Bullet Journaling
Ever since I was in running start, taking college and high school classes concurrently, I have had a lot of things to balance. First it included two class schedules, homework and project deadlines, ev... Read More
Headstrong: Maria Sibylla Merian
Back in 6th grade I had a set of teachers that were a bit unconventional. They didn’t follow the same flow in curriculum as the other teachers; they trusted that their students would gain more o... Read More
Headstrong: Virginia Apgar
The women in this book are grouped by their field – the area of science where their work had the most impact. Funnily enough, my own fields, or the fields that I am most interested in, are at th... Read More