Pintern Blogs

Our final week at the lab was rather slow, there wasn’t much to do as the animals recovered from their surgeries. Unfortunately, the experiments with the new cohort of animals will start Monday, right after Ry and I leave. However, we still found things to...

Day 14: Our third week started off with a one of kind experience from Big Beard’s Adventure Tour company for a snorkeling day at Buck Island National Monument. The island was made a National Monument in 1961 by John F. Kennedy along with the reef...

Day fourteen we got up by 7:30 to be ready to go on a sailing adventure out to Buck island. Buck island is a National Park by way of President John F. Kennedy who loved the island. About two-thirds of the island is surrounded by...

It is absolutely unbelievable that my internship is already over. These past six weeks have been filled with absolutely amazing people, opportunities, and experiences and I would not change a thing. As for my last week, our main goal was to cram as much in...

This was my last week here at the Appleton Whittel Research Ranch and I’m sad to go but thankful for the experience I got to have during my short time here. My week was continuing my experiment with the mice carcasses. The experiment went well...

I’m sad to say this is my last week at Frazier Rehab, everyone here is so kind and I’m really going to miss my time here.  I really enjoy my time on the 9th floor, everyone is goodhearted and never discourage me from trying to...

Finishing my last week at the George Lab has been both exciting and melancholy. I am excited to get back to Colorado and see friends and family again, but I will also definitely miss my fellow lab members and San Diego. I have learned a...

This week was flew by. Sadly it was my last week at the REEF, but it was filled with fun and sorrowful goodbyes. Monday we had a busy day. Usually, Monday’s are reserved for husbandry and tasks to prepare for the week but instead, we...

This was a fun week at the WWII Museum, let me tell you. The first big thing I got to do this week was interview Mr. Martin Loicano, Executive Director of Education and Access. I got to talk to him on his everyday job and...

This week was the turning point of my internship at UCSD where we changed from just learning how to do different analysis methods on our training proteins to creating our own analysis methods to use on the test set of systems with the tools that...

Monday I worked primarily on beginning my methods and procedures portion for the paperthat will hopefully be published by the end of the eighteen month experiment. I also finished placing the coral nubbins in the rack for the flow experiment. This was by far my...