As an avid journaler I am someone who thoroughly enjoys reflecting. When reading back my first WAGSFP journal entry I was correct in my assumptions. I did overestimate how much time I had before starting the poster and I did make errors in the new programming I used this summer. With the errors, though, I…
Category: Social Sciences
Social Identity + Updates on My Research Experience – Lauren Penrose
With my WAGSFP project it’s certainly been a learning curve. I considered myself decently well-versed in the research process, but getting into the nitty-gritty of the analysis and coding has been a new and admittedly challenging experience. I am being pushed to quickly pick up unfamiliar coding in order to establish relationships between my variables…
My Research Project – Olivia Morreale
Project title: “Caregiving, Complex Family and Kinship Ties, and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD)” Over the past three weeks, I have learned more about focus groups and other related research methods than I thought possible. Though I was apprehensive about coming into this fellowship as someone without research experience, Dr. Patterson gives me ample…
A Letter to Your Future Self – Olivia Morreale
Dear Future Olivia, Hi! I am writing this letter to you during the second week of the fellowship. The past few days have been so exciting: engaging in skill-building workshops, meeting with my mentor whom I think very highly of, and starting to chip away at research projects has been pretty surreal. I feel fortunate…
A Letter to Your Future Self – Paige Bost
Future Paige, I am really excited to participate in the Women and Gender Summer Fellowship Program and gain incredibly valuable skills and experience! Although we have done research in the past, this will be our first full-time (and paid) research experience. I am excited to be working with Praxis Lab over the summer, and I…
THIS IS IT!
Dear Me from 10 weeks prior, Look at you! As per usual, this fellowship felt way too short, like with most good things in life. Moreover, you set off to accomplish quite a bit this summer, and while you were able to get quite a bit done in terms of your research and medical school…
Blog Post 9: Part Dos – the Testimonial
WAGSFP was such a fantastic program overall, especially with getting a chance to work more independently on my research project, prepping it up to make it into my thesis over senior year, and meeting other fellows over the two months we spent together (and their own co-workers/mentors in WAGSFP Lunch). My favorite part of WAGSFP…
Blog Post 9: The Song of my (WAGSFP) Life
So in terms of the song I chose, whenever I worked on my project and tried to analyze survey results (or completed medical applications outside of that) , I tended to do this while listening to music. I don’t normally listen to music with a lot of lyrics while working cause I find that the…
Some Mistakes and Obstacles
From the time I spent with Joe Salvatore, I realized that there are actually many goals I have. Besides getting my poster ready for the upcoming UROP symposium, some other goals include finding journals to publish any sort of research paper I decide to make on my study in the future, getting ready for a…
A Reflection
Hi again y’all! With this blog prompt, I think it helps to be grateful yet honest when describing how the experiences provided so far are in the WAGSFP. It’s this combination that ultimately allows the most growth to occur within any person, group, or task – and that’s really what I’d want out of an…