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Hi all, This is a final update from me over here in Ohio. It’s hard to imagine that next month is August, which I often see as an informal end to “summer.” The last two weeks have been incredibly busy for me, but with the program winding down, I’ve been able to catch my breath…

We’re finally starting to get into the meat of the project. Writing has begun. As much as I love reading, learning, analyzing in information, I’m really excited that I am now beginning to synthesize and outline what I have learned for others to eventually see and experience. The platform my project is using will allow…

Last week marked the beginning of the summer semester so my workload has significantly increased, but I knew what I was getting into. While I was frantically registering for the summer course and hoping that the green circle wouldn’t change into a yellow triangle, I mentally prepared myself for the fact that the month of…

Hi everyone! I hope everyone is doing well. Let’s jump right in: CATCH-UP I don’t have too many updates regarding my last blog post: I’m continuing to go into each patient that has undergone an elective labor induction (choosing to undergo an intervention that speeds up the process of giving birth) at the CNM Service…

On a day-to-day basis, time moves quickly. But in hindsight, time has passed slowly. On a day-to-day basis, time moves slowly. But in hindsight, time has passed quickly. This is the paradox of quarantine, the anthem of 2020– what have I done all day today? Even writing this post, I struggle to put the right…

Wow. Let me tell you so much has been happening in the last few weeks. Dr. Heaney was asked to write for Washington Post and asked everyone to help with some parameters regarding protests over time. We had to research decades of protests, rallies, and riots in a week. It was kind of stressful, not…

The concept of business has been on my mind a lot throughout quarantine. Obviously, switching from life as a full-time student with work, extracurricular, and social responsibilities, to the life of a person who quite literally cannot leave the house, has been a huge adjustment. No longer do I have hours of out-of-home commitments every…

We are living through revolutionary times that demand justice for black lives while simultaneously doing so during a pandemic that seems to increasingly infect more people on the daily. My heart swells with invigoration seeing how our society is rightfully remolding itself in numerous ways from recognizing the excessive extent of police brutality to normalizing…

My name is Ellie Falahee and I am one of the 2020 Women and Gender Summer Fellows. When signing up for this date as my first summer reflection, I expected to write some fluffy summary of how spring term was finally over and I learned so much throughout the past few weeks. Instead, as I…