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Aloha everyone! Here is a piece I wrote for work about a recent visit we had to Coconut Island. Enjoy! The highlight of my experience at the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Community Read More
I want to get back into my writing. I have really missed it. I also have such great ideas for things too. However, life seems to have given me other plans for a bit. After Read More
I’m nearly 2 months into my PhD at a different university in a different city. So you would think I’d be getting settled right about now. At least I would think I should be Read More
There wasn’t any doubt that I would go to college one day. Learning was my pass time. My passion. The sheer idea that I would someday be able to attend an institution dedicated to Read More
There’s a Radiolab episode concerned with the physics of falling cats. If a cat falls out of a high-rise apartment, it reconfigures itself mid-flight into a “flying squirrel/parachute” pose to, allowing it to Read More
There is an old adage in science: you will fail far more than you will succeed. It’s something I’ve come to accept, although begrudgingly at that, throughout my time as a researcher. I Read More
Hi Friends, So, it is nearly time… in exactly a week, I will be back at work and my little rascals are going to be minded by someone other than me. I am not worried Read More
I was dismissed from my PhD program at the end of my second year. I fell way behind in work and wasn’t making sufficient progress. I wanted nothing more than to be able to Read More
“There’s gonna come a time in your first semester where you feel like you don’t belong here. But remember that you’re here for a reason, and you’ll be fine.” This was Read More