Hello everyone! It’s hard for me to believe that my summer in Taiwan is finally over. For our last couple of weeks in Taiwan, we decided to take things slow and spend time with our fellow labmates and Taiwanese friends. During our second to last week in Taiwan, Brendon and I wrapped up our work …
Before beginning these last two weeks, I took some time to reflect upon the last 8 weeks that I have spent here in Taiwan. I can’t believe it’s almost over! Week 9 consisted of writing and editing our paper. I am so proud of myself and Melissa for completing our first scientific paper. Sometimes, …
With less than half our journey remaining, I told myself to keep a positive mentality; that the cup is half full and not half empty. We still have 3 weeks to enjoy our time in Taiwan and with all the people that we’ve met here and built connections with. My research has been going extremely …
Taiwan blog #4 – Banana Boats are Not Really Boats Read More »
Week 7: In lab, we conducted the second and final week of our exercise intervention using the DAQ APP (a pressurized pillow). Unfortunately, we weren’t able to recruit CKD patients for our study in time, which was a bit upsetting. However, our lab mate will most likely continue the intradialytic exercise intervention with CKD patients …
This week in lab, we continued our exercise intervention. On Wednesday, we gave journal presentations and on Thursday, we gave our second progress report. I think it is safe to say that we probably won’t get our CKD patients at this point. I am a little sad about this, but I am appreciative of what …
The past two weeks have been pretty busy both in and out of lab. Celebrating both Kat and Ayri’s birthdays, we traveled to Kenting and Taipei for some weekend relaxation. Though, lab has been really sobering in understanding the nature of science. There’s been many ups and downs in lab; we haven’t been able to …
Week 5: We were finally able to start the first part of our exercise intervention using the DAQ Air Pressure Pillow (a device created by the lab) on healthy subjects (members of our lab plus Kat and Brendon). We also performed everyone’s “pre” test on a Biodex machine that we’ll later compare to their “post” test …
Wow I can’t believe we have already passed the halfway point of our journey in Taiwan! Every week seems to be better than the last and these past 2 weeks have been keeping the trend. For starters one of my bigger fears being abroad was how I was going to get a decent haircut …
Taiwan blog #3 – Elephant mountain has no elephants Read More »
Hello everyone! One of my favorite parts of travelling is making new friends, and I cannot stress how friendly our Taiwanese labmates and roommates have been to us. Whether it may be taking us out to lunch on a daily basis or taking weekend trips with us to other regions of Taiwan, I am really …
So this week, it finally hit me that we’ve been here for a month. It definitely hasn’t felt like a month and I’m sad it’ll be over before I even realize. This week in lab, it was mostly a dud since the cells didn’t grow, but we have a game plan on how to best …
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