Every week I send out an update to the medical school, which gets send out as part of WGW (What's Good Wednesday), an email where the associate deans of students compiles the professional and academic accomplishments and life events of the student body in an effort to help keep us connected even though we are spread out across lecture halls, campuses, and hospitals across the state. Usually populated by sporadic submissions of significance, after talking with friends before I left, I decided to twist the format to suit my needs to stay connected to my class. After the fifth week of consistent submission, my update was given it's own special place and title: Kassel's Corner.
Greetings from the UK! Kassel Galaty (Med21, I suppose) continues to study in the UK. Brexit happened, but we don't talk about that here. Notable talks this week have been about the History of CBT in Ghana, meeting the Canadian astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons, and "Pick your Poison: Insecticides and Locust Control in Colonial Kenya." She also went on a tour of the Zoology Library, where she saw some rare books. Highlights included a first edition print of Linneaus Systema Naturae (note the inclusion of the phoenix, dragon, and unicorn in the Paradoxa taxonomy) and some of the most beautiful drawings of dissected frogs she has ever seen. She also added a workshop on early modern scientific instruments, where she learned how to calculate the declination of the sun using a 17th-century handbook and looked at a spider and poppy seeds using microscopes similar to those used by Robert Hooke when he wrote his Micrographia.
Cheers!
Greetings from the UK! Kassel Galaty (Med21, I suppose) continues to study in the UK. Brexit happened, but we don't talk about that here. Notable talks this week have been about the History of CBT in Ghana, meeting the Canadian astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons, and "Pick your Poison: Insecticides and Locust Control in Colonial Kenya." She also went on a tour of the Zoology Library, where she saw some rare books. Highlights included a first edition print of Linneaus Systema Naturae (note the inclusion of the phoenix, dragon, and unicorn in the Paradoxa taxonomy) and some of the most beautiful drawings of dissected frogs she has ever seen. She also added a workshop on early modern scientific instruments, where she learned how to calculate the declination of the sun using a 17th-century handbook and looked at a spider and poppy seeds using microscopes similar to those used by Robert Hooke when he wrote his Micrographia.
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