About Sam
So, this summer I decided that I would do nothing academic and just
enjoy myself. SO, for the first month of the summer I went around
looking for jobs, most of which didn't start until July because that's
how late all the schools get out. I ended up life guarding at the
outdoor pool my JCC (Jewish Community Center) just built. It was a
pretty cool place and I got awesomely tan. Yes, people can get tan in
Wisconsin, winter does not last all year long. I also decided that I'd
train with my swim club at home because it would be the last chance I
would get to swim with them for a whole summer. It's a really fun team
and we all had a great time training this summer. I'd wake up early in
the morning, milk my cows so I could make chocolate milk after practice
(a great recover drink), and then I would check the brewery in my
basement to make sure everything was turning out brewlicious! Then it
was off to swim practice at our team pond (we don't have pools in
wisconsin because the plumbing is too complicated to maintain for us
feebleminded, backward, country-folk).
Aside from all the daily hardships of country life, I published another
article in the American Journal of Bioethics. I wasn't really planning
on doing this, but the article that I responded to was something I
really felt strongly in writing about. It just came out in the most
recent issue of AJOB and it's about the role of bioethics in politics.
If anyone is interested in reading it I can send it your way!
Currently, I'm at the University of Pennsylvania doing a masters in
bioethics. They have a fantastic department with some of the foremost
bioethicists in country. All of my classes are incredibly interesting
and have an unbelieveable student body of duel degree med, law, and
dental students and many mid-career professionals that all work in
bioethics related fields (ie law, nursing, medicine, pharmaceuticals,
philosophy). As for Philly, it's a dirty place. However, it has really
grown on me and I'm quite enjoying it so far.
That's enough for now, more to come!