Life After Connecticut College

S-s-summa is in full swing in illadelphia (Eapen, 2008). Some days are nice and some days are hot and steamy (just like Chris Reilly). Currently, I can't tell because I finally installed a window air conditioning unit in my apartment so my room is actually nice and cool. Please join me in my sigh of relief. Besides, most of my friends were tired of me complaining of swamp ass.

So far, I have spent most of the summer searching for jobs. I have found a couple cool things to do with my bioethics master's degree, but the only interview I have right now is at Cedars-Sinai hospital in LA. I've never been to LA before and the offices for my job are in Beverly Hills, so I'm pretty pumped to fly out there. It's a great hospital and I could live in California...if I can afford it. What I really want to do is sabatoge their milk industry and get Wisconsin back on top. I'll report back soon.

Another pretty exciting job that I've applied for involves working for a consulting firm that deals with human subjects research regulations, arms control, and national security. Oddly enough, I'm qualified to deal with any of those areas. I took an entire course on bioethics and national security (which was awesome), and my master's thesis is on non-lethal weapons control. We'll see where that goes, but either job should be interesting.

As of this week I'll be half way through my summer course on ethical issues in animal biotechnology. There's a lot of crazy stuff going on, especially in the US, and most Americans (myself included) have no idea. For example, most people don't know that there is a drug on the market that is extracted from the milk of genetically modified goats. From what I can tell, and I am no expert, this is a pretty ingenious and safe way to manufacture complicated pharmaceuticals. However, things like glowing fish and other glowing pets are quickly making their way onto the American market without people really considering the long-term effects of these animals on the environment. More specifically, it's only a matter of time before they start finding their way into the ecosystem and screwing with reproduction. Who knows where it'll end up? Soon we'll have glowing people! And I don't mean the kind when you shoot a cheesy compliment towards your date. I know telling Conn alums is not where the announcement is needed, but stay informed and discuss these things with your friends (i.e. how cool it would be to glow in the dark).

I hope everyone had a good holiday weekend! One good place to keep up with current developments in science is www.scienceprogress.org. You also check out the New York Times, especially the science section on Tuesdays. Take care everyone.

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Since my last blog I have finished up my semester, taken a ten day break at home, started up a new semester, and had someone pee on my car...while I was in it. As always, it has been pretty eventful.

My semester ended up well, but I can't say that I absolutely love exam time. I had three sizable papers and a 48-hour take-home final for my law class. My first paper was on the ethical obligations of television dramas to portray accurate scientific and medical information to the public if it's conceivable to do so. Meaning, that if the information exists television dramas cannot just make things up because, in many cases, it becomes a hazard to public health. It was certainly a fun and interesting paper to write, but it had it's shortcomings. The take-home message of our paper is that television dramas, at the very least, have an obligation to offer a balanced view of controversial issues so as to not completely misinform the public. The reason why this is so important is because a significant portion of Americans do not have the reading comprehension levels to get information elsewhere and are essentially at the mercy of what the television tells them. And, especially with TV dramas, people think what they're seeing is an accurate portrayal of what actually happens.

My next paper was for my narrative ethics class. For this paper I designed a medical ethics teambuilding program for clinical teams in a hospital setting. The goal of the exercise was to build a positive and respectful atmosphere for everyone on a clinical team and teach everyone on the clinical team to value the varied moral perspectives of others in order to expand the narrative of the patient. The exercise essentially involves clinical teams reading and discussing short doctor or patient narratives and attempting to glean all the possible moral considerations that may or may not be in the narrative. Hopefully, the members of the clinical team will use what they learn and apply it to the hospital setting. This is just a rough sketch of the teambuilding exercise, but you get the idea.

My third paper was for my moral philosophy class. I'll spare everyone the details on this one (because they weren't my own ideas!). Basically, what we had to do was discuss the narrative movement in bioethics and how understanding narratives and stories contributes to medical ethics. Interesting and important stuff, so good thing I took a whole class on it.

AND finally, my 48-hour champion law school exam. It was a typical law school exam (or so I'm told) that involved a fact pattern question and theory question. The fact pattern question involved analyzing a fake public health policy, offering all the legal objections, and making policy suggestions to make the policy legally and socially more acceptable. The theory question allotted us 2500 words to create a coherent theory of public health and two examples of this theory in action. As my professor later told me, if you can come up with a legitimate theory of public health in 2500 words then you have the potential for a bright career in public health! Well hooray for that. Naw, I like public health, and so do you! Next time, she should probably give us something that's possible within the word limits.

THEN, I went home and had some fun in the Midwestern behemoth, Chicago, with former camel Emily Gagen. There was also a sizable amount of merriment in my Midwestern gem, Milwaukee! That's right, it's my gem. More on that next time.

Oh yeah, someone really did pee on my car in Philly, but I'll talk about that next time too. It gives everyone something to look forward to. Stay smelly camels!

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I must tell my crazy story of the year. Aside from all the other fun things I’ve been up to, I went out last night in center city Philly. I went to a REALLY trendy restaurant and bar called The Continental. Personally speaking, I find the name to be a bit lame, but the place is pretty nice nonetheless. I’m there for no more than half an hour and Luke Wilson shows up. For those of you who don’t know, he’s Owen Wilson’s brother and can be seen in movies such as Old School and Legally Blonde. Sorry ladies, he’s not that hot in person and on top of that he’s a real jerk. Being the ballsy idiot that I am and not really caring too much about his celebritiness, I went up to say hey to the disgruntled looking comedian. Mr. Wilson (to be patronizing) was sitting on the edge of a couch about 5 feet away from my going-out clan. I asked him if he’s Luke Wilson and he said no, of course. So I asked him, knowing it was him, if I could shake his hand anyway. I then told him I was about to leave and I just wanted to say hey…so he told me that he was actually Luke Wilson. Thanks, Luke. I was then cutoff by some girl who was a huge fan of Luke Wilson, as she told me. No problem, I’m not. After spacing out and awkwardly standing there for a second, Mr. Wilson asked me if I was going to keep standing there or if I was going to give him some f-ing space. No, he was not polite enough to say f-ing, apparently, as I found out, he really enjoys dropping the f-bomb. So I told him I understand I’m not a girl, it’s cool. I guess I struck a nerve, because he dared me to say something f-ing smart again and told me he’ll knock my f-ing head off. WHOA THERE LUKE. I didn’t know those were fightin’ words, but I guess I don’t know the celebrity lingo.

I was about to walk out the door until I realized that I left my coat back at my table. Pretty disappointed and shocked that this guy had been so rude after someone went up to say “hey,” I went back to get my coat. I certainly understand that he probably gets this crap from people all the time—it must be obnoxious and exhausting! But, there are nicer ways to avoid being bothered by people in a Philly bar (if you'd like some suggestions just ask, I'm from the midwest). Anyway, I went up to him again and told him I just wanted to ask him a question. Without hesitation he told me I was starting to get really f-ing annoying. Starting? I thought I was annoying the first time I went up to talk to him. Of course, I told him I just wanted to ask a question, but he just wanted me to get the f#$% away. His bodyguard, who was probably enjoying this little exchange, told me he had had a long day. Really? Luke Wilson had a long day. I wasn’t aware that having a long day gave you license to take a verbal dump on everyone that talked to you. I mean, you are a celebrity. You don’t think people are going to innocently come up to and express their fanhood? I’m pretty sure it has nothing to do with how long his day was and everything to with how big his ego is. I certainly enjoy his silly Frat Pack movies, but there is no excuse for treating people like that (says the bioethicist-in-training). He could have at least given me some credit for having the balls to talk to him, while most people at the bar were ignoring him.

Anyway, I just find it extremely intriguing that someone whose entire existence relies on his fans was such an unrelenting jerk to me AND everyone else at the bar. But, if anyone who reads my blog can offer some perspective on this unfortunate situation, please do. For now, I’d recommend a boycott of his movies until he starts being more polite and responsible in public. There are plenty of people that love his movies and look up to him in some way or another--God forbid. Don’t disappoint your fans Luke! I could always just go to Bryn Mawr, where he’s currently filming a movie, and say, “Hey Luke, I just wanted to ask you a question!”

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Actually, I have no idea if lethal chemical weapons can die, but there has certainly been a movement to rid ourselves of these unconventional tools of death. Unconventional or not (aka conventional), I have finally decided to write my masters thesis on the use of chemical weapons in combat. More specifically, I have to decide whether or not the current chemical weapons convention needs to be re-written for the use of non-lethal chemical weapons in combat. Our domestic law enforcement has been a fan of non-lethal weapons for decades, and as that technology progresses they continue to use it more frequently. The military, however, has less of interest in putting their weapons on stun because the concepts of due process or innocent until proven guilty are not quite on the radar (sorry for the pun). Not that people in the military neccessarily want to kill, but the rules of war are different. As civilization continues to progress, death during war has become a less acceptable outcome. The battlefield is also changing. There is not the same clear line between enemy and civilian because battles have moved into urban areas. Thus, the development of non-lethal weapons by the law enforcement community has become more appealing to the military. However, it is questionable whether or not the chemical weapons convention needs to be renovated to accommodate non-lethal chemical weapons because they are developed in the law enforcement capacity. I hope that was somewhat interesting, because it sounds awesome to me.

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I had some funnier titles in mind, but I figured I wrote Annals of Penn Law Vol. 1 No. 1, so I might as well do a No. 2. As you may remember, I was not particularly impressed with my first law class experience; however, the class has certainly grown on me. We've gone from reading about the history of vaccinations and the propoganda campaigns that have gone along with them to new born and pre-natal screening. Both of these public health categories have raised and continue to raise ethical problems, especially when these programs are legislatively mandated. As far as disease case reporting is concerned, HIV and AIDS has been one of the most difficult public health dilemmas in recent history because of the associated stigmas, discrimination, political rights, and the lack of curative treatments for it. Fortunately, this is rapidly changing, which changes our conception of what should be mandated. Legally speaking, many of the cases surrounding these public health issues have been very interesting to analyze and difficult to solve, despite some very meticulous statutes.

YES, I know that's all crazy interesting, but I'm sure someone will read that. Anyway, since my time-of-my-life experience in New Orleans I've been to some craptastic club swim meets at the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia. UMD has an unbelievable pool, one of the best in the world, and it was exciting just to go there. UVA also has a pretty nice pool, but has an even more nicer campus (I know that's incorrect grammar, but easy A with Dean Ray was the only English Class I took! (It really was a great class)). If you have never been there I recommend it. The campus is uniformly georgian/classical architecture, has some nice green spaces, and the great town of Charlottesville to its credit as well. ALSO, although only half my readers will care, the pizza restaraunt Mellow Mushroom has the hottest wait staff ever. ALL of you will be glad to know that it has good food. Maybe not as good as a New England or New York pizza place, but it still tastes nice.

The work is piling on, so I better get back to it. I'll report on the rest of my classes later. As for the architecture of UVA's campus, if I got it wrong, please feel free to correct me. Take care team camel.

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I haven't blogged for awhile, so I wanted to quickly tell you what I've been up to lately. My classes are going just dandily right now, but what I really want to talk about is my weekend. This past weekend, as part of a club swim team trip, I took a little 3-day trip to New Orleans! I have never been there before and it was incredible. Perhaps some people would enjoy other cities more, but being a music major, besides Vienna, this is the one place you learn about the most. It was fantastic to finally see a place that appreciates jazz. In the french quarter it seemed that every other bar or club had live music that was jazz, blues, or really bad cover bands. I even had the good fortune to hook up with my close friend Brenna Muller from Conn and then convinced the whole swim club to come with us to see New Orlean's own Ellis Marsalis (famed piano playin' father of Wynton)! It was a great show, even though he's 70 something, and the entire club ended up really enjoying the show (the ladies especially loved the sexy bass player). Speaking of sexy bass players...Chris Reilly has got the moves to make you groves.

Anyway, the entire charm of the city is great, it's like being in a jazz version of Pirates of the Caribbean. Also, unlike Philly (in so many ways), the entire service industry down there was fantastic. We got lovely drinking and hangover advice from the hostess at the House of Blues (which had surprisingly good food), and genuinely kind treatment almost everywhere we went. And, if you're interested to know, the death culture down there is really cool too. There are tons of voodoo shops, haunted tours, and cemetary tours. The cemetaries are especially neat because the tombs are all above ground so the coffins don't float out of the ground because most of the city is below sea level.

If anyone has not been there and you have a chance to go I highly recommend it. My weekend was some of the most fun I've ever had and some reminiscent of floralia, but along the Mississippi. I hope everyone is enjoying this blustery Feburary. Oh yeah, in reference to the title, some awesome guy at a bar really told the team that.

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Classes started this past week, and what a week it was. Since last semester I've been trying to get into a Penn Law class. There are only so many available to non-law students, so I attempted to take special topics in public health law with a professor who did the bioethics degree. I've been thinking I might want to go to law school, so this looked like a great opportunity to see what it's like! I registered for the class and made seventh on the waiting list...what a success! For a 14 person seminar the chances were slim that I would get in. You know where this story is going, but I promise it's worth reading. Just in case I didn't get into the law class I registered for a bioethics class at the same time, biotechnology and the body. Sounds pretty awesome, but I have to try out the law class.

The first meeting of the class was last Wednesday, the 16th of January. First, I'm hanging out at the law school earlier in the day and I accidentally run into the professor, so I introduce myself and tell her that I'll be sitting in on the class and trying to get in. She tells me that's probably the best thing to do since it's such a small class, we'll just have to see who shows up. THEN, this is where it gets interesting (if it hasn't already), I'm at the bioethics center and my brother calls me from Baltimore. He asks me if I want to see our favorite A Capella group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, next wednesday in Baltimore. Of course, there is no way I can make that concert because I have class, and if I get into the law class it would look really bad to miss the second class for a concert. Or, if I don't get into the class I would have to miss two weeks in a row of the bioethics class...

This looks like a good place to paragraph. So, I go to the law class and it turns out 14 people show up, including me. SWEET, I'm in the class. Then we start running through the syllabus and the prof says "I hate to do this so early in the semester, but next week's class has to be moved to next week Friday." That means, Sam is going to see Ladysmith Black Mambazo. For those of you who don't know this group, you may know them as the South African A Capella group that sings on Paul Simon's Graceland. If they're coming to a town near you, I would recommend seeing them perform. I believe tickets range from about $25 to $50.

I have some more great stories, or just great stories if this one didn't satisfy, but this is enough for now. I'll keep you updated with the annals of Penn Law. Next time, more on the party scene.

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My holiday season was pretty enjoyable. I did the Jewish thing on christmas, seeing Charlie Wilson's War and eating chinese, and I spent the first few seconds of 2008 in a car with one of my friends driving back from downtown Milwaukee. The two days before new years I was in Chicago with fellow camel Emily Gagen! We spent the day in downtown Chicago eating lunch and walking down michigan avenue, the major shopping street in chi-town. For those east coasters that haven't been to Chicago, or think there is nothing but farm land in the midwest, I would recommend Chicago. It's way big and cleaner than New York (sorry New York) with plenty of awesome museums, restaruants and music venues. The Shedd Aquarium is the biggest indoor aquarium in the world, and the house of blues is an awesome place to eat dinner and watch live music. Okay, I'm done selling Chicago now, but if anyone is interested in finding things to do there just ask (or look online...)!

Next, I spent about 5 days in Baltimore with my brother who is one of the head assistant coaches for the UMBC college swim team and the retrievers swim club. Although I spent a lot of time with him at the pool, we did explore Baltimore a little bit. I have to say, this city needs a little more credit. Anything from center city over to federal hill and locust point is really really nice. The city has cleaned up really well over the past several years and maintains an east coast, harbor city, colonial charm. The neighborhoods outside the downtown area are packed with rowhouses that are brand new or in the process of being renovated. There are plenty of nice bars and restaraunts to hang out at with a pretty young crowd.

If you're around either of these cities and you don't venture into them too often I would recommend you give them retry!

Anyway, I'm back in philly now...lovely lovely philly. It's rainy and cloudy, and rainy and cloudy does not look good on philly. But, on a more serious note, has anyone heard about the cycle of sunspots and how we're about to go into a global cooling cycle that we haven't seen since the 1780s? I read an article about it, but it has not been on the news....Looks like northeastern weather is only going to get better! I'm sure there are some camels out there involved in environmental stuff that could tell me more about this! Hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable holiday.

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So, my first semester of graduate school was pretty awesome. Admittedly, I was not a huge fan of Philly or Penn when I first got there...especially coming from beautiful conn college. But, I've really come to appreciate the school and the city for what they have to offer.
We had some great end of the semester department parties hosted by the department at a restuarant called the Bubble Tea House and on the 14th floor of the Biomedical Research Building. The Bubble Tea house is an Asian fusion restuarant that serves bubble tea and lots of other tea. It's always fun drinking and eating with your professors, something we should have done more often in college! I have to say, those student advisor selection parties at Dean A's house were pretty awesome! Anyway, the Bubble Tea House party was fun. The BRB party was also awesome, as I got slightly tipsy before heading to my final class (the party was in the early afternoon) in pharmaceutical ethics! Of course, it made class even more interesting. Don't worry, I was so nervous I'd do something embarrassing, even more embarrassing than normal, that I waited for about an hour of class before I decided I could speak coherently. But, I did get to know some of my classmates very well at both of those parties, and they are an interesting group of people. We have a lawyer from Merck Pharamceuticals, a lawyer for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a researcher for Pfizer, a big time (pharm hatin') lawyer from philly, a bunch of doctors, an executive at Johnson and Johnson, and some very accomplished professors just to name a few.
I also ended the semester with ANOTHER dinner party that included a different crowd of people and my brother as the lead chef. I'm never quite sure who's gonna show up, but a different mix show up each time and it always works out really well. Maybe I'll have one in january with Chris's awesome band! I listen to them all the time and I would recommend you do the same. Back to the dinner party, we had duck and sweet potatoe latkes! It all turned out really well and if you're looking for the recipe I'll send it your way.
I'm back home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin hanging out and trying to relax during my 40 day winter break, which will be my first real winter break since middle school. I will miss my florida swimming training trip, but milwaukee is just as warm. All you Jews I hope you had a good Hannukah, and everyone else have a good Christmas. But no matter who you are you should drink eggnog, apparently first consumed in Jamestown, Virginia after its founding in the early 17th century. WHO KNEW?

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Last week I had some pretty interesting classes. On Tuesday my bioethics proseminar discussion was about confidentiality in medicine. Most of the debate for the last 40ish years has been based around the case Tarasoff vs. The Regents of the University of California. Basically, a man was seeing a psychiatrist and told him that he was going to kill his ex-girlfriend. Patients say things like that all the time, but this time the patient actually killed the girl. SO, the parents of the girl took the doctor and his superior to court because they did not follow through with their duty to warn. Good points have been made on both sides, but do you think doctors have a duty to warn if they have strong reason to believe another person's life is in danger? It's a lot harder to give a clear answer on this than you might think!

On Wednesday my Bioethics and National Security class, which is awesome, had a guest speaker, Griff Trotter, talk about the ethics of coercion in disaster based medicine. The talk was pretty interesting, but the dinner afterwards was a lot more fun. The department treats guest speakers to dinner at nice restaurants around campus and invites a few students to come along. Dinner conversation ranged from topics related to his talk to mountain climbing, naked runs, narcissism, fraternizing with students, hippies and his experiences as a military doc in disaster medicine (always makes for some cool stories). The philosophy discussion at dinner was really fantastic and intense, but it was nice to see such a down-to-earth guy.

My Thursday class, pharmaceutical ethics, was centered around medical writing, ghost writing publications and academics taking money from industry. Ghost writing publications for peer-reviewed journals is a huge problem which just adds to my lack of trust of peer-reviewed journals. An example would be a pharm company writing an article about the effectiveness of one of their drugs and then paying an expert in the field to sign their name to the authorship line (that wouldn't be biased at all). Even the big time medical journals like the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine are not immune to these types of cheats, although they have done much to mitigate this problem. SO, next time you say "well it's from a peer-reviewed journal," remember that that doesn't mean it's perfectly authoritative.

There's a healthy dose of bioethics for you for the week.

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My dinner party went pretty well Chris, thanks. I was concerned that no one would show considering I invited about 20 people and most said they couldn't come. BUT, I had a good group of 8 people that didn't know each other and there were almost no awkward moments the entire evening! I'll credit that to my personal charm. We had some cheese and crackers and fruit, but the entree was pretty awesome. You saute chicken in the olive oil that sun dried tomatoes are packed in. After it's cooked through cut it into pieces and set it aside. Boil a pound of penne pasta. In the same sun dried tomato olive oil saute some minced garlic. Then add the garlic, chicken, some low sodium chicken broth, fresh basil, and sun dried tomatoes to the pasta. Cook that together until it's warm and then put onto a plate. Grate fresh Parmesan cheese on and add roasted pine nuts, salt, and pepper. Yes, the people that didn't show missed an awesome meal. If want the exact recipe just ask!
The next day I had a club swim meet at princeton. The club team is certainly no conn college camels swim team, which is quickly moving up the nescac rankings, but it's fun nonetheless. I had never been to princeton and man is it gorgeous. The host team was also kind enough to provide people who placed in events with full size candy bars! How come we never got candy in college for winning? Maybe some extra incentive would be worthwhile, you do get pretty hungry at swim meets....Anyway, our next club meet is at Penn State. There are some pretty exciting things going on this week at Penn so I'll be back with more. My thanksgiving back in the land of cheese and beer was pretty awesome and I hope everyone else had an enjoyable holiday too!

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Now that I have an apartment, although I share it with some apartmentmates, I can do fun things that you can't do in a dorm. For example, we have a dog. Her name is sweety, I have no idea what kind of dog she is, but it's one of those bigger kinds. Whenever you walk in the door she is so unbelievably excited to see you that she wags her entire butt while her tail whacks her face. It's not my dog so I have all the benefits of having a dog without having to take care of it!
Another cool thing about having a real live apartment is a full kitchen. With my full kitchen I have decided to start having dinner parties (don't judge me, it's a great way to save money). So I'm having one this friday 11/16 with a whole ton of bioethics students. Dorms are great because you don't have to clean up after yourself, which many conn students take full advantage of, but I can have dinner parties. Dinner parties? Don't have to clean up after yourself? Dinner parties? Don't have to clean up after yourself? I live in an apartment so I'll take what I can get. They're also a fun way to meet people and it lets people show off their cooking/drink making skills if they bring something interesting to share.
The most fantabulous part of our apartment is its view. Philly maybe carcinogenic, but it's skyline is really beautiful at night. Our apartment is on the 10th floor of a west Philly apartment building so we have an awesome view of the entire city. Maybe next time I'll talk about my classes, but that's enough for now.

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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!

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