How I stumbled upon my minor…

In all honesty, lab science was probably the requirement for the Nine Ways of Knowing I was least looking forward to as an incoming first-year. When I was making my schedule for each semester last year, I made a distinct effort to avoid lab science courses. Fall of my sophomore year I decided it was [...]

Gender in the Classroom

In my Behavioral Neuroscience lab this morning, my Professor began the class by making a reference that I was not expecting: Lawrence Summers, the former President of Harvard University.  My professor was using Lawrence Summer’s notorious comments about males’ versus females’ achievements in the sciences and a possible innate gender difference in brains to introduce [...]

A Greener Barnard

It has been so exciting to be an EcoRep for the First Years at Barnard. Last week the director of the First Year Focus Program, Steve Tolman, gave the EcoReps the official tour of the newly renovated suite in 600 W. 116th street (0ne of the Barnard dorms that is apartment/suite-style living with multiple bedrooms [...]

Lessons in Chemistry

My mom told me once, “It only takes one drop of water to make the bucket overflow.” That was the first thing I thought about when I spilled half of my camphor reaction mixture on myself during last Wednesday lab. That spill of a mere 20mL of solution made a reservoir of tears that I [...]

Some more about me…

Hello Barnard Class of 2012!
First off, CONGRATULATIONS!! I’m so excited to be blogging about my life at Barnard, and I’m even more excited to hear from you all through the blog and the upcoming open houses on campus! I just came back from Spring Break, so I don’t have much to blog about with life [...]

Spring Break

There’s nothing like a traditional Greek playlist on iTunes, an iced coffee and Marjorie Venit’s Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria.
While everyone else is finishing up with midterms and getting ready to take a break for a mere nine days, I get to stay here in beautiful Egypt for what I like to call my Spring [...]