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by CaseyPosted onMarch 22, 2020September 13, 2021Academics

Graduating in the Middle of a Pandemic

January, 2018 In a lab class required for all life science majors at UCLA, we studied epidemiology. The experiment involved transferring bacteria through handshakes. One…

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New York City
by CaseyPosted onFebruary 2, 2020September 2, 2020Academics

Exercises in Style

As a freshman in college, I took my first creative writing class. We had an assignment to write a piece based off of Exercises in…

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by CaseyPosted onJanuary 27, 2020August 27, 2020Academics

What I Wish I’d Known Before Becoming a Neuroscience Major

As I was entering college, I was fascinated with the idea of this field of study with little knowledge as to what it means to…

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by CaseyPosted onDecember 6, 2019January 2, 2021Personal Narratives

A Frosty Morning in Lund, Sweden

I bike to class every morning, not because I want to be fit, but because I’m lazy and cheap. If I wanted to take the…

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Utrecht, Netherlands
by CaseyPosted onDecember 2, 2019August 28, 2020Travel1 Comment on Day Trips from Amsterdam: Haarlem, Delft, and Utrecht

Day Trips from Amsterdam: Haarlem, Delft, and Utrecht

My sister lives in Amsterdam. It’s a nice, clean city, lots of bikes, most of my friends want to go to do drugs. I have…

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The Eiffel Tower at night
by CaseyPosted onNovember 5, 2019September 18, 2020Travel

A Few Thoughts on Paris

On the Parisian Stereotype To be fully honest, I was afraid to go to Paris, not just because I was alone, but also because of…

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by CaseyPosted onOctober 24, 2019December 2, 2019Academics

Artists Who Died Before Their Fame: Anne Frank and Vincent Van Gogh

Two of the most popular attractions in Amsterdam are the Anne Frank House and the Van Gogh Museum. I had the privilege of visiting both…

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by CaseyPosted onOctober 19, 2019Travel

A Few Thoughts On Belgium

From broken umbrellas in pouring rain to creepy roommates who stare at you in the middle of the night, Murphy’s Law (anything that can go…

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Ale Stenar, Kåseberga, Sweden
by CaseyPosted onOctober 6, 2019September 12, 2020Travel

Day Trips from Lund, Sweden: Ale Stenar

Getting to Ale Stenar isn’t easy, or if there is an easier way, we definitely didn’t take it. I set off with a group of…

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by CaseyPosted onOctober 2, 2019September 20, 2020Academics

A Few Thoughts on Study Abroad

In class the other day, one of my professors asked me where I’ve been traveling. I told him that I went to Paris last weekend,…

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