Spring Break
Hello everyone!
First, I would like to congratulate all the prospective students who have been accepted into Schreyer’s class of 2020! I can’t believe it has already been a year since I made what seemed to be the impossible and I could not have chosen a better school to spend the next four years of my life. As for those who have not been accepted, do not be discouraged. Schreyer is an extremely competitive school and whatever school you choose to go to will be a great fit for you as long as you put in the required effort to make the most out of your college experience.
It is almost the end of spring break so I think it would be good to give an overview of what I have done so far.
I left State College on Saturday morning last week with my roommate Nakul and went to his aunt’s and uncle’s place in Hershey, PA. We rested on Saturday and on Sunday morning at 6am we caught a train to get to Philadelphia. We spent the day in Phillie and had the chance to visit both the Benjamin Franklin Museum and the University of Pennsylvania. I had a lot of fun, especially at the Benjamin Franklin Museum as they had a Neuroscience exposition :DDD
We then went back to Hershey in the evening traveling in a Megabus, a very cheap transportation that can get you in any big city on the North-East Coast of the United States.
On Monday, I had the privilege to tour Hershey Medical Center, where Penn State’s School of Medicine is situated and hopefully where I will spend my summer through Hershey’s MD/PhD summer exposure program. Both Nakul’s uncle and aunt work at the cancer center therefore I had the ability to tour most of the center and to meet a couple of neurosurgeons and neuroscientist. On Monday evening I took a Megabus to go back to state college and spent the week working in my research laboratory to perfect my surgical techniques and manage to perform a full survival surgery on a rodent without any supervision.
I had a fun and productive spring break, hopefully everyone’s will go as well as mine!
Peace!