AnthroManTalks

I just started Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer, and the first few chapters have already made me rethink how I see disease. It’s not just about biology or germs. It’s about where people live, how much money they have, and what kind of systems they’re stuck in. It's very much dependent on the diasporic community in which one lives. One thing that stood out to me is how Farmer connects things like tuberculosis and HIV to poverty (wrote one of my s

The past couple of weeks have been pretty surreal. College decisions are finally starting to come out, and it’s starting to feel real that the next chapter of my life is right around the corner. So far, I’ve been accepted to UPitt, UC Merced, Villanova, and Occidental. Just a few days ago I also got into UC Riverside and UC Santa Cruz, and yesterday I opened my portal (super late at night, too) and saw that I got into UDub! Seeing those acceptances pop up has honestly been su

We’re officially five out of six meetings into Science Alliance this year, and it finally feels like things are super smooth. The first few meetings were all about getting every buddy’s project approved. We had to make sure their questions were testable, their variables were clear, and that they had a realistic way to collect quantitative data. A lot of them start with big ideas like “How does sleep affect people?” and we have to help them narrow it down into something measur

I finally did it. Every single essay, supplemental, activity description. Submitted. Done. I don’t think I realized how much room college apps were taking up in my head until I hit that final submit button. For months, it’s been drafts and redrafts, late night edits, rereading the same 634 words until they didn’t even sound like English anymore. My Notes app is full of random ideas I wrote at the most random times of day because I thought they might turn into something meanin