Skills For Your Future
In 6 months from now all of you juniors (class of 2018) will be starting a month-long internship somewhere in San Diego’s south bay....
Why blog?
Why am I blogging? Although I shared in class why I have chosen to blog this year instead of posting a week ahead, recently I realized...
It is what it is. Right?
This past week I asked students to navigate the role of being a scientist and artist when looking at alstroemeria flowers I bought at...
Not Just Role-Playing
To think like a scientist you have to start with a question and finish with more curiosity than when you began. Designing a science...
What do you want to do when you grow up?
Why do I call myself a Latina scientist? Aside from having worked in the drug discovery team at a pharmaceutical company for nearly ten...
A Vision for the Semester
Hard to believe that we wrapped up just the third week of school after such an eventful week - we began learning about the reproductive...
Preparing to Identify as a Scientist
After reading my students responses to a brief Getting to Know You questionnaire I learned most had not taken a biology course since 7th...
The Joy of Play
Joy. Risk-taking. Creativity. These are the words I would pick to describe the first week of school. Hit 8:15am and students had packed...
I May Need to Count Sheep Tonight
It’s exactly 12 hours before waking up for the first day of school and I’m nervously excited. Regardless of how many years have passed...
