{"id":157,"date":"2021-04-05T23:04:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/khcblog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2021-04-05T23:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T03:05:35","slug":"a-day-in-my-life-as-a-biomedical-engineering-major-and-pre-med-in-kilachand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/khcblog\/2021\/04\/05\/a-day-in-my-life-as-a-biomedical-engineering-major-and-pre-med-in-kilachand\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in My Life as a Biomedical Engineering Major and Pre-med in Kilachand!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Emma Hartman (ENG\u201923)<\/p>\n

5:40 AM:<\/strong> I wake up. OK, OK: don\u2019t panic reading this — as hard as it is to believe, this is something I do to myself willingly and for reasons completely unrelated to academics. My favorite hot yoga class is at 6 am on Wednesdays at a yoga studio less than 5 minutes from my dorm. There are other yoga classes at normal times, but I really like this one.<\/p>\n

6 AM:<\/strong> Hot Yoga! I started practicing yoga about a month ago to shake up my routine and quickly got addicted. I use it to manage my stress, stay in shape, and as something fun and COVID safe that I can do with friends.<\/p>\n

7 AM:<\/strong> I take my time on the walk back to my dorm. I live in a safe area that\u2019s incredibly pretty in the morning and I\u2019m trying to enjoy it more. When I get back to my brownstone, I make some breakfast (I\u2019m currently training in the art of microwave-based cooking) and shower before class.<\/p>\n

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Beacon Street in the morning, right by South Campus.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

9 AM:<\/strong> I arrive at the George Sherman Union (GSU), our student center, before my first class and meet up with my friend Sarah. Our Differential Equations lecture is remote learning only this semester, but we meet up to get Starbucks, catch up, and to take the class together in the library attached to the GSU. We claim that we keep each other accountable and focused, but we almost always wind up talking during the slow parts of class.<\/p>\n

10 AM:<\/strong> Sarah and I leave the GSU and walk to our next classes together. I have my Cell Biology and Biotechnology lecture, where I run into Natalia, one of my friends from Kilachand. We met during our first semester of freshman year in a Kilachand seminar on Latin American music. I met a lot of engineers in that class since we all took it to fulfill the same HUB units. I still see a lot of them in my engineering classes or around campus!<\/p>\n

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Socially distanced Biology lecture in Agganis.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/em>12 PM:<\/strong> My lecture is over, and I want some lunch. Some days I\u2019ll stay by Agganis Arena, where my lecture was, and eat with my friend Karolyn who lives in West Campus. Other days, I\u2019ll head back eastward and eat with my friends Chloe and Sarah, who are studying at the GSU. No matter where I am, I always try and use meals as a time to see my friends.<\/p>\n

1 PM:<\/strong> I head into the BU biomedical engineering research lab that I work in. We study mice to learn more about the neural circuits in the brain responsible for movement. Right now, I\u2019m working with a PhD student on her latest project. Together we\u2019ve been training our 3 mice\u2014Matcha, Mocha, and Macchiato\u2014to perform different behavioral tasks. Once they\u2019re trained, we use electrophysiology probes and optogenetic techniques to record neural activity in different parts of their brains (basically: we stick a sensor into a genetically engineered mouse\u2019s brain and choose what areas of the brain we want to record data from by using a laser to selectively silence groups of brain cells). I ask my grad student a truly annoying number of questions about the research, and she answers every last one because she\u2019s genuinely happy to help me learn.<\/p>\n

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My lab mouse Matcha is in her tube and ready for training!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/em><\/em>4 PM:<\/strong> It\u2019s time to log onto Zoom for my HUB co-curricular<\/a>, a course that I take in tandem with KHC HC 302<\/a>. We teach Boston high schoolers about public health through a local program called Boston Area Health Education Center<\/a>. It\u2019s a great way to give back to the local community, learn more about public health and the Boston Public School system, and secure a coveted HUB unit.<\/p>\n

6 PM:<\/strong> I log off of Zoom and knock on my roommate Iris\u2019s door. We\u2019re off to go find dinner so we can bring it back home, eat on the couch, and talk about our days. Sometimes we put on an episode of Grey\u2019s Anatomy or the Bachelor while we eat<\/p>\n

7 PM:<\/strong> I do some homework and answer some emails for my Girls Who Code club.<\/p>\n

8 PM:<\/strong> I log onto Zoom office hours for my engineering mechanics class. I work on my homework and private message my friend Jenny, who\u2019s also here because she\u2019s struggling with problem #7 too.<\/p>\n

9 PM:<\/strong> My roommate wanders back out to our couch and wants to figure out our weekend plans. We bring our laptops to the couch and work while we talk. Eventually, we either finish or abandon our work and just relax.<\/p>\n

10:15 PM:<\/strong> I start getting ready for bed, write in my journal about the day, and look at my color-coded Google Calendar as I write in my planner about tomorrow. Tomorrow\u2019s schedule is incredibly different, but no less exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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