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So I’m going over my expenses over the entire expenses in order to budget for trips/entertainment and I’m seriously considering not going to Coachella so that I don’t have to ask my parents for some money when I move out…..I’ve been lucky enough to be financially independent (but I do cut corners and ask my parents for money sometimes). I don’t want to have to ask for a large sum of money because I haven’t had to do that yet, and I don’t have enough hours at my job to do it. HOW MUCH MONEY SHOULD I HAVE SAVED UP TO MOVE TO AN ENTIRELY NEW PLACE BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW AND I DIDN’T THINK I WOULD HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS UNTIL FOREVER.
jkay. i dont want to move anywhere new. Let my parents help me cover my living expenses forever because I miss food. IVE EATEN FROZEN FOOD FOR TOO MANY MEALS. Also, would it be wrong for me to assume I will get graduation money? should that be included in my budget or is that a jerk move? WHY IS BUDGETING SO FUCKING HARD LIKE WHY CAN’T SOMEONE JUST DO IT FOR ME FOR FREE AND WITH NO JUDGEMENT BECAUSE I HAVE WEAK MOMENTS WHERE I SPEND MONEY ON USELESS THINGS?
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Total Eclipse of the Heart
So I tried to write a blog post about STEM and liberal arts, and it’s pretty fucking long. i know tumblr is supposed to be short form blogging, but I really enjoyed it. There are moments that I have (not entirely) original ideas. It was actually really fun and it made me think a lot harder about how and what I wanted to say, which might be useful in my classes. I can’t believe I’m waiting until my last semester to make an effort to participate in discussions, but that’s what’s happening.
I also wanted to confess that I know the university and society is wasting it’s resources in educating me in the hard sciences. There is a reason why I’m not doing well in those classes and it’s kinda because I don’t exactly deserve to do it, BUT I’m going to try my best to put all the knowledge that I have to good use. There is a lot of guilt when I sit in my classes and learn about things to such a detail that I don’t really care about. Let me tell you, I’ve spent HOURS memorizing the mechanism for bacterial flagella to fucking ROTATE. Also, when I’m playing around with very expensive lab equipment and messing up on measuring antibodies so I have to get a new batch. I’m not paying my university enough money to clean up after my lab mishaps and I know it.
Even though I constantly complain about how expensive school is, but this is just for me. I’m sure my classmates don’t feel this way.
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STEM & Liberal Arts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/02/18/we-dont-need-more-stem-majors-we-need-more-stem-majors-with-liberal-arts-training/
I came across this very insightful article about the intersection of STEM and liberal arts, which encapsulated everything I feel about my curriculum here at school. Granted, this doesn’t sum up everything I’m thinking about in terms of education, education, but Dr. Hayes does a good job about intersecting STEM and society.I’ll start by saying that I’m first and foremost I’m studying Public Health with an emphasis in Health Policy and Management. I’m also minoring in Public Policy because I think the faculty is great and I learn a lot about how it shapes society and health outcomes. In my second year of school, I listened a great guest speaker talk about the intersection of science and public health– that science needs to be accessible to the public. I knew it was important to disseminate scientific knowledge in a digestible way (so that stupid people won’t use a dumb study not to vaccinate their kids), but I never though I could possibly be that gap. Then I was lucky enough to come across a class that inspired me to get into the sciences, so now I am also majoring Molecular Cell Biology with an emphasis in Infectious Disease.
My education has been such a journey over the last 4 years. No one decides to double major and minor without having a good plan or reason. There are overachievers of course, but I wouldn’t necessarily classify myself as one. I normally don’t try to mention it to others because it sets me up to be that ‘nerdy overachieving asian’ as if being 'small and quiet’ isn’t enough of an uphill battle in terms of stereotyping. To be absolutely honest, I do pretty poorly in my science classes and am overall, quite a mediocre student in all other respects. But when I do get the chance to explain to others why I’m studying what I’m studying, I want them to know that there’s a huge intersection between everything I’m studying. It’s called society.
I kid. That’s a little dramatic, but society isn’t cut into nice little boxes where people can choose what sector they want to participate in. Yes, have a specialization, but understand what your role as a whole contributes to intersecting lives. This point is what I’m trying to engrain in my friends who are studying medicine (yes, all those premed freaks). A lot of people criticize them for having tunnel vision– which is true for a lot of them because there’s a lot of pressure in going to med school, but I look at people in my classes all the time and I wouldn’t want ANY of them to be my doctor. Going off most of my conversations, a lot of them don’t think about what it means to be a doctor. There’s an innocent answer “I just want to help people”, but even though I’m very patient and I try to dissect the reasons, I’m still dissatisfied. I’m not saying everyone who wants to practice medicine needs to have life changing experiences, but if not, they need to spend some time really deconstructing their reason for dedicating their lives to medicine. Let’s face it, they are choosing to study and train for years, but society as a whole is investing in them. Taxpayers are subsidizing their education too! Why would does society want a doctor that’s just going to plug and chug what they’ve learned until they can optimize my health?
For everything we put into these doctors, I really think that we deserve more. I think it’s so important for our doctors to study sociology and ethnic studies and ethics and philosophy– get that liberal arts training. Granted it’s a lot to put on a person, and I’m not saying that they need to be experts, but i really think everyone should value a doctor that breaks down the 4 walls of medicine and inserts themselves into the community. I shouldn’t be the person to tell you that people aren’t fucking vaccinating their kids in MARIN COUNTY or that trends in healthcare or that health does not equal healthcare. If you’re going to practice medicine, you should be having conversations about what you’ll be doing, not just cramming all the time. Berkeley is a great place to learn about these things because we’re so focused on social justice, and health can be a way to measure or a goal for social justice.
i obviously want my doctor to know what they’re doing and be good at science and such. If it were up to me, I think that med schools should ask their colleagues whether or not they were an asshole. If they answered yes, then maybe we should only let me be doctors if we feel like they were so smart and their eventual expertise would redeem their assholery. I spend a lot of time thinking about this since I share so many science classes with others. I have a lot of feelings about this and this is something I see in the eventual scientists in my classes. They’re really smart and talented, but they’re assholes. Granted having an asshole for a doctor is a much worse evil than having the scientific researcher who discovered your diabetes medicine be an asshole.
I hear a lot of people in my classes complain about their breath requirements– saying that humanities and liberal arts are such a joke and it makes me really sad to think that these people are going to be driving our nation into 'innovation’ with that mindset.
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