Dopamine Fasting on the Weekend
Dopamine Fasting on the Weekend I tried a “dopamine fast” last weekend because I felt like my brain was constantly fried from too much stimulation. The idea is basically to cut out all the “cheap thrills” that give you a quick hit of the feel-good chemical. No social media, noContinue Reading
AI and the Death of the Entry-Level Job
AI and the Death of the Entry-Level Job There is a nervous energy among the seniors in my department lately, and it isn’t just about finals. It is about the fact that a lot of the “entry-level” tasks we used to do to get our foot in the door areContinue Reading
Loneliness: The Quiet Public Health Crisis
Loneliness: The Quiet Public Health Crisis When we talk about “public health,” we usually picture sterile hospital hallways, vaccination clinics, or the spread of a new virus. We rarely think about the person sitting alone in a crowded cafeteria or the silence of a house at the end of aContinue Reading
The Gift of Time: How Biomedical Tech is Saving More Lives Through Transplantation
The Gift of Time: How Biomedical Tech is Saving More Lives Through Transplantation Organ transplantation has always been a medical miracle—a literal second chance at life for those with failing hearts, kidneys, or lungs. However, for a long time, this miracle was shadowed by a brutal clock. Once an organContinue Reading
The Resume of Failures
The Resume of Failures We spend so much time polishing our LinkedIn profiles and making sure our resumes look like a perfect streak of wins. We list the Dean’s List, the high-status internships, and the leadership titles, but we never talk about the fifty applications that got ghosted or theContinue Reading