MPH Global Epidemiology, RSPH 2024 | If I'm not doing epi, I'm probably on a mountain 🥾🌵
Atlanta, GA
Joined February 2018
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I love starting a new fantasy series because you'll hear a sentence like "they were cursed by the goddess" and....is it a metaphor? Superstition? Fantasy racism? Or an actual literal curse by an actual literal goddess? Who knows! Not me!
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If I had a nickel every time a teenage girl essentially invented a literary genre I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
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Last Saturday, I graduated with my MPH in Global Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health with a certificate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. It has been a truly amazing and life-changing 2 years, and I can't wait to see what's next!
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Nikki Mastrud, MPH retweeted
“Starting Friday, the country is implementing a nationwide vaccination drive hoping to inoculate 3.2 million people and encourage residents to eradicate stagnant water sources, known breeding grounds for mosquitoes.” usatoday.com/story/travel/ne…
I once had a professor respond to my question "do you think I *should* do grad school" with "I think you're *going* to do grad school"
academics: the market is horrible. do not go to grad school. I have 36 publications and the only job I got was a 4/4 in a county where the primary industry is racism. I am suicidial daily
22-26 year olds: wow, that is so bad. it's a real problem. luckily though, I am built diffe
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Every year around Halloween I remember that as a kid, I always sorted my candy like a bar graph after trick or treating.
What I'm saying is, even 20 years ago, I was pretty on-brand 🎃
A while back I saw someone post about doing a community-science style acitivity with an undergraduate (maybe high school?) lab class, having students do tick-borne disease testing which contributed to real surveillance data (iirc)
Does anyone know who/where this was?
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I am So Normal about the Doctor Who 60th anniversary. I reacted very Normally to the trailer. I am a Normal level of excited about David Tennant.
So Normal about this
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Tragic: I tried to make a doctor who reference in class and the kids (grown adults in college) just looked at me confused
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I have been threatened with arson more times than I think is normal for the first 2 weeks of school
In related news, I'm never starting an R script with setwd() ever again
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Love when a 2-day intensive course is on Rosh Hashanah. I can really feel the inclusivity.🙃There were so many other weekends, ya know? Like, how is there somehow a class conflict when BOTH high holidays are on weekends this year.
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