January 2022
A new semester, and another month of remote learning! First, Ida and now Omicron. Personally, I have found that I am most successful with in-person learning overall. While attending a lecture in your pajamas has its own appeal, I've found it can be difficult to maintain focus when staring at a screen for several hours a day. For me, it's quite a bit easier to engage with lectures and discussions when physically present in the classroom. While I'm sure others can feel differently, I also struggle with presentations over Zoom compared to an in-person presentation to the class; there is something about the absence of audience feedback in a Zoom presentation that I find unnerving. With the new semester also came several new courses in the curriculum. So far, I have found all of them to be interesting and full of new information. I am a big fan of presentation-based courses; I think that being able to present scientific findings is a really important learned skill set that doesn