At popular request, I am going to update a little bit on the goings on in my life.
As many of you know, I am back in the United States for a somewhat indefinite period of time. At the moment, I am a PhD student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Since PhDs are a little more amorphous than MDs and JDs there isnt necessarily a certain timeline that Im working under at the moment. So at least for the next year and a half to three and a half years, I will be a resident of Baltimore. Thats not so bad I suppose. Its no Africa, especially given the past month of what seems like near constant blizzards, but I do live next to a grocery store that sells salsa, hummus, chips, and fake chicken nuggets. So could things be worse? Yeah, definitely.
Right now I am mostly taking required classes and a lot of math. No one told me that getting a PhD in Public Health was basically getting a PhD in complex math, but it sure seems like it now. Thats a little known secret folks, so I am entrusting it to you. I am also working with my advisor on a series of papers for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. We are examining the database they have compiled but never used to look at the reproductive health of refugees. So far its pretty slow going. It seems like with the blizzards, most of our motivation has gone out the window.
And so with that, I want to leave a link to some blizzard photos.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2032087&id=48101028&l=0d84dbf4a0
And I will try to update more often. I didnt realize that anyone really read this! So I will try to write a little bit about what its like being a graduate student and a resident of the other coast.
