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...problems is the challenge of maintaining your self-confidence when you just fell short of the midterm mean, despite an honest effort. This sort of experience can be devastating to even the most grounded of Harvard’s science talents. It is not uncommon for a sophomore pre-med or biology concentrator to have 20 to 25 hours of class and labs per week, leaving little time for self-reflection, let alone mental health therapy. Pressure escalates and feelings of hopelessness abound, yet relief seems to be nowhere in sight. Honest recognition of this problem is the first step...
...None. “She puts the money in my pocket,” Shahram adds, “I can’t do math. That’s why I went to med school...
...disappointed when students stopped complaining around the 70s. People came into his class already thinking they were pre-med and had to just take notes and get an A,” said his son Elijah Wald. “He believed every educated person should understand Hamlet and the Second Law of Thermodynamics...
...AIDS Coalition (HAC) member Matthew F. Basilico ’08, is characteristic of Connie E. Chen ’08—and perhaps misleading. A snapshot of Chen’s resume reveals a person of Herculean capabilities: a Detur Book Prize winner, John Harvard Scholar, pre-med econ major interviewing for both medical schools and consulting firms (just landing a job at McKinsey & Co.) who has also spent one summer drafting a $31 million grant for malaria and AIDS intervention in Cambodia, another documenting sex workers in Kenya, and the times in between working in various organizations...
...Genotek's main customers are medical researchers, Big Pharma companies developing drugs that can be tailored to individuals, and researchers involved in large genetic studies. Chaim Birnboim, a research scientist and med-school professor who developed Oragene, knew there was demand for a simple, noninvasive DNA-collection method, "and I thought, I can do that." The trick was discovering that saliva was a rich source of DNA that could be easily stabilized. The product could have important implications for law enforcement, forensic sciences and the military. Individuals may even want an Oragene kit to preserve a bit of a loved...