You’ve probably heard the horror stories- long nights, rotten data, thousands and thousands of words to write. I am not going to sit here and say that this will be easy. If you’re doing it right (or wrong, I suppose this also holds true in that case), putting together a Thesis is one of the… Read more »
Month: December 2024
Summer Camp: Remaking Foster Care
Children in the foster care system face a slew of challenges ranging from instability in the home to uncertain access to food and limited prospects for higher education. The current structure of resources and programming in the system has proven thus far to be insufficient to address these and other concerns of the youth it… Read more »
Procrastinators, Click Here!
I’m a born and raised procrastinator. I coasted through high school on the philosophy of “the due date is the do date”, and made it through with a 4.2 GPA. For most of college, I was able to do the same, and I’m sure that if you’re reading this, you’re in the same boat. I’m… Read more »
Phytoplankton and Public Health: Lake Monroe’s Implications for Managing Freshwater Ecosystems
(Photo: Aerial Associates Photography, Inc. by Zachary Haslick) Algae holds a valuable position in telling us about the health of a freshwater supply as well as the communities depending on it. For Lake Monroe, a reservoir just southeast of Bloomington, Indiana, and the city’s primary drinking water source, phytoplankton can serve as an early… Read more »
Prepare, Plan, and be Ready to Abandon
Unfortunately, Murphy’s law- the rule that anything can go wrong will- applies to the thesis writing process. The best advice I can offer to someone starting on this journey is to plan carefully, prepare well, and be ready to abandon any aforementioned plans. The ability to pivot, and come up with a new plan on… Read more »
From Aid to Instability: How Foreign Arms Empower Coup d’Etats in Sub-Saharan Africa
In June 2023, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Jonathon Braga met with Niger’s Brigadier General Moussa Salaou Barmou at Air Base 101, a site bolstered by $158 million in U.S. arms sales since 2017. Just weeks later, General Barmou led a military coup that ousted Niger’s democratically elected president, reportedly using U.S.-provided weapons. Sub-Saharan Africa is… Read more »
Don’t Fear the Code
While taking V491, I realized I would need to use quantitative methods for my research. This was intimidating. I’ve never been one to willingly take math classes and didn’t know my way around a computer. I was steeling myself to pivot mid-semester if everything fell apart due to my lack of coding skills. That didn’t… Read more »
What were the Impacts of International Accountability Mechanisms on the Philippine War on Drugs?
Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now there are three million drug addicts … I’d be happy to slaughter them.” –Rodrigo Duterte This chilling quote is from former President Rodrigo Duterte and encapsulates the brutal rhetoric that defined the Philippine War on Drugs. The Philippine War on Drugs is a bloody anti-drug campaign that spanned from… Read more »
The Effect of Conflict on the Education of Young Girls
In 2014, 276 girls were kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Nigeria by an armed group. Since then, 1,600 children have been abducted or kidnapped across northern Nigeria, many of them while in school or on their way to school. Education is vital to ensuring that countries’ economies are able to grow and succeed. Education… Read more »
Breaking Barriers: How Telehealth is Shaping the Future of Healthcare
In 2020, the world turned upside down as the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the way we think about healthcare. Among its most significant shifts was the rapid adoption of telehealth services, which created a digital bridge between patients and providers as a temporary solution to the accessibility challenges the world was facing. While telehealth was not… Read more »