{"id":2,"date":"2011-11-26T19:34:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T19:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/oogiantheorem\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-02-09T01:54:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T08:54:41","slug":"epiphany","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/oogiantheorem\/epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"Epiphany: How I became interested in the history of science and medicine."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Moi! :.)<\/p>\n

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Back in the day, after two aimless years of postsecondary and a year off for good measure, my older brother gave me the idea that I should become a nurse. It was easy for him to come to such a conclusion – after all, I’d been helping nurse our dad’s ever-worsening rheumatoid arthritis\u00a0since late high school. What neither of us knew were the consequences that would come from the failed pre-nursing biology course and the high marks that I got in the introduction to the history of science and the history of Chinese medicine courses that I took that year.\u00a0Suddenly I had a reason for schooling and a reason to wake up each morning with a grin on my face. Although my average was extremely low from my first few years of university, I managed to bring up my average to a passing grade (yes, I was just that unproductive before I knew about the history of science and medicine.)<\/p>\n

Next, becoming multilingual became meaningful – as one must pick a region of the world to focus their studies on, and primary sources aren’t often in English in non-English-speaking parts of the world. Admittedly I’ve had trouble with this in the past, failing both French and Spanish due to the fear of screwing up in front of lots of people, but to conquer my fear I’ve been learning\u00a0h\u0259n\u0313q\u0313\u0259min\u0313\u0259m\u0313 (a Coastal Salish language) at the Musqueam reserve, and succeeding. It’s probably not a language that I’ll use in the future, as I’m more fascinated with “The East” than “The West,” but what’s better than learning a language in the environment where it’s most used? Perhaps I’ll go teach English in China for a year or two before entering grad-school to learn Mandarin.<\/p>\n

I had my epiphany last year, and as my average is now within grad-school range, \u00a0I plan continue to produce A’s EVERYWHERE (AKA sleep no where) and make my dreams possible for a masters and eventually a PhD.\u00a0This blog will be full of attempts of adding insight to the my future field, using multiple mediums, from academic writing, to drawing, to screen-play.<\/div>\n
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Thanks to my older brother for unintentionally setting me on the right path, even if I only got 45% \u00a0in biology 153.<\/div>\n
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All work posted on this blog is mine – if you steal it, not only is it illegal and\u00a0plagiarism, but professors tend to be ninjas when it comes to work posted on blogs and you’ll probably get caught. \u00a0This work is copyright \u00a9\u00a0Sarah Keller 2010-2012.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Moi! :.)               Back in the day, after two aimless years of postsecondary and a year off for good measure, my older brother gave me the idea that I should become a nurse. It was easy for him to come to such a conclusion – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8854,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/oogiantheorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/oogiantheorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/oogiantheorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/oogiantheorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/oogiantheorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/oogiantheorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/oogiantheorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/oogiantheorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}