I’m writing this post after reading this article from the Harvard Gazette, which discussed how the first personalized gene therapy was developed for a newborn baby with severe CPS1 deficiency, a rare genetic disorder that causes buildup of ammonia in…

10¹⁴. It’s a large number – one hundred trillion to be exact. To put that into perspective, one year contains approximately 3.15 × 10⁷ seconds, so to get to 10¹⁴ seconds, that would take about three million years.

She sat with one leg folded on top of the other, her eyes fixated on a stack of square neon sheets of paper. I’ve seen her before – if not in class, then mostly at the library. Always with headphones…

The wind rustled the leaves on the tree branches that hung over my head as I walked down the circular, marble stairs. Suddenly, a sight made me take a step back – a squirrel.

I haven’t been feeling very creative recently (hence this “hook” doesn’t have much to it).  I think a lot of it has to do with how busy college has become since the new semester started, especially with classes. I feel…