• Netted iris flower bloom with purple and yellow highlights with closed blooms in the background.
    blog post - mph journey - week in review

    🗓 week in review – spring 2025, week 10

    March 31, 2025

    Monday, March 24 – Sunday, March 30 what did I do this week? This week was a return to normalcy in my class routines. Spring break is now in the rear view and so are my fleeting gaming sessions, hasta luego Fields of Mistria. This week’s course content was fairly light for one of my classes which I appreciate as it gave me time to adjust to re-managing two courses this semester. Highlighted resources that were discussed in this week’s lectures: I also took some time to write my first long post for the blog. what worked? Believe it or…

  • A view of lush green tree canopies exhibiting crown shyness where leaves and branches do not overlap one another.
    blog post - librarianship

    i’m…a librarian: separating our professional and personal identities

    March 29, 2025

    Post context: I’ve recently added “medical librarianship” to the subtitle of this blog, but in doing so, I also want to share some insights into this label by reflecting on how the professional and personal have played a role in my life. This blog is a fluid project for me so things may change and when they do, I’ll try to provide more context to you, fellow reader. This is my longest post to date, but I hope the insights help to provide a moment of self-reflection in thinking how the professional and personal manifests in your life. Since the…

  • Gray and Brown Building on Body of Water Under Cloudy Sky during Daytime
    blog post - blog ruins - blogosphere

    blog ruins in the academy

    March 12, 2025

    I absolutely love coming across old blogs, you know, the ones that still exist on the internet, maybe they were published in the height of the blogosphere around the 2010s and slowly died out a few years later. They haven’t been updated in years, and yet, they offer some good words of wisdom, kernels of knowledge, or hold a bundle of blog posts filled with interesting reads. Whenever I come across one, I feel like a virtual urban explorer (“urbex“) winding my way through blog posts, reading the authors’ bios, and wondering, “hey, whatever happened to this person?” What new…

  • A set of beach squirrels lounging on the sandy cliffs overlooking Huntington Dog Beach
    blog post - mph journey - week in review

    🗓 week in review – spring 2025, week 7

    March 12, 2025

    Monday, March 3 – Sunday, March 9 what did I do this week? This past week was a stressful one, primarily because I had my first mid-term since returning back to school. In the course of a week, I had to turn in my mid-term participation notes, my module 6 participation notes, a group assignment, complete a midterm, complete an assignment post-mid term and follow-up on my group assignment coding project. By Sunday morning, my brain resembled a blob fish out of water. what worked? If I can help it, by far, starting early was the best technique in getting…