We Need to Stop Pretending Exams Make Us Educated

It’s past midnight. My tea’s gone cold, and I’m staring at the ceiling searching for all the answers that I never had.Image by Raymond Petrik on UnsplashI’ve spent years studying Physics ,deriving equations, solving for x, memorizing laws of motion l...

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Apr 28, 2025
We Won’t Even Know What We Don’t Know

Overcoming fear at an NIH study sectionHildabast, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsFrom about 2000 to 2006, I was one of about twenty other infectious diseases researcher on an NIH infectious d...

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Apr 28, 2025
This Breath A Teacher

A poem I wrote on mindfulness, reasoning behind it, and the wisdom that can be found in the simple act of breathing.Continue reading on EduCreate »

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Apr 28, 2025
The Benefits of Sleep-Away Camp: On Day One

Photo by Siriwan Srisuwan on UnsplashShared Responsibility and LeadershipIndependence and Self-ConfidenceEmotional Intelligence and EmpathyCommunication and CooperationWouldn’t it be wonderful if we all came hard-wired with these skills?Before I went...

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Apr 25, 2025