Category Archives for School
MCW Cycling Club site
I just updated the MCW Cycling Club site. Previously, it ran completely from my own hosting service. This worked okay, but required a lot of work to add new pages since I was literally doing the HTML coding by hand. … Continue reading
MCW Cycling Club
Since no one checks my Scott, Future MD blog since I’ve never updated it, I’d just like to use this opportunity to mention that as my 2nd year of medical school comes to an end, I will be updating it … Continue reading
Esthesioneuroblastoma
So Google Web History has a feature called Interesting Items. Google saves your search history (only when logged into your Gmail/Google account) and then analyzes it to determine the “recent top queries related to your searches.” I must have been … Continue reading
How Proteus Saved Lives in World War II
I’m currently studying for an upcoming microbiology exam on bacteriology and wanted to quick comment on something that one of the doctors told us. During World War II, Nazis were very fearful of typhus (the epidemic from caused by Rickettsia … Continue reading
The Science Education Myth
In an article, called The Science Education Myth on BusinessWeek, Vivek Wadhwa talks about how the U.S. is actually doing a great job of educating today’s students in math and science and that maybe more emphasis should be placed on … Continue reading
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
Just a quick plug for my aluma mater, University of Wisconsin – Madison. On the latest ARWU “Top 500 Universities” list, UW-Madison was ranked #17. Ranking Methodology Go Badgers!
What if Nature Disappeared?
Here is a poem that I wrote for my 8th grade Language Arts class in, I think, 1997. It was mailed to me by my 8th grade teacher who just recently retired. You can see that some of my rhymes … Continue reading
Scott, M.D.
I’ve started another blog at www.scottmd.com. This new blog will chronicle my passage through medical school. Read about the purpose of the blog here. Expect updates every week or so.
Mifflin Street Block Party
I had never gone to the Mifflin Street Block Party because it had always conflicted with designated exam study days. This year, however, it was scheduled for the same day as the Crazylegs Classic. So our apartment decided to check … Continue reading
Done with sophomore year of college!
A successful year. I’ll get the grades from my other classes soon, but I do know for sure that I got an A in my US History 102 class. I wrote a pretty interesting paper on the Cold War. I’ll … Continue reading