Life update:  My apologies to my readers for the lull in writing for the past 3 weeks!  Not only did it snow nearly 5 feet in Pittsburgh so far this month, I have been very busy preparing for the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step I, which I will be taking in late April.  Although I am already an allopathic medical (M.D.) student, I was also interested in enhancing my research training with a Ph.D., and so I was occupied with finishing the interviewing process this month for the University of Pittsburgh-Carnegie Mellon... read more