What It’s Like at Private Clinical Labs (vs. Hospital Labs)
A couple of days ago my class went on another field trip. This time we went someplace close to BCIT. We visited the BC headquarters of LifeLabs, which is only a 10-minute walk from campus. LifeLabs is...
View ArticleInside the Brain of an Architecture Student.
In Architecture school, things are particularly overwhelming because there are no rules for ‘right’, only for ‘wrong’. You never truly understand what you have done with a project until it is pinned up...
View ArticleMy Phlebotomy Practicum Experience
I can’t believe it’s almost the end of April and there’s only 3 weeks of classes left! This month has kept me busy with our regular workload and a group project, but now that the term is ending, things...
View ArticleChoosing Clinical Sites for Practicum
A requirement of the med lab program at BCIT is a clinical practicum placement in levels 4 and 5, after the theory component is done. This is what I will be doing in a few months’ time! The practicum...
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Urban Planning Project!
Ciao! So I have been writing about things other than my schooling and my own projects lately so I guess I’d better write about something I am doing at school this time! Right now one of the projects...
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The Most Important Exam of My Career
It’s finally my last week of classes at BCIT! We have final exams next week, and while those are important, I’m going to talk about the most important exam I’ll ever write in my career: the CSMLS exam....
View ArticleSummer Vacation and Preparing for Practicum
Level 3 is finally over! The past 1.5 years at BCIT went by so quickly, even though it didn’t feel that way most of the time. Now that the school portion of my program is over, there is only the...
View ArticleOur BCIT Program Head visits us in Ferrara, Italy!
Ciao everyone! We (the three Canadian students) are pretty lucky that our program head from BCIT is here in Ferrara, Italy to see how our exchange is going! We are the first students from BCIT to be...
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How can I describe my Italian exchange in one blog?
Wow, this is my second to last blog and I figure I should maybe try and sum up my academic year and my international exchange to Italy. But how? I don’t even remember what I did two days ago and this...
View ArticleLevels 1-3 Completed: a summary
As today marks the end of May, it’s time for me to say goodbye to being a MyLife blogger. I have had fun this past year documenting my experience in the med lab science program; if it weren’t for this...
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Follow-up post 2: Fright Night
Happy November everybody! So i went to fright night on the first of November, and had an awesomeee time. For those who are curious to know if I got scared: yes I did. The group of us only managed to go...
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A sailor’s life for me
Hurrah!! Hurrah!! Exams are over. Time to par– oh wait… three more projects due this week! Haha. So, how’s it going friends? How was your Halloween? I spent my actual Hallowe’en night over at my...
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Halloween Sugar Rush
Hello once again! I hope everyone had an awesome Halloween day/week. As you can see with all the candy above I had lots of fun. So our program course registration was this weekend for the Winter 2014...
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Ventilation
Hey guys, So today’s post is going to be a little different. I’m not going to be talking about Ventilators (which is a medical device that BMETS look after), but rather I am going to do some venting....
View ArticleMy Computer Programming (C) Video Project
Hey guys, For the programming course I am taking, we were asked to make a video discussing programming. The topic is so vague, so the different ideas that everyone had was astronomical. Anyway, without...
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True Dedication
Hey everyone! I want to start off with thanking all Veterans for their dedication towards their country. Remembrance Day is one we should respect and honestly remember those who gave up their lives for...
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Scavenger hunts and award ceremonies
Man, how is it over halfway through November already?? Checking my email this morning, I was greeted with a reminder that finals are only three weeks away. Yikes. While I severely enjoy all the...
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Acoustical Tests in a Reverberant Chamber – Part 1
I spent most of my October outdoors (doing laneway house acoustic tests across Vancouver’s residential neighborhoods), enjoying the gorgeous tree-lined autumn streets and mesmerized by leaves that...
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Acoustical Tests in a Reverberant Chamber – Part 2
Continued from previous post. It was probably the most physically challenging project I had ever undertaken. Most of the equipment involved were very heavy and required moving around and transporting...
View ArticleLaneway house hunting, being mailman, and other odd duties of research
(A post written in October) I hadn’t written a while because I was mesmerized by gorgeous October and preoccupied with getting laneway house access. In the blink of an eye, nature came to its most...
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