For my interview, I met with a man named Madhan Masilimani at Icahn School of Medicine. I had thought of interview questions a few days before so I could be prepared. When we got there, we looked at my mom’s E-Mail to find the room number. It said 33 B. We looked for so long. Finally, we came to 32 B, and the next room said 34 B. My mom and I couldn’t find his room so we walked into 32 B. I asked two woman who were talking where I could find Dr. Masilimani. They looked at me puzzled and said, “I’m sorry, but who?” After searching the whole hospital, they found nobody. They called the woman who arranged the interview. I took a seat and while I was sitting down, I looked down the hall. “Mom,” I said while yanking on her arm. She looked, and I said, “I think that’s him. I recognize his mustache.”
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Capstone #4B: Site Visit
My site visit was at Mount Sinai Icahn school of medicine. For my site visit I toured the lab. Dr.Masilimani showed me almost everything, even though kids aren’t allowed in the lab. I saw lots of cool equipment. They had special instruments to get the right amount of blood and a machine that spins around 20,000 times in a minute! Some of the scientists taught me how they take a thousanth of a mili meter of blood. The scientists told me they do that with the blood because they don’t want to waste it when they could just use a little.
TFK: Star Ballerina
Misty Copeland started ballet at the age of 13. She was very passionate about ballet. Misty didn’t go to a ballet school or anything because she was poor. The only reason she started ballet was because there was a free lesson in a gym. Misty kept practicing ballet and got invited to a ballet school. Then she got accepted to an amazing ballet school with 80 students. None of the students were African , but she didn’t let that stop her. Misty Copeland got a serious injury, but bounced back. She is now the first African American to have the leading role in a ballet. I think Misty Copeland is a great role model because of all these reasons.
Capstone #3B: Switching my Interview
Unfortunately I didn’t get to interview Doctor Sampson because the woman said that he wasn’t free. Even though I was mad, I was happy that I was going to be interviewing an allergist. Even if it wasn’t an expert like Doctor Sampson. The next day at school Mrs.Edwards gave us a sheet asking who we were interviewing and where we were going for our site visit. I said I didn’t know the name of who I was interviewing, but it was going to be an allergist at Mount Sinai. For my site visit I said the lab at Mount Sinai. That day after school I asked my mom the name of who I was interviewing and she said that Mount Sinai wasn’t getting back to her. Finally after a few days of suspense Mount Sinai sent us an E-Mail. It said that none of the allergists were free because they were all trying to get money from the government to fund their research, but the head of the lab made time for me. I was so happy that I got to interview the head of the lab. The next day at school I was in good shape except I realized that I didn’t know the head of the labs name. I did so much research, but I just couldn’t find it. I had to call my mom to find his name. She looked at the E-Mail and texted me. The E-Mail said that his name was Madhan Masilimani. After school I searched him up on the web. It corrected me to Madhan Masilamani. My mom and I laughed so hard because the woman didn’t know the head of the labs name!
Capstone #3A/#4A: Picking Site Visit and Interview
When Mrs.Edwards told us we needed an interview and site visit I immediately thought Dr.Sampson because he is my allergy doctor and my topic is allergies. For my site visit I immediately thought Mount Sinai because thats where my doctor works and where I get my allergy check-up. I asked my mom if she could call about my interview and she said yes. After the phone call we went over the details. The woman said that Dr.Sampson was next free in august, so I couldn’t interview him personally, but had to do it on an e-mail. The next day at school Mrs.Edwards said that our interview should be face to face or something like a Skype. When I got home we called again. This time about the site visit to. The woman said that I could see the lab and a fellow could take me on a tour. Now we are in the process of finding a date. The woman also said that I would be set up with a doctor, either a friend of Dr.Sampson, or someone in the practice. I think I’m in good shape.
TFK: The Power of Quiet
I learned what a introvert, extrovert, and ambivert is from The Power of Quiet. An introvert is someone who isn’t that social and an extrovert is someone who is social. An ambivert is someone who is a bit of both. I also learned how a kid named David (an introvert) ran for class president verse the most popular girl. David won! This shows that even though David is an introvert he can still try and be social. Their are also tips to follow to lead a successful life. I never thought people would use them, but think twice! We also filled out a sheet after reading the article. It asked if you were an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert. I think I’m an ambivert because I like to be social, but I also like to just sit down and read. Because of this I’m an ambivert.
Grace Lin Visit
Today Grace Lin visited our school. We learned about how Grace Lin’s novels are based on lucky Chinese numbers (6,8,9). We also learned about other lucky Chinese things like the tiger. We learned about unlucky things like the number 4. Grace Lin then talked about books she’s coming out with and how now all her books related to her life have three sisters because her sisters need to be in the book. On top of that we watched a Grace Lin Ted Talk where she told us how she was upset how she was Asian, and up to a certaint point upset she didn’t speak Chinese. I think she’s also a great role model because she teaches us to be yourself.
2016 Summer Olympics
This years summer Olympics will be hosted in Rio de Janeiro. 4.3 billion people are expected to watch on TV! 206 countries will be competing and over 11,000 athletes. In the Paralympics 4,350 athletes with disabilities will be competing, from 176 countries, in 23 sports. Athletes are very exited to compete and represent their country. A swimmer named Reece says, “To represent your country at the largest sporting event in the world is a whole other story.”
Capstone #2: Choosing a main Inquiry Question and Sub Question
Mrs. Edwards told our class that our capstone tittle had to be a question. Not a green light or red light question, but a deep question. Mrs. Edwards told us that this project was something we were supposed to be enthusiastic about learning, enjoy it, learn a lot about, and have fun. Since I have allergies I didn’t know if I was going to be able to learn so much about it, but I knew I would be enthusiastic and all. I kept thinking. I then remembered that at seder my cousin who has allergies had a dog that sniffed her food to see if there were any ingredients she was allergic to. Then it popped into my head. I was going to do what are allergist doing to help people with allergies. When we had to tell Mrs. Edwards our main inquiry question so far I told her that. We met and jazzed it up a bit. My final product went something like this: what are the top treatments for people with allergies and what are treatments that allergist are considering. This worked because I would research all the treatments and at my interview learn about treatments they want to do in the future.
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Capstone #1: Picking a Topic in Capstone
When Mrs. Edwards told us to start capstone, she said that our main inquiry question was going to be a deep question. We would do a lot of research and look through it to come up with our capstone. I really wanted to learn about food allergies because I have them. I thought it would be hard to come up with questions because I know a lot about food allergies, but it really wasn’t. Mrs. Edwards said that we were going to choose two topics. I was not that interested in anything else, so I brainstormed and came up with something random. I came up with endangered animals.