Hello, I’m Jose, and I’m a 14 year old sophomore at the NYCISchool. I love to skateboard as well as hang out with my friends and family. I am very interested in medicine and am looking into possibly being a doctor in the future, but I have yet to decide. I have been at hospitals many times for various different reasons either physical injuries and quite a few times for being sick. I am also interested in learning about diseases because I am interested in how they mutate and how they can be cured. I love watching movies about diseases, such as a movie I recently saw, Outbreak (1995), which I loved because I got to learn about Ebola via researching the movie and other things afterward. This is an important issue to me because people die from infectious disease every day, and I’d like to help prevent that.
Category: week 1: class intros (b)
Hi my name Juan i like gymnastic
I’m not really good at introductions — especially when it comes to blogging; there aren’t a lot of interesting things I can say about myself, such as how I enjoy talking, kittens and long walks on beaches, or that I enjoy hockey more or so for the violence than the actual sport, but — unfortunately — those would all be lies.
My name is Chelsea and I’m a trilingual critique enthusiast! I hail from that one place with the Big Ben, tea and the Beatles as well as the other insultingly boot-shaped peninsula with pasta and more Roman Catholics than necessary. My interests and hobbies include: Asian culture, general culture, psychology, art, history, video games, travel, listing to music, playing violin, linguistics, writing, reading, cosplay, panelling, organising and playing Lacrosse and foot ball as well as swimming with my Asphalt Green swim team, AGUA. Right now I live with some immediate family members in Manhattan, New York City, and I adore it here; New York is a little piece of everything, so the exposure to ‘everything’ has left me with a variety of interests and hobbies, of which eventually led me to take a certain Global Infectious Diseases course and link this WordPress account!
I took the Global Infectious Disease course because, not only do I bear an obviously acute interest in biology, the study of life and how things work on a molecular level, but I also enjoy solving issues — particularly of the global variety — and it so happened that Ms. Tsui’s course offered a combination of both. By the end of this course, I’m hoping to not exactly cure, but attempt to solve issues involving the Kuru disease, and share them on a public site so those may heed my (possibly) intriguing solution and (maybe) agree.
Until then, I hope you all enjoy my posts! I’ll try to keep them as interesting and upbeat as possible.
I think that the grosser the disease the more interesting it is so I like this disease. Lassa Fever has a long list of symptoms and I like it. Lassa Fever affects eyes, organs, and way more things. It gives severe outcomes! I will be super happy and proud to continue this research and solve this problem.
Hi, I am Jonathan G. and I am an 11th grader who goes to the NYC iSchool. I am 15 years old. I have been in the varsity baseball team for the past two years and i am automatically in for the next 2 seasons that is left. My favorite color is green and I like basketball, baseball and football. In addition, the group that I am in will talk about cholera and will we talk about the disease and we will create a solution for the worldwide disease.
Hi my name is Zakari. I like video games and call of duty black ops is my favorite video game. I am in Global Infectious Diseases and Ms.Tsui is my teacher. I am in this class to learn more about diseases and how it could be treated. Basketball is my favorite sport and in my opinion I am a small forward.
My name is Pamela G. I go to the NYCiSchool and I’m a freshman. I suppose I don’t have many hobbies, but I like music, both playing and listening to it, drawing, scary/gory/psychological movies, and watching TV. I’m taking this course mostly because I find it interesting and because the gore that comes along with some of the diseases we learn about is interesting to me. I think that now that I’ve been in this class for a little while now, I’m also interested in what’s being done to eradicate these diseases.
the infectious disease challenge 