Life Update:
Hello everyone!
After a fun, and challenging first semester of grad school (and a short break from blogging) I have returned. On a great note, I am proud to say that I earned an “A” in the Human Osteology and Odontology course! This puts me one step closer to interning at the office of chief medical examiners in NYC.
My instructor is phenomal, and I learned to look a bone in such an interesting way. For those that might be interested, the course involved looking at bone fragments (not whole bone) and determining whether the bone is human or nonhuman, the element (what bone it is), where on the bone is the fragment from, side of the body the bone is from, and lastly whether or not the fragment came from an adult or a subadult human. We also looked at some important soft-tissue, as well as development, and pathologies. Over all, the course was a great experience filled with many hours in the osteology lab. Super grateful to have had such an opportunity.
Classes start again at the end of this month, and I will be taking three courses again. One is about the history of biological anthropology, another is an internship at the molecular anthropology lab (Super excited for this!), and Interpreting The Human Skeleton, the course taken after osteo.
