Ah, back to the old research blog. It seems I haven’t posted anything for almost two weeks. So I have A LOT to say. I’ve been putting this off for a while, particularly because I keep hanging out with friends, or hanging out with family, and my time just dwindles away, almost to the point where I spend the week not doing one thing. For instance, I was almost finished with the book “Medical Apartheid” by Harriet Washington (I highly recommend it). It took me a week to read the last 70 pages!
I want to hang out and enjoy my summer, but I feel that I’ve done a little too much of that, some of it voluntary, and some of it against my will, but I am finally putting my foot down and hitting the research path again.
I have been promising myself I would go to the UNCC library to do some more in-depth article research. I have a flowing book list, but I need more articles to understand the various components of my project. And I just keep discovering stuff I want/need to read. I’m afraid there is no way I can even get to all of it.
I’m still waiting to find out what the deal is with my research stipend. I applied for it in May, and haven’t received it, or any word of what to expect/ if it has been approved or not etc. I am dirt broke… I need money man.
In regards to my internship, over the past week after talking to one of my high school teachers, she basically destroyed the premise of my project, because it has been done already (I was going to look at disparities in access so quality to health care). I’ve decided to revamp that and focus specifically on mental health. I came home to a story that a black man sought mental health help TWICE, saying that he was going to harm someone. Psychiatrists let him go both times, and he later killed his wife and two daughters. It is a tragic situation, but after hearing about it twice, I got the idea to research more on the local mental health system, and to understand if disparities exist between racial/ethnic minorities (as I am sure they do) and to find out the causes for those disparities. I’ll let you know how that goes.
I have my first Kling academic research update coming up next week, the day after my sister’s graduation, and the day that I have a meeting with a professor about my internship project. It’s going to be a busy weekend as I prepare my material for that update to the University administrators. I hope everything goes to plan though.
In OTHER news, isn’t this backdrop just PERFECT! Omg. I’m in love with it! And FOUR FOLLOWERS! I feel so popular. I’m amazed people want to hear about my research. Too bad I don’t have any catchy/funny stories at the moment. I guess I need to finally get into the library to get some. But yeah, hopefully, FINALLY I will begin to keep this thing updated rather frequently. I need to really record all of my thoughts…
OH by the way, as I was reading Medical Apartheid, the author fleetingly mentioned two things which caught me off guard: 1. An African pygmy was caught and displayed in the BRONX ZOO in the early 20th century. Can you believe that? He was placed into a cage with a monkey and 2. The author mentioned that there are some volumes sitting on library shelves with the weatherized skin of African Americans on their covers. Isn’t that amazing? I am so surprised at the extremity of the medical atrocities that African Americans faced! Well I’ll leave that disturbing image for you to ponder! Lol
- Until next time
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