Senior Projects

I want to give you all a little update on my senior project since it has been affected by the corona virus.

I am working remotely for december literary magazine on projects like reading online submissions. They set up a staff account on Submittable for me, and I have been reviewing new fiction pieces. I enjoy it so far.

I am spending more time on my novel (as a part of my senior project) during quarantine. I plan to film my writing process to inspire others.

I signed up to provide child-care for Mercy co-workers and write snail mail/emails to the seniors at Gambrill Gardens. I’m happy to help someone during this confusing time.

A friend from my writers workshop asked me to be an editor/staff member of her literary magazine. It is going to be an online platform where young adults can share their opinions and emotional response to world events like climate change and Coronavirus in the form of prose/poetry/art, and hopefully when we gain enough traction we can raise money for the solution to these problems through contests. It was an ambitious and interesting proposal and I agreed to join the team. I’ll keep you all posted on that.

Also, as the editor, I will finish up the layout of The Reader during my spare time.

I will be posting about the last two days now. (Read first post to get caught up for this post.) I only did 4 days because it made more sense to come home today, and I was able to get 30 hours in 4 days anyway, as we arrived at the hospital around 6:50 and left at about 14:20 Monday, 14:50 Tuesday, 14:00 Wednesday, and a bit after 15:00 on Thursday (not counting saying goodbye to everyone/getting group pictures, which I won’t post all of here because a) it would be a decent amount and b) I want to save some for the presentation.)

Procedures I saw:

Day 3:

• Bilateral (on both sides, in this case hands) treating of carpal tunnel
• Shoulder scope/adding an anchor (which is something that will dissolve and become a piece of what is essentially new bone)/adding a graft of dermis (as not enough rotator cuff was left)/biceps tenodesis (attachment of biceps tendon to humerus)
• Removal of a plate and screws of an ankle

Day 4:

• Bilateral treatment of carpal tunnel
• Two separate procedures (not bilateral) of carpectomy (removing of a carpal/wrist bone) and resectioning of anterior and posterior interosseous nerves (removing parts of these wrist nerves/reattaching them)
• Knee scope/cleaning (no further cutting needed)
• Putting in a plate and screws to fix fractured wrist
• Reattachmemt of tendon of dígitus medius (middle finger)

Pictures:

Not sure why some pictures are turned weird again.

I had a great experience during this shadowing. No light-headedness, no problems of any kind. I leaned a lot – specifics I will get into during the presentation – and I had a great time. It was sad to go back home. I am very grateful for this experience though. Everyone at the hospital was very kind and them letting me do this was very generous.

I have done my first week of senior project over the break, as it was easier to do then. I have been shadowing in the operating room at the hospital my grandfather — who is an anesthesiologist — works at, which is Stone County Medical Center. I will be talking about the first two days in this post and the rest tomorrow. I cannot go into detail about certain things, as what happens in the OR stays in the OR, as they say. I can talk about general surgery procedures and things of that nature, however. I was also able to get some pictures of things as long as the patient’s face wasn’t in them or any other information considered confidential.

The procedures I saw:

Day 1

• Removal of ingrown part of toenail
• Full hip replacement
• Fixing the rotator cuff by first using a scope to clean it up and then cutting/using sutures to fix
• Knee manipulation (no cutting, but fixing a stiff knee replacement under anesthetic by forcing the knee)

Day 2:

• Full reverse shoulder replacement (reverse = putting the ball and socket in opposite places in order to allow one to move their joint when the rotator cuff is not salvageable. The deltoid muscle can act as the rotator cuff when the joint is reversed)
• Treating of carpal tunnel
• Treating of carpal tunnel/fixing ulnar nerve
• Putting a pin in fractured hand
• Draining red abscess/removing excess skin

The hospital is dealing with coronavirus by testing everyone who enters the hospital for a fever and giving those who are clear a sticker to wear and only letting those with a sticker inside. Mine are shown below. A bit of blood got on the first one, which was most likely from the spraying of one of the incisions with a sterile liquid in order to rinse out the blood. There was also a meeting on Tuesday discussing coronavirus, mainly concerning patients having guests with them. which is in most cases stopped. They also discussed which type of mask they should wear for certain operations.

Pictures:

Not sure why the pictures are upside down or sideways, as they are not like that in my library. The sticker pictures are the ones I got for not having a fever as stated above. The next one is of me observing on the left/bottom of the picture. The last picture is of me and my grandfather together. We have had a great time.

Hi! For my senior project I will be doing a lot of things. For most of it I will be working at Cantor Injury law learning about law and how to run a business. On Monday nights I am taking an intense Hebrew program , and Tuesday nights I will be working at a Hebrew school. And on Fridays I will be at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community school working with the Hebrew teachers and students. In Addition I will be doing some volunteer work for an American Political group that works to create a positive U.S. and Israeli alliance, Called AIPAC. I will also be attending IDF army seminars.

I plan to intern at St. Louis Poetry center and december Literary Magazine throughout my senior project. The director of the St. Louis Poetry Center and the Managing Editor of december know each other, and they put in effort to make the two internships complementary for me, which I’m beyond grateful for.

As an avid poetry reader and aspiring poet, I want to help with organizing events for poetry lovers in St. Louis. I also hope to expand my network in the literary community and meet like-minded people. I’ll learn a lot from talking to people who have been in this industry longer than me.

I want to use the skills I learned being an editor at school and my local writer’s group in a larger professional setting. I want to get as much editorial, publishing, design, marketing, and website maintenance experience as I can. I also look forward to gaining insights on the criteria a literary magazine uses to assess the quality of the submissions. 

Here are a list of projects that I plan to work on:

• St. Louis Poetry center organizes events like poetry readings, community outreach, workshops. I will help with planning, booking hotels for guests, and decorating the locations.
• I will help cataloging the library. Their resources are open for interns, so I’ll read a lot of poetry.
• St. Louis Poetry center doesn’t have a large online presence. I will help the social media intern with promoting the non-profit online.
• St. Louis Poetry center is in High Low and shares a space with River Styx literary magazine, Tennessee Williams festival, St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts, etc. I’ll have the chance to talk to the employees and interns there and learn about their projects.
• I will attend Sunday readings and workshops.
• I will learn how does STL poetry center runs as a non-profit.
• I will use the social media marketing, website design and maintenance skills I learned in business math class. I will also learn how december magazine runs as a non-profit.

While interning, I also plan to spend time working on an independent writing project, my literary novel The Promises of the Wilderness. I wrote the first 50 pages last spring. If I write for five hours per week throughout the seven weeks, I will finish the first draft of the book. I want to have the experience of writing a book while having a full-time job because it is probably something I will do in the future.

My senior project advisor is Dr. Hurwitz. I will update him on how my project is going at least once a week over email. If an in-person meeting is needed, I will come to TFS after work.

Hello! My Senior Project is helping at organizations mostly in Washington, near where I live. I am doing some cataloguing and maybe clerical duties with the Route 66 State Park. I am working on planning a baby shower with a center in Union. I also have 2 other places. I am excited and blessed about it.

My senior project is at three different animal sanctuaries. The first two weeks will be at the World Bird sanctuary. I will spend time at the different areas in their facilities learning about their birds and bird care. The second two weeks will be at the Crown Ridge Tiger Sanctuary. I will be staying at their internship housing and learning about running a non-profit and how they care for their tigers. The last place will be the Endangered Wolf Center, working with the wolf and fox species, helping prepare their diets and doing other things that need to be done for the animal care.

For my Senior Project I will be participating in a program and volunteering at a nursing home.

As most of you know, I am interested in becoming a medical examiner in the future, so I want to do things related to both aspects of the job: the deceased and the medical realm, hence the title. I will be going to three major sites. The first site I will be going to is in a small town called Mountain View, AR. It is Stone County Medical Center, where my grandfather works, who is an anesthesiologist. He and Dr. Charles Varela have agreed to let me shadow surgeries. This will be for a week. Then, I will be going to Logan University in order to shadow there as well as complete tasks like taking muscle off bone. This will be for a few weeks. I will then go to Oltmann Funeral home in order to shadow the funeral director/embalmer there. This will be for a week, and then I will return to Logan and do more work there. I am looking forward to it.

Dr. Urbano was not very clear in saying we needed to do this but hello. For the first week of my senior project I will be going to Atlanta, Georgia. While there I will be working with straycatstrutatl to learn more about the movie industry. Things I will be doing include; making a bald cap, working with prosthetics, designing clothes, and talking with movie makeup artists. For the rest of the weeks I will be working at Hillermann’s Nursery and Florist in the greenhouse, working with plants and customers.