by Katherine Milner | Jul 14, 2023 | University of Puerto Rico 2023
In our final week, I crossed the rest of the items off my Puerto Rico trip bucket list and said goodbye to the country in which I’d spent two months conducting research and learning to live in an apartment with roommates. I planned a Sunday outing to the Museo...
by Cat Corbett | Jul 11, 2023 | University of Puerto Rico 2023
Our last week in San Juan was spent saying many goodbyes. After two months, you would not expect to become so integrated into a community, but el calor puertorriqueño makes it impossible not to. The friendly faces are truly what have made this experience so special,...
by Cat Corbett | Jul 11, 2023 | University of Puerto Rico 2023
My seventh week in Puerto Rico was full of plenty of fun activities. Since Monday was Juneteenth, the university was closed so we could not schedule any participants, so I took a beach trip to Dorado instead! A friend and I stayed until sunset and then headed back to...
by Katherine Milner | Jul 11, 2023 | University of Puerto Rico 2023
We did a lot more this week than in all previous weeks in terms of going out on new and different adventures. I was able to cross several trips off my Puerto Rico bucket list, which made me very happy! Our first two participants (during whose session we made a mistake...
by Huimo Zi | Jul 11, 2023 | University of Puerto Rico 2023
Today, I had a participant in their 60s. The most time-consuming aspect of our research involved the participant typing out what they heard from the audio. Due to their age, the participant was slower at typing, which resulted in the study taking much longer than the...
by Huimo Zi | Jun 22, 2023 | University of Puerto Rico 2023
Last night, I ran into the biggest spider I had ever seen. As I was killing it with bug spray, I couldn’t stop thinking about how long it must have taken to reach that size. In just 10 seconds, I had taken its life. I understand the benefits of spiders, and I...
