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This semester, I'm taking NS3320 with Dr. Field, called Methods in Nutritional Sciences. And today we did a hematology lab looking at our own blood samples. Here's my blood. So after we got our blood drawn today,
we centrifuged, or spun down, our samples and that separated out the plasma in the serum from our actual red blood cells. So then we can isolate the serum, and next time, look at our iron levels, to see if there's anyone who has iron deficiency anemia or other diseases. We looked at our blood glucose levels, which was really cool to see. And I have never figured out what my blood type was, so it was cool to see that I’m B positive, which is a good mantra for
life, just to be positive.

As student research assistants in the Cornell Fashion and Textile Collection, we were very excited when Lieutenant Colonel Fitzpatrick invited us to collaborate with the Wortham Museum in Barton Hall. Over the course of
the past three months, we've worked to comprehensively catalog the hundreds of items
housed in their military science collection. After wrapping up the inventory process, we began the curatorial stages of the Fit for Duty exhibition, in both the Wortham Museum and the Human Ecology exhibit spaces. While the exhibit in the Wortham Museum focused primarily on the legacy of Cornell’s ROTC program and military history, the exhibit in Human Ecology looks at how military uniforms have shaped the aesthetic development of contemporary fashion, silhouettes and identities. As a senior whose worked in the Cornell Fashion and Textile Collection for four years now, it’s been so amazing to have the opportunity to be deeply involved with this project, from start to finish.

So here at the Play and Learning Lab, we're really interested in early childhood cognition and how children learn through play, how parents can scaffold children’s learning and their speech acquisition through everyday means.
I personally really enjoy the lab because I get to play with infants every day. I've gotten to code, I’ve done participant recruitment and now I get to lead some of my own projects. I have a deep passion for early childhood education and working with infants, and that’s my favorite part about being part of the Play and Learning Lab.