Last Floor "The twelfth"

During the past two months I, Rey J. Santiago Crespo spend my summer in a Research Experience for Undergraduate. I made this internship in the University At Buffalo in New York. There I met with two graduated students (Jesus Velazquez and Ivonne M. Ferrer) that made my trip one I would not regret. They also made their Bachelor degree in Chemistry At University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. Thanks to this I was able to be confident in each step I made during the summer. I learned a lot of things about the life of a graduate student from them and other student in my laboratory group. My mentor teacher, professor Janet Morrow worked with me in Inorganic Biochemistry giving to me my own project to work with. I was able to work with many instruments including a Master Optical Paramagnetic Oscillator used to measure the luminescence spectrum of lanthanides. Also I used an Inova 500 NMR, UV/Vis and Fluor-meter.

In the picture above there are Karina my trip partner from UPR Cayey, Dr. Luis Colón the guy who made our experience possible, he's from Puerto Rico and he also graduated from UPR at Cayey. About my career, I definitely want to continue studying; Jesus and Ivonne were my inspiration to make this decision a final one. I want to make a last undergraduate research internship next summer to see what University is the one I wants to go. I know that this experience helped me to see many things I was unsure about. Also I could improve and practice my English language while enjoying my trip in Buffalo. There are not too much Spanish speaker there so English was the instrument to communicated with them. I made many friends from Buffalo and from different towns.

People who taught me new words and new things about the life in the USA. I also visit a lot of food places, I went to the Niagara Falls, also visited Canada and Cleveland. I went to an amusement park named Darien Lake, here I did ride every ride and for free and in Canada we went to a haunted house called Nightmare Wow! Everything was Awesome.

The last day before coming to Puerto Rico many people met in Jesus house to share a last moment and Jesus said--talking about me and Karina--: “ The first day they get here we went out to have dinner and they didn’t know how to order but look at them Know.”

At the end of this Summer I made the fourth place in the poster presentation with my project named Selective Nucleotide Detection by a Eu (III) Phenantrholine Complex, Free And Incorporated to the DNA. Working in Janet Morrow group gave me the opportunity to decide what to study, and that is chemistry.

Eleventh Floor

Nice view huh?... Who wouldn't like to be right here thinking about nothing and just sit back and relax knowing that you're having a great time. I would die to be there right now

but that's not the real thing I'm sitting here on my desk chair studying for the Biology class wondering what life has for me when I depart my destiny... This week was a little exiting for the reason that I receive the new that I'm working with the director of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. I'll be working on molecules for the recognition of quadruplexes and nucleic acid bulges. This would involve synthesis and fluorescence measurements and perhaps gel electrophoresis. This might seem a speech in another language but it simply new areas of research for me so I'll have the chance to learn new techniques and areas of chemistry related to medicine. This is awesome because it combine the two areas of my interest chemistry and medicine.

Now besides that on Wednesday I took an economic test the rest of the week was a piece of cake free of stress week... The resting time is to feel free and study for my test of Biology the one that I have to get an A because I got and F on the last one, it was so hard to me but nothing ... I'll just Live every moment, laugh every day and love beyond words... ♡☮✯Peace✯☮♡

The 10Th Floor

Hey people, how are you? I'm ok but feeling sick again making this a three weeks in a row being like this. But like I said before "life is a box of chocolate... Now did you know that your tooth paste is made of many ingredient that you would never put on your mouth. Some of them are Antifreeze, formaldehyde, Seaweed, even chalk, yes the same that your second grade teacher use in her blackboard to write down everything that you have to write too. You may think that I went a little random here but I just talking about a Short essay I read for my English class oral presentation that it's call "What's in your toothpaste." It was cool because while you're reading it you make the picture in your mind of you everytime you wash your mouth.

Also during my week I can tell that my Social Science test was very easy if I had study more. On Friday I took my traditional quiz, because every Friday I have one, About reproduction system and I think that I did it right. It was a piece of cake.

Now Im resting here in my bed thinking about what I did and did not, Thinking about my lovely girlfriend that I want to see right now!!!!

Finally I wondering how I am going to wake up of my bed to do some shores and homeworks :(

The 9th Floor

This is my ninth floor of this reflexion tower. Here I expressed myself every week writing about it. It was a nice week, it was not, things like that. I can tell that during the beginning of the tower I was very expressive and I had a lot of motivation. But know is different, now I being feeling sick since the past two weeks. Life is not easy, right, well about this week of spring break I did a lot of things, well not a lot but I did some. I went in the weekend with my girlfriend and my bestfriend to the beach. Also during the week I went to the river with some friends and we spend some good time although that the water was very cold.

I also spent a lot of time with my puppy, it is so big now contrasting it with the first day that I saw it. I tought him how to sit on the floor and how to lay down. This dog capacity is awesome for the reason that I did not have to spend a week teaching him. He learned in approximately a half of an hour to sit. I think that I love that dog...

8th Floor

This week...bah I did not like it because I got and F on Biology, this was hard to me to accept it but this is true life. After this my car spend two days in the mechanics because of something that still sound wear but such is life. Now I'm only waiting for this spring break to take a rest. I'm a little tire of studying until the sun rise up, literally. I want to feel free for a while in my house and hang out with my friends an family. Now I feel sorry for you guys that follow my Reflexing tower but now i Don't want to talk to much I feel stress and not in mood, but I promise that my other Floor would be a lot more fun. Bye!!!

7th Floor of the Tower

What a stress this week... I had three tests, one laboratory work, and one quiz. Also to complicate the situation I was sick and without sleep on Monday night, and Thursday night. Sincerely this past week was horrible.

Now talking about other thing... I spend the whole weekend with my family: on Friday only slept the rest of the day, on Saturday I went to my aunt house to celebrate her daughter 23th birthday,it was awesome because it had been a long thing since the last time I played pool table, and that night I only loose 2 of about 10 games, including wining to my aunt's ex husband. Now on Sunday I spend my day helping my mom with the shores of the house( cleaning and all that), then at night I went to my girlfriend's dorm to visit her and give her a surprise-I brought my puppy with me to let her to see him. At last I past a great weekend resting out my nightmare.

The sixth floor

Well Hi everybody, here I am again telling you that life is a box of chocolate you never know what you are going to get. That's right this week was one of to much intensity for the reason that I have several things to do and to many tests. Today I took two of them, bad news 'huh,' but that is not all also in the Biology lab. the professor gave us the grade of the tests I took last week. It was a little uncomfortable when he said" There is only one A", oh my lord at that moment i shocked but then he said that the A was someone who was not giving his or her potential in the quizzes and apparently that person study a lot for the test. I though, well I did not study a week before but I think that in one day I can force myself to study hard. Finally, you know what? The only A that was in the group and the guy that haven't study a lot for the quizzes was me. I think that new was the best thing of this day.

Second I said the quote of the box of chocolate because at this moment I'm feeling that problems or bad luck always ride behind my back. I'm tired of having to waste my money fixing every car that I have. Also it is difficult to me to think about test and all that while carrying with a cargo on top of me. Ahhhhh! I really can not deal with this problems.