S-STEM/TRAIN Scholar Jasmine Patricio

During this week of class lecture we have begun discussing a mindset type of book that focuses on grown and fixed mindset of people and how they can be changed over more developed over time. In this book,  Carol Dweck illustrates the differences between a growth and fixed mindset. She quotes   “ In a fixed  mindset , people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success—without effort.” . In order to tie the book to the class, we looked at strategies used in previous experiences and how they can be incorporated into a new learning challenge. In other terms to put it a fixed mindset person would say "They were just naturally born smart" believing that people's mind is set on only one point of view and wouldn't change. On the other hand, growth mindset is described as "S tud...

About a week more until I reach only having one more month left to finish up my first semester at ASU. It’s crazy how time flies especially this college year around. I feel like time flew faster at ASU than my two years at Phoenix College. I also feel like I’ve had less relaxation time at ASU than my time at P.C. My first semester at ASU so far has been kind of drowning because this is the time where I feel like I have to start planning my career path and looking into what medical schools and licensing careers I want to try and get into. This semester has been a lot of just trying to keep up with all the homework assignment and exams and quizzes that some professors will throw at the students as a surprise. I have definitely made new friends who in my calculus class have helped me a lot and always make class a little more tolerable. I do miss a couple of things from P.C like my past professors and especially Dr. Cotter who made class always a delight to come to. I am still currently w...

Hey everyone I hope you are all doing well and have been having a good semester so far. I miss Phoenix college so much and everyone who was involved in the stem program. University and Community College are the without  a doubt such different environments. As midterms are just days away the stress and anxiety are all coming in at once and the pressure to graduate within my goal are coming to a reality. My day starts of with going to Tempe Campus to taking the shuttle, which I have to admit has been my best- friend during this semester and will continue being my best friend for the following two years. I go from Tempe Campus to West Campus to Downtown Campus to finally head home. My biggest achievement while being a ASU has been able to keep up with my professors and being able to stay on track, regarding being in a whole different environment. I am currently interning with Dr. Beth who also Daisy is a part of. Everyone in the lab was extremely welcoming and helped me distinguis...

CONGRATS to Samantha & Ibrahim for winning the Arizona- Nevada state conference. The Trip was really fun yet really exhausting. It was my first time ever traveling to Nevada and it couldn't have been any better. I hope to do this experience once more. Thank You Josh and Matt who have been nothing but a great mentors and have been opening up doors for each individual and have been amazing role models.

This week in the Lab room each intern went to ASU West Campus for poster presentations. Though I was pretty upset that the wrong poster was printed out cause I had worked so much on my new and improved poster. But no matter which poster or not was printed "the show must go on". So I presented what I had on my poster as if it was my new one. I got the opportunity to talk to Beth who has a project on micro plastics at ASU West, and share my ideas with her. With the help of Amanda Chapman I will find ways to reach out to Beth and see if there are any opportunities left in her lab . 

This week in lab I finally finished transferring all Plastics 1-6 that were exposed to Tempe Town Water Lake on PIA media and TSA plates to detect any growth. Some plastics had just black mold growing on the PIA plate which I am still not sure if there was any Pseudomonas growing on the plates. The media had a weird smell to it, almost like a strong really smelly wet mold smell to it. The nexts steps would be to run a Gram stain identification to first figure out if they are Gram- Negative or Gram- positive bacteria.

    This week in lab I have done my first test of the microplastic and the Tempe Town Lake water. Huge shoutout to Ibrahim for helping me and showing me the steps of how to set up PIA plate. We only did SPI 1 as a sample run on the plate to see if any pseudonus would grow on the plate. We also did a TSA plate to see if any bacteria would grow and what we could determine from it. This week what I have also done is a TSA plate on the Tempe Town Lake water. I did the lawn method and streaking method on the TSA plates which then will be inoculated in a 36 C. I will be doing the PIA and TSA run for all 1-6 plastics and see if any of them show any growth. Also what I will be doing is doing gram stains and see how the bacteria may be shaped all.