The job entailed providing emotional support for students that required it. The job also included being present and offering support in the dicult situations of academic misconduct, which required a delicate balance of being a safe space for the student while being assertive with the consequences of misconduct. During my year as a student counsellor I organised a mental health week, one colleague offered a free yoga class, and I gave a talk in philosophy and the stoic school of thought, and how we can apply its teachings to our modern day struggles to help with anxiety and depression.

Under the supervision of Dr. Dana Almohazey, in the Stem Cell research department. In a project investigating oxidative stress pathways in colorectal cancers. Tasks included protein modifying enzyme cell culture experiments, protein extraction and quantification, and western blotting. PCR, qPCR, DNA and RNA isolation. And in collaboration with the NanoMedicine department, treatment of a panel of cancer cell lines with target drugs followed by MTT assay. At the end of each week, a meeting was set with the aforementioned supervisor to discuss results and the experiments to be conducted the week to follow.