NATvigating Life

Hello!  My name is Natalie and during my SHSM Health and Wellness Virtual Research co-op experience with the Foundation of Student Science and Technology, I acted as a Research Assistant.  I worked with another student since we researched the same general topic of COVID-19 vaccine development, but we both wrote separate research papers on more specific subjects.  I finished a literature review about factors affecting unwanted immunogenicity from single-domain antibodies and the applications of that knowledge for developing a vaccine targeting COVID-19.     Did you get help from anyone else? What did you learn? My mentor provided me with valuable information about editing this report along with insights about studying and succeeding in his career field.  I gathered a lot of academic knowledge from all my research, but I also practiced my communication and writing skills.  I especially improved my analyses of research articles.  This exper...

Hey everyone, I just got my mark back for my TOK presentation about Emotion and Ethics!  I'm extremely happy that I landed a 10/10 for this project (created entirely by myself) and I want to share my success with you.  I'm showing you my full video for my TOK Presentation and including the transcript so that you can read along!  Read to the end of this post for bonus advice on how to succeed and score a perfect mark 😊 Table of Contents Presentation Transcript Extra Tips

Welcome back everyone, I haven't told this story to a lot of people, you guys will be among the first to hear it!  This blog isn't my first rodeo, my first blogging experience actually involved the creation of an Animal Jam blog in grade 3...I used to comment everywhere on my favourite blogger's posts. In fact, my Animal Jam username became one of the most used words on their blog! It was all my fault that that occurred...he never typed it out, I just spammed it in the comment sections. That animated koala inspired me to make a blog as well and thus my writing career began. Unfortunately, I was severely lacking in content. I would only write about new items coming out and I doubt that half of my posts sounded intelligent and grammatically correct. I can never get rid of those comments that I posted since I didn't have an associated account with them. Thankfully, that also means that nothing is linking me and my digital footprint to those comments...aside from this.

For the purpose of this post I will be writing solely in French!  After all, what's the point of studying the different writing formats for three years and never getting to use them?  I was supposed to take the IB SL French exam in May, that would have allowed me to actually use the blog format- however, it was cancelled because of concerns around safety due to the situation with COVID.  As a result, I'm going to try and apply what I learned here instead.  French will begin right after this paragraph, shout out to Bon Patron for helping me with this!  (I've fallen off the wagon since French classes came to a stop D:).

Hey everyone, Today I'll be teaching you how to develop a personality and make a "Starter Pack" meme!   Do you feel as though you are just a jumbled up mess of other people's adopted mannerisms and opinions? Do you think that you are not a person of substance and simply a bystander ? Read on my friend, I will answer all these questions so that you can develop a unique voice. 🐸🐱‍🏍💫    To those who have never heard of that meme, a Starter Kit is meant to embody the essence of a certain individual or activity through a combination of photos and text... This means that there are certain constant qualities to that person and a particular way to describe them.      It's likely that if  you  were given the task to create a Starter Pack for yourself you would be completely lost...If you're shy I'm sure that you've lost a lot of your identity- or perhaps there might not have even been a personality to lose in the first place 😅 As a result, ...