First patient
Shelter clinic opens every Thursday at six, First time seeing a “real” patient, I’m waiting at the door.
Behind Their Wheels
Fall 2021 “How do you know that a man loves you?” *** Emmanuel had a firm build and rigid posture...
Hey, First Years, What Do You Want To Know?
Being a first-year graduate student can be hard. Like, really hard. As a first year, you may feel like a...
Sri Lankan Student Helps Home Country in Crisis
When Biomedical Sciences PhD student Yash Abeykoon, a Sri Lankan citizen, traveled back to her home country in June, she...
This Date in UCSF History: Don’t Forget to Vote
[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 30, 1986.] It may not be a presidential election year, but next Tuesday’s midterm...
A Balikbayan Box for My Ballers
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...
From Patient to Student at UCSF
In the summer of 2012, I was a healthy 16-year-old cloaked with naïve invincibility. So, when I was waking up...
Phd F****ery
The Phd program sucks the life out of me, It’s like jumping on a treadmill and not being able to...
Letters of Gratitude
How can we thank those who've donated their bodies to our medical education?
Farewell Til Fall
As we end the 66th year of Synapse’s publication, I encourage you to stop whatever you are doing and just...