This Date in UCSF History: Couch-Surfing: My Adventures Catching the Wave

[Originally published in Synapse on April 25, 2013.] I first heard of couch-surfing two summers ago. It was advertised as a cheap way of traveling, by contacting locals of your destination of choice through an official website to see if, essentially, you could squat at their place for the duration...

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Liberation

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As I sit behind the wheel, knuckles pink and white, fingers clenched. I roll my windows down, the August night...

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Big Surprise

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It was sunrise Nail clipping of a moon, an incisor tooth Peeking and covered again, the colors of the sky...

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Puyallup, Washington

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Rides at the Puyallup Fair. Yes, we were there from opening to close, eating fair scones and purple cotton candy...

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Uganda: Nurse-to-Nurse Global Initiative

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In the summer of 2013, as doctoral students at UCSF, we committed to initiate the first collaborative partnership with Makerere...

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72 Hours Under the Tuscan Sun of Italy — La Dolce Vita!

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This summer, we conducted our six-week international advanced pharmacy practice rotation in Western Europe. Nicha Tantipinichwong was at King’s College...

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