As a third-year medical student at the Miller School of Medicine, I had the opportunity to participate in our school’s Street Medicine rotation this past March. It is a month-long rotation aimed at providing multidisciplinary care and support to our unhoused and/or uninsured population through a variety of different medical and social service initiatives.
During my time there, I made a comment about the gloomy weather and how we hadn’t seen the sun for...
Attending the University of Miami for the past three and a half years as a student, I can honestly say that FIRE’s 2026 College Free Speech ranking was more validating than damning.
I thought my anxiety about speaking on certain sociopolitical issues was a personal flaw or journey that I needed to address alone. I assumed my thoughts of self-preservation were normal and pragmatic. I thought, if I want to become successful, self-censorship was simply th...
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t “thinking like an engineer,” even before I had the words to explain it.
I was known for asking a lot of questions – how things worked, why they were built that way and how solutions were interconnected. I was the kind of kid who could spend hours watching videos about how everyday products were made and manufactured. That curiosity only grew with time.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I came across a story about eng...
