2015 Bonenfant Recipient - Victorine Muse: May 2015

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Last Final

Today I finished my final final- medical ethics. It feels great to be done and I still have a few days to explore Copenhagen on my own time! Tomorrow I plan to go to Amager Strande- a manmade beach just 20 minutes away! My friends and I plan to have a picnic lunch there to celebrate being done and maybe get some sun! It's still a but cool here so I am definitely looking forward to summer when I finally get home. While I am excited to see my family, I am most excited to see my dog since the rest of my family visited. He and I have 3 weeks together before I have to return to Cornell University for my summer job. I am really looking forward to using that time to relax and be with my family after so long apart! Although I know it will be hard adjusting back to my old lifestyle...

Mons Klint

This wednesday I was lucky enough to travel to Mons Klint! they are chalk cliffs about 2 hours away from Copenhagen and are a beautiful sight! It took us 3 hours on public transportation (1 train, and 2 buses) but it was definitely worth it. As my last days in Copenhagen pass by I have been trying to everything left, and I still feel like it isn't enough. I wish I could stay much, much longer! In the end this whole experience has been the best time of my life and I know I will miss it every day. I know one day I will return and I count the days until it will happen!

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Biomedicine Drug Development Paper

The final paper for our drug development project was just due as well. It was a 15 page paper assessing Liplasome, the company we interviewed a few months ago. While we finally finished it, we have a 20 minute presentation to prepare for on Wednesday. We have to pretend to be the company and present the drug to the class as if we were trying to sell it to them. Our product is still in clinical trials so its more difficult to present since we don't have access to their data results. However, we plan to present the product by marketing the drug as a novel cancer therapy. The other groups are presenting their products so I look forward to hearing from them as well!

Danish Final

I had my final Danish exam last Thursday and I believe it went fairly well. It had multiple components including a listening comprehension section, a reading comprehension section, a translation section, and a cultural section. Unfortunately, my teacher was sick on this day so another teacher was doing the listening comprehension section which was more challenging since we weren't used to listening to her voice as much. Surprisingly I think I understood most of the facts which made me realize I've learned more than I thought this past semester. The class isn't quite over though, we have one more recording due and this thursday we have cultural presentations. My topic is called "why aren't they fat? a look at food, fitness, and fun in Denmark" where we are essentially looking into how Danish culture (which includes lots of smoking and lots of bread). I am really looking forward to it since we have to take lots of pictures of Danes around the city and we are excited take this as an opportunity to further explore culture around the city.

Budapest, Vienna, Prague, and Munich

I returned a week ago but was thrown right into finals season so unfortunately I am delayed in this post. Anyways, over 10 days I was lucky enough to travel through Budapest, Vienna, Prague, and Munich and had an amazing time!! Budapest was beautiful and we were able to do a walking tour and were lucky enough to go to the Baths there which were amazing! next we traveled by train to Vienna where we saw the Schronbrunn palace and wandered around the city. My family friend who lives in Vienna names Johannes showed us around for a few hours and exposed us to the coffee culture in Vienna- apparently its very common to enjoy coffee for hours at a time in a very relaxed setting- not quite the style in the US. Next, we went to Prague which was definitely my favorite city of the trip! We did a walking tour here as well and saw the main sites including the John Lennon wall and the astronomical clock. Lastly we made our way to Munich for Springfest where we went camping (not our best idea) but we made the most of it! We made lots of German friends at the festival and ate lots of sausage and hotdogs on the fair grounds. Overall the entire week was fabulous and I am getting very sad to be leaving Copenhagen so soon!