Real Travel Tips – Packing
One of the topics I was thinking of writing about after traveling in Asia and Africa for ~9 months was travel tips. I sort of pushed it off thinking that there must be a lot of good advice already out there. Since I’ve been back I’ve gotten a lot of different questions about traveling and…
Real Travel Tips – Technology Prep
One of the topics I was thinking about writing about after traveling Asia and Africa for ~9 months was travel tips. I sort of pushed it off thinking that there must be a lot of good advice already out there. Since I’ve been back I’ve gotten a lot of different questions about traveling and I…
Compilation of Advice
Before I left, I met with a variety of people to get advice on traveling for 9 months, studying healthcare, and information about specific countries/areas. There was a lot of great advice so I boiled it down into some common themes for this journey! Be Flexible This was advice given for both traveling and studying…
Step 1: Quit Your Job
I printed out my 2 weeks notice. There was something heavy about that piece of paper that I didn’t want to dwell on too much during that day at work. Today was the day… It took me a year to follow my passions. A lot of this was timing (had to fully vest on 401K,…
Why Travel & Study Healthcare?
Personally, I yearned to travel and take advantage of my youth. Professionally, if I wanted to be worth my salt as a medical innovator I needed to further study healthcare and the problems associated with it. Now if only I could combine the two…. Taking the M.S. of Medical Device Innovation program at the University…