FYRE

FYRE

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I am part of a learning community at Loyola. There are a variety of learning communities that incoming freshman can join. Students that are in learning communities will have monthly meetings about their learning community. Also, students will live in the same building with their learning community peers to get to know each other.
 
The learning community I am a part of is First Year Research Experience (FYRE). With this community, students stay for three weeks in May to do their own research after the spring semester is over. FYRE students are placed in a groups that focus on a specific subject. The different subjects are mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, biology and more. I was placed in the mathematics group so I have to choose a social justice topic and use mathematics to analyze the data collected for my research topic. Currently, my topic is the cost of healthcare and I will researching how has the cost of healthcare changed over the past 10 years and what populations are still struggling to gain access to it. I think this will be a great experience because I get to prepare myself to conduct and analyze research on my own. I am a nursing major and might not need research later in life but it is still a great experience to have. I can also add it to my resume and show people that I tried something new that was out of my comfort zone.
 
After that my three weeks of research, summer begins. To be honest, I do not know what I will do for the three months off, but I will definitely be taking advantage of my break and taking time to care for myself, others and my community.
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