Here is some of the best of what Amina had to say. This is actually in video format on YouTube. You'll see clips of Princeton University and Philadelphia. Also, this is a Week 2 reel, not a Week 3 reel (although UM has been live for that long) because I only came up with the idea of a highlight reel today but I don't want to start at Week 3, so to call this week 2, I'm not counting the launch week, which covers the first three episodes of UM, i.e. how I secured my strongest letters of recommendation from professors at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University, if you're curious. Write "cashew butter" in your review, if you read this entire description! Cashew butter is dope, though. Have you tried chocolate ice cream made with cashew milk instead of dairy milk? I talk a lot. Charity of the week (no relationship to recipient): Donate to this memorial fund on gofundme Charity of the week: Donate to this memorial fund on gofundme (neither Skiveo nor UM receives any fraction of funds received by the recipient): https://www.gofundme.com/ywhgu-taha-memorial-fund.

Credit:

Isa G "Going Home"

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Too close to the mic at points, Amina explains a longstanding decision point in her pre-professional life, the connection between preprints and finding a job or rather, a job finding you. She also discusses a strange or common point of similarity between Einstein and herself. She also delves into anxiety, brings up a critical point about veganism, and notes how humans are more bacterial cells than their own cells. And, of course, she explains why that's important (hint: it has to do with your mood or in almost cliched vernacular, mental health).

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Isa G's nasheed "Going Home"

LAME: www.mp3dev.org

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Amina talks about the difference between objectification and self-objectification and why the American Psychological Association has called the latter an epidemic. She also talks about her hijab and the "hijab" of a model who was invited to one of her classes, a class about models, at Princeton. She also somehow relates Elon Musk to self-objectification, discusses the "confidence gap," the title of an article about men and women in the Atlantic, and proposes a possible reason for the dearth of black female STEM professors at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.

Credits

Rhamzan “The Halal Life”

Rhamzan “My Child” and/or

Isa G "Going Home"

LAME: www.mp3dev.org

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Amina describes how her inadvertently inconsiderate behavior landed her in an uncomfortable conversation.

Charity of the week: Donate to this memorial fund on gofundme (neither Skiveo nor UM receives any fraction of funds received by the recipient): https://www.gofundme.com/ywhgu-taha-memorial-fund

Credit:

Isa G "Going Home"

LAME: www.mp3dev.org

Amina describes how her inadvertently inconsiderate behavior landed her in an uncomfortable conversation.

Charity of the week: Donate to this memorial fund on gofundme (neither Skiveo nor UM receives any fraction of funds received by the recipient): https://www.gofundme.com/ywhgu-taha-memorial-fund

Credit:

Isa G "Going Home"

LAME: www.mp3dev.org

Amina discusses why her professor called her on her cell, her weird response to being rejected from grad school, the time she asked strangers on the street to let her into a lab, and how her neuroscientific niche precipitated a strange but welcome offer.

Credit:

Isa G "Going Home"

Rhamzan "My Child" and/or

Rhamzan "The Halal Life"

LAME: www.mp3dev.org

Show notes

https://www.skive0.com/urscienceminority/

Amina discusses her first summer “in the lab.”

Side note: read Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble, about Google and others.

This episode could help anyone who is extremely introverted or shy and has no idea how they’re going to secure recommendation letters from their college professors.

Credits

Isa G "Going Home"

Rhamzan "My Child" and/or

Rhamzan "The Halal Life"

LAME: www.mp3dev.org

Show notes

https://www.skive0.com/urscienceminority/

Amina explains how she very strangely became interested in science despite a long-held ambition to become a professional writer. And despite having already been swayed to start the onerous (fancy vocab, girl) pre-med track as a freshman at Princeton University.

Credit:

Isa G "Going Home"

Rhamzan "My Child"

Rhamzan "The Halal Life"

LAME: www.mp3dev.org

Show notes: https://www.skive0.com/urscienceminority/