Backpacking across 10 countries! help me explore the world

Dominika Gorniak Start Date: Aug 11, 2025 - End Date: May 10, 2026
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Intern Abroad
  • Island
  • Cina
  • London, Spojené kráľovstvo
  • Južná Kórea
  • Kamerun
  • Japonsko
  • Švédsko
  • Dánsko
  • California, Spojené štáty americké
  • Holandsko

My Travel Story

by: Dominika Gorniak Start Date: Aug 11, 2025 - End Date: May 10, 2026
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Intern Abroad
I’m the microbiologist who:

Prolonged my studies so long, my starter bacterial colonies graduated before me.

Survived COVID lockdowns by talking to my Petri dishes (they never talked back… suspicious).

Took an internship that turned into a ‘How to Function on 3 Hours of Sleep’ masterclass.

But here’s the twist: I’m still here, staining slides, chasing grants, and occasionally remembering to eat real food.
Why? Because science needs stubborn people who won’t quit, even when their PCR fails for the 10th time.

Current mood: This agar gel has more life direction than I do.
  • Island
  • Cina
  • London, Spojené kráľovstvo
  • Južná Kórea
  • Kamerun
  • Japonsko
  • Švédsko
  • Dánsko
  • California, Spojené štáty americké
  • Holandsko

Updates

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  • Mental Update

    COVID hit, my lab closed, and my internship turned into a ‘DIY Home Bacteria Farm’ (thanks, Zoom). Now my degree is taking longer than a 10-day Petri dish culture… But like a stubborn antibiotic-resistant superbug, I refuse to die.

    Strength level: Extremophile surviving on coffee and expired lab snacks.
    Goal: Graduate before my samples contaminate. Donate to speed up science (or my sanity)
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