2024 was an eventful year. The highlight of the year was my wife finishing her PhD in May. The final run up to her dissertation defense was intense, but the payoff was great and we celebrated her graduation with a party at our favorite brewery. Although I wrote last year about it being our last year in the house, she got a postdoc at the same university so we’re staying put for a few more years.

Work This has been a good year for me at work. Because I started at CHOP so close to the end of 2021, I spent most of 2022 learning. In 2023 I’ve taken on significantly more responsibility and started to function as more of a leader on the team. I work on the Arcus team at CHOP, whose primary goal is providing a virtual environment for CHOP researchers to have the software tools and data they need to do their research in one place.

Driving home after Christmas, my wife and I had a quick year in review discussion and I thought it would be good for me to document a look back at the past year. Here is a quick rundown of what this year looked like for me and a short list of goals for 2022. Work I started a new job in November working at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, working on tools used for genomics research.