From Bagels to Beignets

February Hours: 18 Total Hours: 18 What a hectic month this was! With classes, volunteering, and exams to start and end February, there was a lot packed into the shortest month of the year- not to mention my first Mardi Gras ever. This month we did the neuro and psych modules, with our psych exam taking place right after we finish spring break. After that comes the shelf exam and from then on its smooth sailing to the end of the year. It's crazy to think that one month from today we will be done with all of our core classes and only have electives to finish. This month I did two volunteering activities- I volunteered at the Rock n Roll marathon in the medical tent and volunteered to judge the junior division of the GNOSEF science fair. At the marathon, my friends and I were stationed in the main medical tent where we helped doctors treat runners that had severe injuries or health complications from the marathon. Most of what we saw was severe dehydration or hyperthermia- usu...

January felt like it passed in the blink of an eye- its hard to wrap my mind around the fact that spring semester is 25% over already. Having had a very bad case of the flu this month, I felt pretty out of it for about a week and am finally starting to feel better now. This semester feels very presentation focused as we have three classes that require us to make presentations. I think it's a cool way to get all of us talking about the material and pick things out that we want to learn about. Although, it is a bit stressful as I ended up getting scheduled to do three presentations in the span of a month. This month we did hormones and the neurology module. I find neurology to be slightly more difficult than other topics, mainly because it feels harder to conceptualize in the body. While most organs in the body have very obvious structure/function relationships, the brain feels a lot more arcane in that sense. As it is a mass of neural tissue, it's harder for me to imagine dr...