Pharm for Thought

My last Pharm for Thought blog post- Just like that, a year of time spent at Tulane is coming to a close! Though the last month and a half hasn't physically been at Tulane with the COVID-19 restrictions, online classes concluded and that's a wrap! Our last Cellular Control test was yesterday, and boy was it hard! But thankfully it's all over and now the real challenge of job hunting, MCAT studying, and med school applications will consume my time. Though I have been going slightly stir crazy, I used my newfound large amounts of time in the past few weeks to volunteer! Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10:30-12:30 I've been preparing meals on the West Bank at a middle school with ladies who work for Volunteers of America. We include breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for students of the school, up to 10 meals a day per family. I really enjoy it, knowing that so many kids in Jefferson Parish rely on school lunch to eat, so making sure that they can still do so in

Oh how much has changed in a month! I think it goes without saying that March threw everyone for a loop. But with that, I'll get into the normalcy that ensued the first half of the month. School wise, we had our Psych block set of tests, and they went well! That marked the end of our Medical Pharmacology and Principles of Pharmacology courses, and wow did that free up a lot of time! The time is now being used to study for the MCAT...yay, and focus on the last Cellular Control Mechanisms block! Speaking of, we just had our second test for Cellular Controls yesterday actually, and while I was quite nervous for it, it also went well! Now onto the elephant in the room: while school consumed a large part of my month, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic arguably halted almost everything. Not that I did much besides study, workout, and volunteer before it began, but even those 3 activities were jolted. Due to the high transmissibility of the virus, the gym closed, classes were moved online,