February 2018
Hey everyone! I hope your February was good like mine! This month went by pretty quickly, but then again it's the shortest month of the year (ha ha). I celebrated my 23rd birthday, enjoyed my 5th Mardi Gras, and I ended up on the news for tree planting with SOUL NOLA, which was neat. We finished up our last Brain and Behavior block this month, which was nice but also sad because I really enjoyed this block. We have the NBME shelf exam coming up in about a week, which is very intimidating to say the least. It's crazy to think how we have 2 months left in this program, with some of us going on very different paths afterwards. I continued to work with Salvation Army and SOUL NOLA this month. It was nice to continue to work with these community partners because of the familiar faces I encountered again, and it's always nice to be able to serve the community of New Orleans. Our recent tree planting session was actually covered on the news, which was really cool! You can ev