Tulane Tales

When I think of “home” I think of comfort, routine, and the norm. After spending four years in New Orleans as a Tulane University undergraduate, I knew this city is and would always be home for me. However, once I started the Master’s in Pharmacology program at the Tulane University School of Medicine, I didn’t feel the comfort or the routine I felt as an undergraduate. It seemed strange that I would be living at the same place as last year, but would be commuting to the downtown campus and attending lectures by the faculty of the medical school. As I expected, things began to pick back up, and I was able to gel again with the city and the school. This program has definitely been challenging so far, but it was never going to be easy going from undergraduate level courses to dense science classes, which included learning the physiology of the heart. It was very helpful to have a month of our program dedicated to the principles of pharmacology, especially since it served as a smooth...