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  Service Hours Total: 12 The semester came to a very stressful end for me on Tuesday. Over the weekend, I started feeling bad, running a fever, and just being generally nauseous. Because of this, I wasn’t able study fully for our finals on Tuesday. I managed to get a day of studying in before taking the test, which I was thankful for. I didn’t do as well as I had hoped, which I was not exactly happy about, but it could have been worse. I also found out at the end of this that it is possible to delay an exam due to illness, which will not help me now, but I will be sure to remember for the future. It is behind me now so I am moving on to next semester. December is always an exciting time for me. I normally do lots of travelling and see all of my friends that I don’t normally get to see. This was no different for this year, so far. A few weeks ago, my brother told me he bought a new puppy for his girlfriend and was going to have to have it shipped from Maine to North Carolina. After...

Service hours: 4 Total: 12 This month, the module that stood out the most to me was the cardiology section. I was surprised by how much I really enjoyed it, and that showed through in my grades. After we had those lectures, I read more into the field of cardiology, and it is something that I could see myself wanting to practice in the future. One of the things I did to investigate it was listen to “Specialty Stories,” which is a podcast by Dr. Ryan Gray. In one of the episodes he was talking to a pediatric congenital heart surgeon and I was fascinated the entire time. In another episode, he talked to a Med-Peds physician, trained by Tulane, which I found even more interesting considering I could do that, and then do a cardiology fellowship after and be triple boarded. This is the most excited I have been about something since my acceptance. Speaking of, I did not hear anything from any of the school I applied to, during the month of November and I am starting to get a little concerned....

     I returned to New Orleans at the end of September/beginning of October. After not having more than a week of in-person classes since early Spring 2020, I came to the realization that I really preferred online lectures rather than in-person ones. I started to feel as if I couldn’t pay attention as well in in-person classes and I don’t know why this is. Perhaps it is because when I am watching the lecture on my laptop, I can pause to finish writing a not or rewind if I think I missed something. Either way, I have been trying keep my attention focused on the lecture while I am present in class and I am doing a better job at it, but it is hard after not being in class for so long. I have also noticed my study habits are not sufficient to perform at a level that I am used to performing at. I am trying different strategies with varying success, but I believe I have found the best way. In the middle of October, I was also accepted to the University of Mississippi Medical Sc...

I was lucky enough to have friends close to New Orleans that I could go stay with until Ida passed. We originally thought we were going to have to evacuate again but the storm ended up turning before us and we barely got any rain at all. The wife of my friend that I was staying with works for FEMA, and we stayed up for the duration of the hurricane and talked about the ways FEMA could help and what we could do as individuals to help. After it passed and I-10 was reopened, I drove back to New Orleans to check on my apartment and see if I could help anywhere. On my way back, I was so overwhelmed with gratitude as I saw countless electrical trucks, trucks carrying gasoline, and other vehicles carrying water and other supplies. My mother lived in New Orleans for a little while after college and often tells me about the nickname “The City That Care Forgot.” This was not the case after this disaster. Right before I got to Metairie, my classmate, Jared Rosbrugh, called me and said he was work...