(Volunteering Hours: 15 hrs, not including Environmental Pharm)

March 2014

Now that our NBME Shelf exam is finished, it’s all basically a downhill ride from here! I don’t think that I’ve studied that much for a test ever in my entire life… After about two and half weeks of grueling studying, that monster of an exam is FINALLY over! We had a few days to relax following the Shelf exam, but we had to kick it back into gear this past weekend as we have another exam (in our Cellular Control Mechanisms class) this upcoming Tuesday.  

I am still volunteering at Touro Infirmary in the Emergency Department but in much less frequency than last semester.  As this semester was heavily frontloaded with coursework and studying, I put volunteering on the back burner for a little bit.  However, our class did participate in sampling New Orleans soil to test for lead in and around children’s play areas.  A professor here at Tulane, Dr. Mielke, has been conducting lead research in New Orleans for about 20 years now, I believe.  My classmates and I went around the city and collected samples for Dr. Mielke to test their lead levels and subsequently plot them onto a map.  

Still hard to believe that we barely have a month left of this program and then we’re finished, we’ll be graduating in about a month an a half…