January Blog
Fall Volunteer Hours: 42 Spring Volunteer Hours: 0 After the much needed break over the holidays, I returned to New Orleans excited for the spring semester. We have a different set of classes which plan to cover some interesting topics. This semester seems to dive more into specific systems compared to last semester. The most recent module was the endocrine module, during which we dove into the topics of diabetes and thyroid dysfunction. I found learning about the very prominent disease of diabetes very rewarding, and coincidentally found it coming up in my conversations outside the classroom as well. Due to COVID resurgence, our classes were unfortunately moved online for all of January. With many of our new classes being more discussion oriented, creating that same environment over zoom has been challenging. To my dismay, the ball for the graduate students that was planned for the end of the month was canceled. I was looking forward to a New Orleans ball experience, so was pretty di