Medical Pharmacology ePortfolio: January
Hey Everyone!
It feels like it has been forever since my last blog post. I am excited to bring you all back up to speed with how my time is going in New Orleans. For winter break I went back to New York City to see my family. It was nice to be home and eat my moms home cooked food. However, NYC was seriously freezing. It made me think back to when I first applied to Tulane undergrad 5 years ago. I hate the cold and I love the New Orleans "slightly chilly" version of winter. Although our break felt too short, I was more than glad to come back to school and start working again.
This month some of the masters students, and myself, volunteered for the 50/50 raffle group during the Saints vs. Panthers game. The 50/50 raffle is a charity that sells raffle tickets during sporting events, and then through a lottery system gives half of the total money collected to one lucky individual and the other half to charity. The charity that was selected for this game was the United Negro College Foundation. I was extremely excited when I learned it was this charity, because I had done charity with them last semester.
Our group of pharmacology volunteers did an amazing job. We were selling tickets at such a high volume that by the end of the game the lottery was approaching over $120,000! We would have sold even more, but sadly the ticket system stopped working during the third quarter. I would like to believe that the masters students did such an amazing job that our hard work literally surpassed the ability of the machines to keep up. However, I would need to check with the masters of computer science program to verify.
I am excited to continue doing more charitable work throughout the rest of the semester. I also am enjoying our new set of classes. This semester, our type of work has been expanded. We have more presentations, reading assignments, and group discussions. I really like this learning style. I believe that to truly understand a topic, one must be able to have thoughtful conversations about it. I also feel like the entire class has gotten better at our presentation skills, which I am sure will come in handy later in life.
Until next month! - Adam
January Community Service Hours: 8
Spring Semester Community Service Hours: 8
It feels like it has been forever since my last blog post. I am excited to bring you all back up to speed with how my time is going in New Orleans. For winter break I went back to New York City to see my family. It was nice to be home and eat my moms home cooked food. However, NYC was seriously freezing. It made me think back to when I first applied to Tulane undergrad 5 years ago. I hate the cold and I love the New Orleans "slightly chilly" version of winter. Although our break felt too short, I was more than glad to come back to school and start working again.
This month some of the masters students, and myself, volunteered for the 50/50 raffle group during the Saints vs. Panthers game. The 50/50 raffle is a charity that sells raffle tickets during sporting events, and then through a lottery system gives half of the total money collected to one lucky individual and the other half to charity. The charity that was selected for this game was the United Negro College Foundation. I was extremely excited when I learned it was this charity, because I had done charity with them last semester.
Our group of pharmacology volunteers did an amazing job. We were selling tickets at such a high volume that by the end of the game the lottery was approaching over $120,000! We would have sold even more, but sadly the ticket system stopped working during the third quarter. I would like to believe that the masters students did such an amazing job that our hard work literally surpassed the ability of the machines to keep up. However, I would need to check with the masters of computer science program to verify.
I am excited to continue doing more charitable work throughout the rest of the semester. I also am enjoying our new set of classes. This semester, our type of work has been expanded. We have more presentations, reading assignments, and group discussions. I really like this learning style. I believe that to truly understand a topic, one must be able to have thoughtful conversations about it. I also feel like the entire class has gotten better at our presentation skills, which I am sure will come in handy later in life.
Until next month! - Adam
January Community Service Hours: 8
Spring Semester Community Service Hours: 8
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