Peru Fundraising

This July, I will be going to Peru with a group of 10 other medical students, to provide free medical, dental, and health education services. For the first week, we will be working in local hospitals, assisting doctors with medical care. For the second week, we will be assisting with cleft-palate and cleft-lip surgeries. During my last week, I will be traveling throughout the country and hiking to Machu Picchu. I am so excited and can't wait to share my pictures and memories with all of you. For now, I am trying to fundraise for my trip, because helping people in foreign countries ain't cheap! If you would like to support this trip and help me out, please click the link below! Any donation will help! 


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Thank you for your support!!!


On another note, I just finished my neuroscience final. So, all I have left is my Virology final on Tuesday and Pathology final on Thursday! After that, semester number two of medical school is over and I am a embarking on a fabulous/much needed week long vacation to the outer banks of North Carolina with my favorite med school friends. So excited! 

Breslin Center

Today was Second Look Day for the incoming class of 2016. So, I volunteered to be a tour guide. As part of this job, we were invited to attend the reception at the end of the day at the Breslin Center, the basketball stadium at MSU. I had seen the outside of the building many times, but have not yet gotten the chance to go inside. So, I was pretty excited. When we entered, the staff told us they were offering tours of the Breslin for whoever wanted to go on one. I was all about that. Coming from EGHS (a high school known for producing good college athletes), to UCLA, and now to MSU, I have always been a big school sports fan. So, I was a little over-excited for this tour:

I <3 Sparty

Izzo's Office! Sooo cool! 

LOTS of big trophies everywhere! 

Championship Rings

1 Year Blog-aversary!

 Today marks the one year anniversary of my blog! It has been one of the best, most life-changing years of my life. So, I thought it would be nice to do a picture diary of some of highlights of my last year! 

After 8 years, this was my last summer working for CSD! 

Going away party! (Rafting portion)

Going away party! (Dinner portion)

Cross Country Road Trip: Yellowstone! 

Cross Country Roadtrip: Mount Rushmore

First week in Michigan! Meeting my roommates! 

Orientation Week: Community Service

White Coat Ceremony

Pretending to be a doctor, part 1: Surgery Scrub Session

Pretending to be a doctor part 2: Casting Clinic

Pretending to be a doctor part 3: Intubation Clinic

Joining Student Council

Working hard and playing hard!
(Anatomy flashcards at the bar) 

My first snow!

Trip to Disneyworld with S! 

Kelsey's Bachelorette Party in Vegas

Its been an amazing last year! I have learned an incredible amount in school, I have traveled to a lot of new places (all across America) and I have met the most amazing people (shout out to A team). I can't believe I am almost done with my first year of medical school already and can't wait to share with all of you blog readers what I am up to over the next three years! 

Crosstown Showdown

Last night, about 20 of my classmates and I went to the annual "Crosstown Showdown!" This is a MSU (college team) v. Lansing Lugnuts (Minor League team).

We started the evening at the Roadhouse Pub. Then, we headed into downtown Lansing to go to the Colley Baseball Stadium. When I first heard that this was an annual game, I thought it was a really cool idea, but expected the Lugnuts to kick MSU's butt...they are a professional team, after all. However, after 6 innings, the score was 0-0. To be honest, it was kind of a boring game at that point. I'm just glad I was surrounded by great company to make it really fun! Top of the 7th, MSU again gets 3 outs without any runs, but then something changed. When the Lansing Lugnuts went to bat, they made not 1, not 2, not 3..but 7 runs! 7! In one inning. It was pretty crazy. I was obviously rooting for MSU, but at that point I was excited for some excitement!

So, in the end, MSU lost, but it was a really great event. Its always fun to get out of my little radiology/clinical center bubble. I can't wait for this summer to go to more baseball games in downtown Lansing!