March brought a return to parading in New Orleans in honor
of St. Patrick’s day. I felt like I was
transported back in time two thousand years ago seeing people beg for
vegetables, though they are admittedly more practical than beads. It’s also fun showing friends that come to
visit around, it hasn’t even been a year since we were given tours of the city
by the NOLA natives. Our core courses
have wound up, and many of us are spending more time in research labs or
volunteering. A few of us are off to
collect soil samples to determine the lead levels for one of our elective
courses, and we had an interesting talk about stress induced epigenetic
changes. The broken window hypothesis might
incline me to fix some upside down signs around my house. The BMS department hosted a crawfish boil
which was a good opportunity to relax and meet new people. Some people might think that shrimp boils are
preferable to crawfish, but they or may not have learned to keep their opinions
largely to themselves. The Pharmacology
department boil should be coming up shortly.
We had some interesting stories regarding MCAT testing facilities and
associated characters today, my experience was entirely painless.
