Sanjay Anand Louis Tulane Pharm blog

 COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS: 4 Hours, soup kitchen      This month was, despite being super stressful thanks to all of my presentations aligning on nearly back to back weeks, was one of my favorite of the program, thanks to the material we were being lectured on. Dr. Clarkson mentioned during our orientation that the psychopharm module was one of the best, and I can see why he was tooting its horn - I haven't been so invested in a module before, as the topics presented were just fascinating. The fact of the matter is, a lot of the illnesses discussed during the modules, like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's, are unsolved medical mysteries; at least, even more so than usual. The lectures felt like being presented a challenge, as the next generation of medical practitioners and researchers, as these awful ailments beckon towards me and my class members to add our own contribution to the fight against them. I have a personal connection to the epilepsy lectures, as a close fri...

 COMMUNITY SERVICE: 10 hours soup kitchen. This month was an extremely interesting month for me in terms of program curriculum, as we did both endocrine pharmacology, one of my worst subjects, immediately followed by neuropharmacology, one of my best. In fact, in undergrad, taking an endocrine biology unit test and doing abysmally was one of the reasons I decided to change my major from biology to neuroscience, so it was amusing to see them lined up back to back like they were this semester. It served as a nice reminder of my progression as a student - past Sanjay might have stumbled and lost motivation to perform well on a subject that he wasn't particularly interested in, but now I put in genuine effort to keep up the academic hot streak I've been on over the past year, and it's nice to know I can give anything the same amount of energy and discipline if it helps me progress in my academic career. After coming home from spring break, I decided to knock out my community se...