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Community service hours completed in May: 4 hours Community service hours completed in total: 24 hours This past weekend I completed my community service hours finishing out my total hours required. This also represents the last requirement before I graduate which is very much bittersweet as I will miss my time in this program for multiple reasons as I enjoyed the friends I made and the experiences I had in New Orleans as well as academically getting a peak into medical school as I fully enjoyed getting to learn more of what pharmacology was which is going to be so useful later in my schooling and career, but also in my every day life. I think my most favorite parts of the program were of course the content, but also things that pushed me out of my comfort zone like all the various presentations we did which made me a better and more confident presenter and aided my better understanding of scientific research articles. I will be staying in New Orleans following graduation working as a

April Community Service Hours Completed: 17 Total Community Service Hours Completed: 20 All Hours will be completed by Friday, May 3rd!      This month and especially the last two weeks, I completed the bulk of my community service hours by spending my time at Second Harvest Food Bank of New Orleans and partaking in making homemade cards for Braid Mission's Cards of Hope program. Over the years in undergrad, I participated in many in-person service opportunities through my sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and as a co-founder of a non-profit organization based out of Nashville named Launch Mentorship and volunteering at Second Harvest these last few weeks really made me miss the special nature that is a group working together to directly impact their community and getting to see the fruits of your compassion and labor. During my shifts there, I packaged loaves of bread from different suppliers to go to various clients, put together 5lb bags of sweet potatoes and packaged l