February as been a bit of blur, and not just because of Mardi Gras. It is time to begin getting serious in preparation for our modified "shelf" exam, which for all you kids at home is like a final exam mixed with standardized testing. It's a huge percentage of our grades and covers all of the major material that we have went over for the year. To say the least, we are feeling some stress about that as well as the MCAT. I think the majority of my class is also taking the MCAT in April, so back to back intensive studying, as well as working on major projects for some of my electives like Neuropharmacology and Endocrine Pharmacology is right around the corner. We began looking deeper into psychiatric drugs in a few of our courses this semester, a big class of those drugs being benzodiazepines (or "Benzos" as the title indicates). Benzodiazepines are drugs commonly used in the treatment of anxiety. They work with the GABAergic system, which in anxious patie
A reflection on my time in New Orleans