I am now a sophomore in the STEM Exploration and Engagement Scholars Program. Although my path has changed somewhat since my freshman year, I am still very involved in the Scholars program and am glad that I got the opportunity to be involved in my own capstone project. I am still an accounting major and my minor has slightly changed to theatre now instead of musical theatre. When looking for something that I could do my capstone project on, I decided to try to put a few of my different passions together. After asking around and emailing professors, one program specifically stuck out to me. It is called ‘Drumming for Wellness”. This is a project at Ohio State that collaborates with the music department and the Wexner Medical Center. There are two professors in charge and many graduate students in charge as well. As of right now, I am the only undergraduate student who has helped in this program which has really given me the opportunity to learn so much from everyone else around me. This program is using music therapy to help Parkinson’s patients. The type of music therapy that is used involves drumming which helps with hand-eye coordination and many other things that many patients of Parkinson’s may struggle with. Basically, for three weeks, every weekday, up to 8 patients would meet with two graduate students and I. We went through many different drumming warmups, games, and programs with them for an hour each day. Some of the tasks even involved getting up and moving around. I also got to initiate some of the different activities and create my own as well. The patients were screened before and after and the neuroscience students working with the medical center are still working on the results. Although, the last time they did the program, patients showed positive results. This semester, I am taking a graduate course that allows me to learn more about Parkinson’s disease in general, drumming, and work on a community drumming for wellness event at the Thompson Center in Columbus. I am so grateful that I got the opportunity to be involved with a program that combines so many of my passions and interests.