I was picked to be the Assistant to the Vice President of Membership for my sorority. This experience has taught me so much already and I have not even done that much work yet. I am responsible for helping the Vice president help plan recruitment 2020 and also help with all of the miscellaneous  things that need to be done for the sorority and its members. Some of the things that I am in charge of is making sure that everyone knows what they are required to do for recruitment by organizing and running recruitment workshops, making sure that the right number of people are present for events, budgeting and buying decorations, food, etc. and much more.

Through this experience I have gained so much confidence in my ability to talk to people and help organize events. This experience has helped me gain the abilities needed to work with others later in life for my profession and just through other organizations. I am so excited to continue this experience and be able to broaden my leadership abilities. I cannot wait to see all of my hard work be shown during recruitment 2020.

Medical school is a very daunting thing to an incoming freshman. While talking to upperclassman I have learned multiple things about the process to medical school. One thing that I learned is to gain experiences throughout undergrad. This includes things like clubs and time in the hospital. Being just apart of a club is a good thing, but gaining a leadership position and learning how to be a leader would be the most beneficial thing on a medical school application. This would show that you have leadership qualities and the ability to mange people. Also getting experience in a hospital will be very beneficial in the long run. This will help me learn more about a hospital works and maybe even help me learn what I want to do in the medical field later in my life. When the time comes, a good personal letter will help a lot with having a better chance to get into medical school. Like always having good grades throughout undergrad will help in the long run, but having a wholesome application will help the best. Trying to even out all of the areas that medical schools look at on an application will be very helpful to get into medical school. I am very excited to go through my journey that hopefully leads me to medical school and hopefully to my dream of becoming a surgeon.

For HSS, we had to complete at least 20 hours of service. In the first semester, I attended many service events that HSS had put on. One of the events I went to was the Unverferth House. This is a place where families of patients at the hospital can stay and still be close to the hospital. At the house we went and cleaned the kitchen, living rooms, and bathrooms. We also raked the leaves and mowed the lawn. This trip was to make sure these people felt comfortable being in this house and have to just worry about their family member and nothing else. I also went to the Garden of Hope with many HSS members. At the garden we cleaned it up by pulling weeds and raking to make sure that it was ready for the next season of crops.  I also attended the Ronald McDonald treat bag making that Park-Stradley put on. We just made treat bags for the Ronald McDonald house filled with candy and little toys that went to children during Halloween time. For the second semester, I participated in Buckeyethon. This is an event that raises money for pediatric cancer that is going to help hopefully find a cure in the future. I volunteered at the night shift and the whole 12 hours, everybody was raising money and having fun with multiple children from the hospital. During the first and second semester when I was home, I went and worked at the food pantry at my church. At the food pantry I helped people pick out what food they wanted and helped carry their bags to their car or wherever they were going. I am looking forward to getting to create my own service project and help out throughout the community.