Community service hours:  7  out of 12 A month into my first ever graduate program and it has been very eye opening to say the very least! Coming from a non-science background to a 100% science-based program has not only made me very nervous about not succeeding but it has also been like trying to learn a new foreign language for me. Nervous, I still have faith that I will come out on top! I am now finding myself randomly stopping at the pharmacy during my trips to Walmart and Walgreens just to look at the back of the medications reading about the side effects, drug-drug interactions, ingredients, etc. I am already confident that this program will for sure help me out when it comes time for me to apply to medical school.  This past month I had the opportunity to volunteer in Lake Charles, Louisiana helping out families that had been affected by Hurricane Laura. Hurricane Laura was reported as the 5th strongest storm to make landfall in the U.S. So I, along with my coworker and his frat