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Yoga to Try It: How Yoga Stretched My Mind and Body

By: Sabrina Wang As a pre-med student, life gets pretty hectic. Between juggling classes, studying for exams, student orgs, volunteering, working, research, and finding time with friends, there really isn’t much time for anything else–except panicking over everything just listed and constantly feeling like you aren’t doing enough, and everything you were doing just wasn’t…

10 Cardinal Rules for Surviving the First Year

By: Timothy Dixon So you’re starting your journey to medical school. Congrats! I am certain there’s quite the cocktail of emotions stirring inside of you comprised of excitement, motivation, and relief, mixed in with a little bit (or a lot) of fear and uncertainty of the unknown. Well they say hindsight is 20/20, and as…

Acupuncture and Popularity of Integrative Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practices Today

By: Coco Victoria Gomez Tirambulo Happy Wellness Wednesday, everyone! I recently watched a documentary called The Gut: Our Second Brain on Amazon Prime Video. It was released in 2013 and offers an interesting perspective on how our guts dictate many aspects of our daily lives and how we may not even be in control of our…

Wellness Wednesday: Romance in Medical School

  Dearest Reader, Roses are Red Violets are Blue Med school is tough But so are you! -Cupid, MS1   Considering that Valentine’s Day is around the corner, the Wellness & Student Life committee wanted to share advice on maintaining healthy relationships with significant others in medical school. Fair warning: This post is long, but…