I’ve heard that PhDs are granted approval to graduate once their committees are satisfied that all love, inspiration, and idealism for their field of study is beaten out of them.\u00c2\u00a0 Largely, I find this to be true, which is why I’ve found so much enjoyment out of the job holding the largest portion of my part-time work pie.<\/p>\n
I am program director for a small nonprofit in New Orleans where I get the pleasure of supervising and mentoring roughly a dozen graduate students who dream up, design, and implement service projects in underserved communities.\u00c2\u00a0 Simply put, they rock.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday, we had over 20 interviews to narrow down our finalists to the dozen we decided we could take for the next Fellowship cycle.\u00c2\u00a0 Of the ones I co-conducted, these are some sound-bites that inspired me (or made me laugh).<\/p>\n
— “I had never really thought about Tulane for Medical School.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, as I was reading about different Medical Schools in the AMA guide, Tulane was the ONLY Medical school program that distinctly and specifically says it is focused on training physicians within a community health model, and requires community service from all Medical students.\u00c2\u00a0 That is when I knew it was the only school I wanted to attend.”<\/p>\n
— “I’ve lived my whole life in California and never thought I would leave.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I visited New Orleans… and I was blown away.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess the rest of the country has no idea, because I had no idea… I had no idea how great life here was…”<\/p>\n
— “I was worried.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, it’s the SOUTH.\u00c2\u00a0 But wow, I mean, it wasn’t so bad after all!”<\/p>\n
— “Everyone here is SO HAPPY.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, was it like this before Katrina, too, or is it all that medication people talk about?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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