October Check-In
October has been busy and incredibly food-focused! This month has been filled with medical school applications, as I rushed to submit primaries and secondaries between our class exams. Our program has also started picking up in terms of difficulty. However, our professors have been extremely helpful in guiding us in navigating the tricky content material. I have also had the opportunity to do a number of social activities, getting more involved in the local community. I kicked the month off by going to a Vietnamese Moon Festival and the Fried Chicken Festival with some classmates. It was great to have a chance to interact with classmates outside of the academic setting, learning more about why we are all here. While the festival food iteself delicious, we all swore to never eat chicken again solely based on how much we had eaten that weekend...that is, until Subway had a discount on subs that same week... One of the benefits of volunteering in a Teaching Kitchen is sampling the mercha