\u00a0Prior to joining the Hopkins postbac program I attended Wake Forest University and majored in psychology and minored in mathematics. I was a women\u2019s soccer player at Wake and really enjoyed getting involved with the community through service and volunteering opportunities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would say the best experience I had during the postbac was the opportunity to get involved in research I was passionate about through my medical tutorial. Hopkins is such an amazing place to explore different avenues of research, and allows you to truly find a personalized and niche path. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My medical tutorial was in a\u00a0basic-science immunology based lab\u00a0under Dr. Christopher Jackson in the department of neurosurgery. Prior to my medical tutorial, I had no research experience, and am so grateful for Dr. Jackson and his lab members who taught me everything I know. It is the place where I found my passion for research and am so grateful to have been able to explore the mechanistic and immunological basis behind immunosuppression in treatment resistant cancers such as glioblastoma. I ended up spending two more years in the lab after graduating from the postbac to further delve into our projects and see them through.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My advice to future students: get into the mindset of taking everything one day at a time. The postbac is challenging but also rewarding. It is really easy to feel overwhelmed, but it is also what brings the cohort together – the postbac is where I met one of my closest friends. There are so many resources that are provided through the program and school that really make everything achievable and set you up for success – and I really do think the rigor of the program has contributed to my ability to adjust to the workload of medical school.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1469,"template":"","profiletype":[78],"class_list":["post-1467","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","profiletype-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/postbac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/postbac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/postbac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/postbac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/postbac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1467\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/postbac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/postbac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profiletype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/postbac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiletype?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}