The second year at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University is both an exciting and stressful one. For this blog post, I sat down with a couple of second year friends to discuss their two years at Rollins. Read my informal sit-down interviews with them to learn more about how diverse second year …
Life as a Certificate Candidate
This week, I had a wild realization. “I actually finished all the requirements for my certificates!” And then there was a drop back to reality when I remembered I still had to finish my capstone… but that’s okay! Being mostly done with my certificates in Injury & Violence Prevention (IVP) and Mental Health felt like …
Exploring New Topic Areas in Grad School
Before starting at Rollins, I spent a lot of time thinking about brains. I completed my undergrad degrees in neuroscience and urban studies, and I worked in a biomedical psychiatry lab for a couple years after graduating. Mental health is important to me for a variety of personal and professional reasons, but as I started …