Introduction to me
Hello everyone, and welcome to my blog! My name is Evan Shrestha and I am very excited to be a part of this class. I am currently a Junior Pre-Med student majoring in chemical biosciences and minoring in Spanish. I was originally Biochemistry as I had a love for chemistry coming out of high school. This love hasn't faded by no means, but my love of biology and human physiology has greatly increased. With regards to career, I would love to be a physician in the future specializing in either cardiology or oncology. My passion for medicine really spiked after volunteering at a free clinic in Oklahoma City called Manos Juntas. Along with a few friends of mine, we started a club called Student Healthcare Outreach to help raise money for the clinic. This club has been a big endeavor for us but we have been receiving some great interest in the community. Enough about school! Outside of the classroom, I love music. Not only do I love listening to music, but I enjoy playing music and learning new songs! Currently, I play the piano and guitar. In the past, however, I played the violin as well. My favorite genres of music include rock, alternative, and indie rock. I am usually fine with other genres of music with exceptions to country and rap. Since my family is from India and Nepal, my food tastes are heavily influenced by my culture. For the most part, my motto is everything is better spicy! Now if I had an extra fun day all to myself, I would most likely book the next flight to a beach somewhere and take a nap on the sand. Having lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma since I was 8, I have always loved the ocean and how calming it can be. My favorite vacations from my childhood all include beaches of some sort.
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Another Tulsa person! It's great to see someone who grew up in my hometown and read about their lives. So interesting how two people living in relative closeness can be so different! It is a shame you don't like rap, although it definietly is an aquired taste... I look forward to reading more from you as the semester goes on!
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ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you’re very passionate about your future career! That is awesome and will get you far. It must also be so awesome to have family from different cultures – though I’m unable to appreciate spiciness like you! I also am from Tulsa – small world. I love beaches too. Interesting how we can be from the same town yet have new introductions every day.
The story of your Healthcare Outreach club is inspiring, Evan: fantastic! And how wonderful to have family connections to both India and Nepal! Since I teach a class about Indian Epics, I've tried to collect lots of books about the storytelling traditions of India, and we even have a complete collection of Amar Chitra Katha comic books
ReplyDeleteon Reserve in Bizzell for that class, and anybody can check them out, so maybe that is something you want to explore this semester. And of course there are all kinds of folklore and mythological traditions about medicine, and about music... I'm curious to see what possibilities you will want to explore for a project in this class!
Hello Evan, nice to meet you. I love that you found your passion through volunteering around the community and now you are pursuing a career in that path. Also, how incredible that you and your friends started the health outreach club! I would love to get involved in that is some way or another. It seems like you keep pretty busy. I hope you have a great semester!
ReplyDeleteHey Evan! You sound so passionate about your major! I wish I loved chemistry but I actually struggled a lot with it in high school. But I'm so glad your passion for chemistry and biology and physiology is growing! I play the guitar too although I haven't picked one up since my senior year of high school! Good luck in med school and I look forward to reading all of your posts this semester!
ReplyDeleteHi Evan! I think it's really cool how you found so much passion for your major through volunteer work, and how you and your friends started a club to help out with a local clinic. I also play the piano, as well as the trombone. I'm absolutely hopeless with string instruments, though, so I'm impressed that you can play guitar and violin.
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ReplyDeleteIt is great that you have a passion for medicine. I also hope to go to medical school in a couple of years, too. I thought about oncology, but I am leaning more towards neonatology because I really want to work with infants. I was actually thinking about volunteering at Manos Juntas, but unfortunately I am studying Russian and not Spanish, so I felt like I should pick somewhere else. I would hate to not be able to communicate effectively with the patients!
Hi Evan! Wow, you are really dedicated! It is so amazing that you have put your passions and hard work into such a rewarding and helpful career. Being able to create a club such as your Student Healthcare Outreach must have a meaningful impact and it is so generous of you to put so much effort and care into helping others access the medical care that they need! I'm also really into music. I played the viola for about seven years before I came to college. I don't play anymore but my roommate is a music performance major so I still see how fun and invigorating music can be! It is so awesome that your family is from such a different place as opposed to the United States. You must have some awesome cultural influences and different experiences that would be awesome to see surface your stories!
ReplyDeleteHey Evan! Pre-med and chemical biosciences sounds like a really tough workload, but it sounds like you still love chemistry and biology. Starting your own club to help fund a clinic is incredible and inspiring. It's good to hear that it's getting attention, and I hope it keeps going well!
ReplyDeleteThose music tastes are good, and I'm definitely not biased because I mostly share them. I've tended towards music from videogames and TV shows lately, but good rock music never gets old.
Hi Evan! I think it's really cool that you're so dedicated to serving the community, through both your career path and your extracurriculars! It sounds like you're going to do a lot of good in the world. I also admire that you play several instruments. I play piano and some ukulele. I have a guitar, but I also have the hands of an eight-year-old, so learning gets frustrating when I seem physically incapable of reaching a lot of chords. As another Oklahoma native (I'm from Edmond/OKC), I completely understand your love of beaches. My girlfriend's extended family has a beach house in North Carolina and I desperately wish it wasn't so far away, because it's so relaxing.
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ReplyDeleteI have a number of friends than work with Manos Juntas and really seemed to love it, so it is great to hear that you enjoy it too! Also props to you for learning how to play the violin... orchestral music is some of my favorite to study to, and I think the violin is just beautiful. I also think that your food motto should be your everything motto... just saying. :)
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ReplyDeleteI love that you are so passionate about your major and know what you wish to specialize in after med school. This is definitely a challenge many people experience. I always love hearing why people want to become doctors and go to med school, and yours was interesting. It's cool that you and your friends started your own club to benefit that clinic in OKC. I'm a health and exercise major, so I love hearing about other health majors.
Hey Evan! I also am a Pre-Med student who volunteers at Manos Juntas, so that is awesome! I also think it's really cool that you play so many instruments. I always wanted to play the piano but never got very advanced at it, so props to you!!! I also agree with your motto about everything is better spicy :-) I hope you have a good semester and good luck with SHO!!
ReplyDeleteHey Evan, are you applying to schools this year? If so, good luck to you! My girlfriend volunteers at Manos Juntas nearly every weekend so I've heard that it's a great experience. I also think it's great that you find time to keep up with music, I've just started learning how to play guitar myself this semester, which has been very fun.
ReplyDeleteHi Evan! I gotta say... your blog looks super nice! It looks like you have put a lot of time into it! We have similar music tastes. I really love alternative and indie rock . My favorite band at the moment is Weezer.. is that weird? I actually like rap though. I think it is great that you like chemistry. Someone on this planet needs to... and that person won't be me. I study psychology, so it is pretty far from being anything like chemistry. Also, props to you for starting a club and raising money! That is really impressive and shows you take initiative for the community.
ReplyDeleteHi Evan! I loved chemistry out of high school as well and that’s why I chose chemical engineering as my major. It seems that you are very passionate about getting into med school and becoming a physician and I think that’s great. It also seems like you are a helping person and want to reach out and help everyone you can.
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ReplyDeleteI am from Owasso, just north of Tulsa! Your major sounds really hard! What made you want to take this class? That's awesome that you want to be a physician and even cooler that you want to specialize in cardiology! My dad has had a heart transplant so I am very familiar with what all they do, and hopefully one day you can help someone just like my dad was! I'm looking forward to reading your blog!
Hey Evan! It is so nice to meet you! That is awesome that you selected such a difficult major and to pursue a pre-medical path. I am from Oklahoma too, and since there are no beaches here I enjoy traveling to the beach too! I am curious, what has your favorite beach or vacation destination been? Good luck with your studies, and I am glad I got to learn a little bit about you through your intro post!
ReplyDeleteHey Evan! I love that you got involved in healthcare with Manos Juntos! My brother is a med student at OU's med school in OKC and he volunteers with his fiance, who is a nurse, at Manos Juntos all the time! Did you decide to take on a Spanish minor so you can do more volunteer work there and at other places like it? Good luck with finishing undergrad and with med-school. I look forward to reading your stories!
ReplyDeleteHi Evan! Best of luck in your medical pursuit, are you applying this next cycle? It's a doozy of a process, so make sure to remember to take time for yourself as you need it. My girlfriend is actually in Student Health Outreach and volunteers at Manos Juntas as well, so that's really neat! I'm sure I'm not the first to make this pitch to you, but rap/hip-hop have a lot of depth as a genres and I'm sure there's something out there for you. Good to meet you, and again: good luck!
ReplyDeleteHi Evan! It's great to hear your story, we have a ton in common. I'm starting at OU Med next semester and I was actually also biochemistry but I switched to microbiology because I liked the biology stuff a lot better. Its awesome that you're involved in some of the outreach stuff, I got really involved with a clinic called Lighthouse Clinic and I know its going to drastically change the way I run my practice later in life. Keep pushing, you'll make it!
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ReplyDeleteI really like the design and layout of your blog and I thought the picture you choose for your introduction complemented your post really well! I can obviously tell that you are truly passionate about your career path and I ‘m also interested in pursing a career in medicine. I hope you are having a great semester so far and I can’t wait to explore the rest of your blog!
Hi Evan! I am baffled that you have time to volunteer, create campus organizations, play instruments, and study! But go you! it's impressive. I also love indie rock and if you're a Spotify listener, I would recommend the playlist "Feel Good Indie Rock". It's a great everyday playlist. Good luck with the rest of the semester and med school!
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