“A whole new world.” When looking back at my first semester of pharmacy school, this lyric from Aladdin resonates in my mind. Essentially, this is going to pharmacy school in a nutshell; new classmates, professors, organizations, and more—it truly is a whole new world!

What if I told you to pack all of your favorite things into your car and move more than 800 miles away? Well, that’s what I did!

Outside of pharmacy school, though, I have a different way of showing people that I care for them: cooking.

Nowadays, between my school classrooms to my workplace, it’s become a recurring question that people ask me: “Why didn’t you go to art school?”

As I was deleting the 1,000+ emails on my phone, I came across an email from DKMS, an international nonprofit bone marrow donor center, that looked suspiciously like spam. The subject line read, “You’re a Match!” This seemed odd, but I clicked on the email and read what it had to say. I didn’t even remember signing up for the bone marrow donor registry, but I gave them a call in the middle of my IPPE community pharmacy rotation. After chatting with a representative from DKMS and Be The Match, I found out I had been in the registry since March of 2021.