Sean Howard '16 delivers his speech in front freshmen, his fellow sophomores, and juniors. For the first time ever, a rising junior has a significant chance at earning the top spot. With a chance to win over the other classes in the election and introduce fresh ideas into the club, Howard and the Medical Society as a whole face an interesting...
All the cool things that you think you did this past summer pale in comparison to what seniors Zachary Bishkin, Dylan Roberts, and Evan Loriot got to experience at Dallas' UT Southwestern Medical Center. For eight weeks, each of these three students performed research alongside a medical professional in UT Southwestern's labs as part of a paid summer internship,...
For the 16th year in a row, Jesuit’s Medical Society has hosted a school wide medicine drive to gather various medications for it's annual mission trip to Guatemala in the Spring. The drive started the second week of January and will continue through Friday, February 6th.
Focusing mainly on the freshmen and sophomore classes, “a different medication is assigned to each...
The Jesuit student nervously taps his finger on the dark brown desk. Suddenly, an older man walks into the dark room, causing the boy to immediately rise to greet his interviewer. Deliberately, the elder asks his first question, "why do you think you should be a part of this program?" Prepared, the boy rattles off the reason for his...
On March 21st, the Jesuit Medical Society sent off six students and teachers to poverty stricken Guatemala to bring much needed medical supplies to doctors there. Within a make shift pharmacy, science teachers Ms. Jan Jones, Mr. Max Von Schlehenried, and Mr. Ben Kirby dispensed valuable medical supplies, which you might remember donating earlier this year in your homeroom,...
Beginning in February, the Medical Society offered a weekly cat dissection, led by Ms. Clark. The dissection focused on learning about the anatomy of cats, and how that relates to humans. In the first two dissections, students began investing the cats by scraping away the outer layer of fat. In the next class, the students were educated about the...
His fingers shaking, his muscles flexing, his eyeballs bulging out of their sockets, the student frantically picks up the last bottle of medicine at Walmart, finally achieving his last service credit for the year. But, is getting service credits really what the medicine drive is all about?
The 2013 Jesuit Medicine Drive has come along and Ms. Jan Jones and...
Smiling children bustle cheerfully throughout a bright, happy kindergarten classroom, laughing, making new friends, and playing with toys. One child sits by himself, staring at the ground, repetitively moving a truck back and forth. Efforts from the other children to interact with this lonesome child are spurned and rejected.
Most people have interacted with a person like this, an individual...
