This past month-plus of living in New Orleans and starting the Pharmacology Masters has been pedal to the metal from get go. Settling in to NOLA life and school was a much easier transition than expected from my previous gap year working as an emergency department scribe in Memphis. There are points in almost every lecture that I can’t help but think back on a case from that job. Working in a clinical setting not only equipped me with a wide knowledge base coming into the program, but it also gave me real life cases to refer back to when learning about a particular pathophysiology or drug mechanism. During our Infectious Disease module, I was able to think back on all the antibiotics prescribed for different infections or initiated as first line empiric therapy and understand why certain antibiotics were given. In this most recent module while learning about cardiac physiology, I finally gained an understanding of the parts of an EKG and their clinical significance. These "aha!&