 I know now a lot of PA schools are looking for your hands-on patient care experience. Things like scribes and PSRs, which is what I did where I was just entering information, isn't necessarily as appealing as somebody who's actually dealing with directly with the patient. What's up, you guys? It's Adana. I am back with another video for you guys. Let me fix my hair, you guys, because it looks a little crazy right now. So you guys asked me to talk about the extra things that I did to help get me into PA school. I don't know if these helped, but I'm sure they didn't hurt. In my undergraduate program, we were able to do summer research pretty much every summer if we so chose, or if they so chose us. So my freshman year, I was able to do summer research. I went to Loma Linda, and I was able to do research on the E. coli bacteria, more specifically the AER protein in the E. coli bacteria that causes the bacteria to swim to nutrient-rich areas. I was truncating. I was helping truncate different portions of the bacteria's genome out in that particular protein to see what would happen. Would the bacteria still swim? Would it not? Would it just spin a circle? What exactly would the effect be? Initially, when I was in it, you guys, I did not appreciate it at all. I was like, man, I'm dealing with bacteria, and they're sitting up here dealing with cancer research and stuff. I was feeling really down because I'm like, man, I came all the way over to California to do some research on some bacteria. Shut your ungrateful *** up. Not fun. As I went on earlier, I understood the importance of the microbes in microbiology in cancer research and any type of research because you start out small. You build these different recombinant GNAs and different things in these bacteria so you can see how it will work as we go up in the scale or as we move up with respect to different types of cancers. I came to appreciate it a lot more, and I know that's something that we tend to do a lot of. We don't appreciate the process. We don't really take everything into consideration when we're going through it, which is not cool. Sometimes, you guys, we just need to just trust the process. And no matter what, you must always, always trust the process. That was what I did my first year, well, my first year of undergraduate. I did some research there, and then I also did some research my second year. I was able to do research with mice model or, yeah, mice model. And we were looking at the cervix and, you know, the ripening of the cervix and what goes into that, which was really cool because I had family members that had lost children and had miscarriages because their cervix was compromised. So it was cool to see what was exactly happening in the mice model and then how that can translate into the human model. So did some research. I also joined a group that we had. It was called NAPS, the National Association for the Prevention of Starvation. So we, NAPS would go to different countries and just different disaster-ridden areas and, you know, provide relief and care for those different areas. They did a lot in India and Africa and even South America, which was cool. I was necessarily able to go to the, you know, international things, but I did go to a few of the domestic service projects. So that was actually a great experience. And that, I believe, also helped greatly in terms of my extracurricular and the thing that set me apart. So I did that. I did NAPS for about two years and I did summer research. And then also we had research at our school. And so I did research with respect to the school there. So those were like the main things that I did while in undergrad to help me prepare for PA school. But then once I got into kind of like the workforce, I just geared everything towards healthcare. So I was a clinical scheduler, meaning that I set up all the appointments for my O, O, you know, like all of the O occupational therapists or the OTs, the DPTs, the social workers, the nurses, the LPNs, the CNAs. We had a home health based company and we were able to send them out to the different clients that needed help, whatever it is that they needed per the nurse in the physician's orders. We sent that out. So I did a lot of that talking to clients in hospitals and things of that nature. And I was able to get in with an urgent care where I was able to be a PSR, patient services representative with that urgent care facility, which was really cool. I got to see a lot there. Just got to know a lot about how the whole healthcare insurance system works. It was interesting. It was definitely interesting. I went along with that and did my CNA because I wanted to transition from being a PSR to being an MA at that facility. So I went and I did my CNA and I had a pretty good time doing that. It was actually a good experience. And prior to all of that, I was a home health aide for an elderly gentleman that was pre-parking sins and he had just had a hip and knee replacement as well. So I helped him with his OT stuff and his bathing and toileting and all of that. So those were all, I think everything in a combination is what helped me just be a really good candidate for PA school. I know now a lot of PA schools are looking for your hands-on patient care experience. Things like scribes and PSRs, which is what I did where I was just entering information, isn't necessarily as appealing as somebody who's actually dealing directly with the patient. So if you do want to just be a little bit more, like a little bit more, that's the one that I want. I think you should definitely go ahead and look at becoming an MA or an EMT or even a firefighter. We do have a lot of firefighters, a good amount of them in trying to become PAs. So even those professions will help you tremendously like look really good because they're professions that you're seeing, you know, the use of these medications and how to deal with like critically ill people on a consistent basis. So hopefully that helps you guys. That's what I did. Definitely do your research on what will work best for you, what profession or like bridge profession will just suit your personality the best and I'm sure you guys will make it. You guys will be good practitioners, you just have to really want it. Thank you guys so much for watching. Thank you guys so much for asking for this and again if you have any other questions that you want me to answer, shoot me an email or leave it in the comments section below and I will be sure to give back to it. Thank you guys. I will see you guys later. Bye.