Mary Page Martin a St. Luke's Alumni, who got her undergraduate degree from Auburn. She is from the second graduating class of St. Luke's and during her time in the Bio-Med program she shadowed Physical Therapy, but through the sound of crackle bones of the elderly she decided that that field wasn't for her. This pushed her toward the field of pharmacy which in her youthful naivete she identified as "cut and dry" She gave advice on what she learned such as that early assurance plans into graduate school are binding. She said the most important things to getting into pharmacy school are the PCAT, GPA, and complete the required courses. The application for pharmacy school is also on pharmcy.org. At this point she started talking a little above our level and I was confused. It was about the specific rotations and the different types of pharmacy. Essentially there are community and medicine rotations, and the other types of pharmacy are chain, hospital, infusion, and compounding. She makes several light, yet important notes like, pharmacist don't have prescribing rights meaning the general physician has to prescribe the drug then the pharmacist gives it, also that the only Auburn and Samford have pharmacy schools in Alabama. Overall, she definitely wasn't the worst speaker, what she really did well was getting the audience to feel comfortable, but still pay attention. In her presence I even asked what feels like the first real question I've asked this year. Pharmacy probably isn't the path for me, but she said, "find a path that works for you, and achieve a goal" so students like me didn't feel excluded. She was useful and enjoyable in only a way that a wildcat can be!!
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