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The Academic Affairs Committee hosted a Pre-Med & Health Professions Advising event presented by Wendy Loughlin. Wendy is the Director of the Health Professions Advising Office, and gave an insight overview on how to prepare for the medical school application process. She discussed what makes a competitive applicant, questions about the new MCAT, and mostly importantly the significance of patient empathy. Wendy specifically talked about Maryland’s medical school and their push for patient interaction as well as unique and diverse experiences.
Students were full of curiosity and questions to which Wendy provided detailed and informative answers for. Everyone that attended also received super awesome syringe pens to prepare for their medical futures!
The Student Activities Committee hosted its annual Fall Food Olympics were held on November 15th in front of Ellicott Hall. As tradition entails, two students pair up to compete in an obstacle course involving food: this year's challenges included feeding pudding while blindfolded, eating apple slices while crab-walking, and balancing candy corn while doing a three-legged race. With our previous 3-year champions graduated and gone, new challengers were eager to win the title and our grand prize: Gems Formal tickets! Sophomores Zeke Gonzalez and Yvette Mann stepped up and snatched away those tickets – congratulations to this duo for becoming the 2013 Fall Food Olympics Champions! Come back next fall and see if they'll maintain their title and prowess – for now, let's get ready for Gems Formal 2013!
The Gemstone Student Council enhanced their monthly GBM this month with the
first annual Gemsgiving! Students brought food to contribute to the potluck ranging from pizza to baked chicken. Though all members of GSC brought food to the event, the other generous students who brought food were entered into a raffle for an amazon gift card. Additionally, GSC surprised everyone with
three other gift cards hidden under chairs.
As for the GBM, each cohort shared recent events and milestones in their
Gemstone process. Turnout was one of the
greatest all year second only to the first GBM! 
The Community Engagement Committee hosted Gemstone’s First
SHABAM. SHABAM stands for Shabbat Across
Maryland, and is an annual Friday night dinner provided by the Maryland Hillel,
made possible by donations from the Gorlin family. Gemstone’s SHABAM was one of 75 meals across
campus feeding over 1,000 UMD students. Some students came for the free food and others to learn a little about what Shabbat is all about, but everyone got the chance to have a sit down dinner together in the Gemstone suite. Junior Steph Gross and senior Jenn Rottenberg explained some of the customary practices that are done before a typical Shabbat friday night dinner, reciting customary prayers in Hebrew before explaining their English meaning and significance. SHABAM
was one of the first events of CEC’s goal to provide the Gemstone community with first
hand experiences of different cultures that represent the diverse program.
We cannot wait to see you at Gems Formal 2013!
-Alexa Cohen: Team HAPTIC : Class of 2016
-Edward Lin: Team AWE: Class of 2015
-Tom Schmitt: Class of 2017
-Shivani Patel: Team BASS: Class of 2015
-Shivani Patel: Team BASS: Class of 2015
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