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MONSTER MODULES

Monthly Community Service Hours Completed: October 0 hours Cumulative Fall Semester Hours Completed: 1.5 hours      October, a month filled with candy, pumpkins, and fright. Often having a stomach ache from snacking on way too many ghost-shaped peanut butter cups, your arm getting sore after carving the biggest pumpkin you could find, and feeling your heart race while watching that classic Halloween horror film. So many “feels” accompany this season and after completing the neuromuscular, autonomic nervous system, and cardiovascular pharmacology modules, I feel as though I have a better understanding of what I am experiencing and how my body responds to the “spooky season” environment.         This month’s course load was heavy considering the complexity of each module; however, beginning with muscle and progressing through to cardiac conduction, it laid a good foundation that ended with the full understanding of the processes that allow our bodies to relax and eat candy or run from th