Feeling dread about the work week ahead? Join us for an hour and a half for cathartic workshops designed to help alleviate the anxiety and uncertainty of these times. Sunday Scaries is a new Blue Stoop series of free programming by Zoom held once a month on Sundays from noon to 1:30 pm. The sessions are designed to counteract the "Sunday scaries," a form of anticipatory anxiety and feelings of nervousness and dread about the week ahead (and we've had quite strange weeks so far in 2021).

For March’s Sunday Scaries: Who determines illness? Is it the individual or the society around them? In this workshop, we want to explore personal and communal experiences of illness and the influences around us that determine its place in our identities and the identities of the people we encounter in our lives.

Arbor Vitae aims to showcase the extraordinary height of talent and depth of introspection that exists in our community of students, residents, and faculty at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Arbor Vitae creates a variety of avenues for creative expression and engagement within the RWJMS community, including publishing a blog for students to post their independent writing and artwork, running a book club, organizing creative writing workshops, and facilitating an elective to teach students about narrative medicine. With each event, we hope to provide our community with a way to process and delve into the complexities of life, both inside and outside of the clinic.

Adrian graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 with a BA in Biological Basis of Behavior and a minor in Classical Studies. She is currently a first year medical student at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. When she’s not doing schoolwork, she can be found knitting, reading, playing board games, or picking up a new hobby.