{"id":54046,"date":"2015-10-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/28\/com-student-of-the-month-meet-laura-zima\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T05:00:00","slug":"com-student-of-the-month-meet-laura-zima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/28\/com-student-of-the-month-meet-laura-zima\/","title":{"rendered":"COM Student of the Month &#8211; Meet Laura Zima"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>\n<strong><em>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Each month, InterCOM will highlight a &#8220;Student of the Month&#8221; from the College of Medicine. Students will be featured for their participation in activities outside of medical school and for making a difference in the community. The goal is to recognize students for what they are doing and to encourage other students to get involved in the community. After all, medical school should be much more than studying. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Personal:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nName: Laura Zima<\/p>\n<p>\nHometown: Originally from Granville, Ohio<\/p>\n<p>\nProgram\/Year: College of Medicine\/M1 (I&#8217;ve almost survived anatomy.)<\/p>\n<p>\nEducation: \u00a0Psychology major, Occidental College in Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nI am just starting to find the activities I want to join, so far I am a member of AMWA (American Medical Women&#8217;s Association), Empower, the psychiatry interest group, and the neurology interest group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nI love to exercise, especially yoga, and play with my cat.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Staying Balanced:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nIf something&#8217;s important to me I make sure to make time for it. Although medical school has been an adjustment from college, I always make time to exercise and spend time with family and friends. I really believe doing those things for myself helps me be a better student and someday a better physician.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>List three things people may not know about you:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve driven across the country five times.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Friends&#8221; is my favorite TV show.<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m terrified of bugs.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"Zrr jwVUL SUrPaFksq rJfn\"><!-- Zrr jwVUL SUrPaFksq rJfn --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Zima is a first-year medical student from Granville, Ohio, who graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":54047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","department-intercom","department-office-of-community-engagement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COM Student of the Month - Meet Laura Zima<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Laura Zima is a first-year medical student from Granville, Ohio, who graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/28\/com-student-of-the-month-meet-laura-zima\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COM Student of the Month - Meet Laura Zima\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Laura Zima is a first-year medical student from Granville, Ohio, who graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/28\/com-student-of-the-month-meet-laura-zima\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-10-28T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Laura_Zima.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"705\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tom O&#039;Connor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tom O&#039;Connor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/28\/com-student-of-the-month-meet-laura-zima\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/28\/com-student-of-the-month-meet-laura-zima\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tom O'Connor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/8171e6fec87d2b600ff48511fa418536\"},\"headline\":\"COM Student of the Month &#8211; 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