{"id":54912,"date":"2016-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/02\/18\/com-student-of-the-month-meet-sasha-kapil\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T06:00:00","slug":"com-student-of-the-month-meet-sasha-kapil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/02\/18\/com-student-of-the-month-meet-sasha-kapil\/","title":{"rendered":"COM Student of the Month &#8211; Meet Sasha Kapil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>\n<strong><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Each month, InterCOM will highlight a &quot;Student of the Month&quot; 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. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Name<\/strong>: Sasha Kapil<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Hometown<\/strong>: Manhattan, Kansas<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Program\/Year<\/strong>: COM &#8211; M2<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Education<\/strong>: Biological sciences major &#8211; University of Nebraska- Lincoln&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Activities<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\nAging and Integrated Medicine (AIMS) program<\/p>\n<p>\nDecreasing the Donor Deficit<\/p>\n<p>\nPhi Rho Sigma<\/p>\n<p>\nAging Interest Group<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Staying Balanced<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\nI don&#039;t! Joking, of course. Luckily, I have wonderful friends and family that make it very easy to put the books aside and spend time with them instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Three things people don&#039;t know about me:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nI grew up on a street named&nbsp;Little Kitten Ave.<\/p>\n<p>\nI love all board games except Monopoly. Monopoly destroys friendships.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;I recently found out that&nbsp;Good Vibrations by Marky Mark and the Funky bunch was the number one song on the day I was born. 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