Medical student of the month, November 2024

Currey Zalman

Name: Currey Zalman

Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska

Class of: 2025

Education:

  • Lincoln East High School
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Hobbies:     

  • Traveling. 
  • Intramural/rec sports.
  • Golf.
  • Pub trivia (Carried by teammates who know way more than me).
  • Crochet (First scarf was a failure, but learned from my mistakes and am making a blanket now).
  • Cooking (soup season).
  • More golf!

What do you do to stay balanced?  

Usually drop into an athletic stance – feet shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent, core engaged.

In a figurative sense, I stay balanced by making sure to prioritize spending time with friends and family – the people who keep me grounded and remind me what’s really important when life gets a little busy.

Three things people may not know about me:  

  • I am very good at random video games. I once beat “Through the Fire and Flames” on Expert in Guitar Hero 3, and at one point had a top 200 score all time on Doodle Jump. 
  • My go-to karaoke song is “Tennessee Whiskey” by Chris Stapleton. 
  • I can stack a large number of quarters on my elbow and snap my hand down and catch all of them. It’s called “coin snatching.”