"I just love 'War Eagle moments,'" she said. "There are so many things I remember fondly about my time at Auburn, like the movies in Langdon Hall, going to The Flush, and the friends I made are like my family now. We are one big Auburn Family."
Although she harbors many fond memories from her days in school at Auburn, the road to graduation was rough for Jenkins. During her first week of college, she lost her mother to breast cancer. A few months later, her father was deployed with Operation
Desert Storm.
"I was in chemical engineering at the time, and I stuck out the semester. It was a very difficult time. I had also gone to a predominantly black high school, and it was a big adjustment coming to Auburn where suddenly I was a minority," Jenkins said. "Family, friends, and prayer are what got me through that first year."
During her sophomore year, she changed majors and became a chemistry student in COSAM.
"I realized one day I did not want to be an engineer, but I didn't want to lose all of the credits I had accumulated, so I began studying biochemistry," she said.
Jenkins' degree in chemistry has served her well in her career, and she is currently a primary care professional with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals. As such, she provides primary care physicians from Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi with medications used to treat patients suffering from cardiac or respiratory illness.
"I have sold drugs for every part of the body at some point, and I learned plenty about anatomy and physiology at Auburn, which helps," said Jenkins. "A lot of people in my field have degrees in business or marketing. When we are in training, it can get very scientific, which comes more easily for me since I have a background in chemistry."
Jenkins says the background in science is only part of why she appreciates her Auburn education.
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