Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. I am applying for this scholarship to help with my books and tuition at Wright State University. I hope to lessen the burden of financial assistance my parents will have to provide for college. I hope to one day give back all of the kindness our family has received over the years to other families in my journey of becoming Pediatric Oncology Nurse.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others. The “human touch” has several different meanings to me. I know my brother wouldn’t have had such a positive experience at the hospital fighting Burkitt’s Lymphoma without several nurses going out of their way to make him feel special. In the veterinary world the phrase meant helping out owners to understand their diagnosis or checking on them several days later to see if everything was going ok. I think human touch means to help each person how I would want to be helped in that situation. I look forward to putting my “human touch” on every medical case I am involved in.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor or the intervention specialist and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.

Honestly, I was struggling and everyone I asked told me to write about something that was a big part of my life, but I felt that the biggest story I have is how something that affected my life has also shaped my future. I was in fifth grade when my older brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was only a freshman at the time and many people do not realize the impact that a diagnosis like that has on the entire family. I remember the first day I went back to school after finding out that he had cancer, everyone stared at me and kids even asked me if my brother was going to die. As a elementary schooler, I would spend most of my day with my guidance counselor (Mrs. Elliott) or the intervention specialist (Mrs. Sines) and I would eat lunch every day in there room or just have a safe space to decompress. From that young age, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety were part of my everyday life. I had to figure out how to manage the cyclone of emotions that were going on both within me and in my immediate family. Looking back, I recognize that I stumbled through my emotions but that over the years, the feelings I saw as negatives, became a whetstone. The fear made me strong, the uncertainty created resilience, and the anxiety enabled me to handle whatever comes my way. From an early age I knew I wanted to work in the medical field, but I was not completely sure what I wanted to do. After going to some of his doctors’ appointments and seeing the way cancer permeates families and creates brokenness, I knew I wanted to go into pediatrics. My brother told me that the scariest parts were the necessary surgeries and how the nurses were a constant support system while he was at the hospital. It was the well-trained and always reassuring nurses who made the surgeries not as scary. As a young girl, witnessing the impact a nurse has in a scared, unknowing child’s life was how my brother’s cancer created the path I want to walk. Over the past four years I have raised monetary donations with our students, school community and my livestock community to support several groups dear to my heart. My favorite project is making blankets for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with my FFA chapter who helped me donate over 250 blankets. The community has also helped to feed over 800 students with fruit in multiple counties. Finally, with the community’s help I was able to ship 5 boxes with 50 pounds of items to help North Carolina people affected by the Hurricane this year. I would not be the person I am today without the life challenges I have faced and how my Fairbanks and livestock communities have helped me rise to the challenge of supporting others.