-: I have been blessed to have some dynamic mentors
and most of them were here at Millersville,
and it's interesting because in my mind,
I always knew that I would become a doctor,
but I thought it would be a medical doctor,
and then I had a little taste of the biology department,
it was like, yeah, no, this is not gonna work for me,
but I connected myself with doctors here at the college,
and you know, sad to say, I didn't know
that there were other types of doctors
until I got here and met a doctor, Rita Smith-Wadell,
and she didn't have a stethoscope or lab coat, right?
And she challenged me, and she opened up this Pandora's box
called education, for me.
She opened up this Pandora's box of passion and purpose
and change and all this other good stuff,
so Millersville connecting me with someone
who has forever impacted my life
and changed the trajectory of who I am
and who I'm becoming, cause we're ever evolving,
and who I've become under her tutelage, so.