>> So the first school that I went to in 1988 was the Community College
of Philadelphia where I got my associates.
So I'm a transfer student at Temple.
I actually got my nursing degree after school, started working at Temple, and as a benefit,
they allowed us to come to school.
That wasn't the only reason I chose Temple, because they would have paid
if we went to a different school as well.
But I liked Temple's diversity.
I love the idea that they have so many different campuses that you can go to.
I went to main campus.
I went to the health sciences campus, I went to Ambler for my classes.
So I went to Temple and I chose it for it's so welcoming
to nontraditional students like myself, adult students.
And they're so welcoming to the world.
I could meet absolutely anybody from any point on the globe here at Temple.
And I love that about this.
And they're a great academic program.
So yeah that's why I chose Temple.
During when I was in nursing school at Community they had job fairs at that time.
So this was 1988, so at the time there was a nursing shortage.
So they had recruiters heavily looking at all of the graduates.
And I came even before I finished my final exams for a job fair down and it was really nice.
They were wonderful.
The people were so nice, it was the only place I ever looked at.
I went straight from nursing school to Temple Hospital and I've been there, 26 years later.