 Hello, my name is Key. I'm from Burlington, Vermont. I'm a junior in the College of Nursing and Health Science, with a major in Nursing and a minor in Healthy Behavioral Change Studies from the College of Medicine. I also have a classroom where I spend a large portion of my time, around 20 to 25 hours a week, working as a nurse assistant downtown in one of our nursing homes. And my name is Jamie. I'm a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. I'm from Waterbury, Vermont. I'm pursuing an individually designed major in Health Care Structure and Emergency Medical Services Research with a minor in Biochemistry. I've been interested in medicine for a really long time, and UVMs allowed me to explore that, both in and out of the classroom. So right now, we're outside the Data Medical Library, which is one of the academic libraries on campus. This one has a lot of resources that are available for medical students and undergraduate students to learn about anything that's related to their health sciences curriculum. I spend a lot of time here during finals. They have study rooms available, and it's really just a great focused study area. You see a lot of nursing students in this medical library, because this is where we get to see a lot of literature around research on human body, as well as disease and all the pathophysiologies. So some advice that I would give to a prospective student who's interested in health care and is looking at the University of Vermont. I would say that you should definitely pursue it, and if you're thinking, well, I like health care, I want to get more experience, I want to learn more, but I'm also interested in philosophy or English or any other field, you can do both. It's a both and situation. I came into UVM really expecting that health care was the only thing I wanted to learn about. But through my course of studies, I found that it's some of the classes that are outside of that field that have added the most depth and have been really fascinating to me. And I'm wishing as a senior that I had been a double major in Mandarin Chinese and my independent study. So coming into UVM and wherever you decide to go to college, I would say, look broadly and really think about what you want to use your time here for. About clinical rotation, every nursing student here at UVM is guaranteed for a spot in the University of Vermont Medical Center. And you don't have to apply separately to be part of the clinical rotation. When it's time for you to do your clinical rotation in junior year, the school will automatically send you to the University of Vermont Medical Center to have your clinical done in there. And also a great thing about having a medical center right on the campus is that if you feel like you want more experience, you want more time to shadow, more time to get your clinical practice done, you can definitely request to have an extra hour just to go shadow physician, shadow nurses, or any people who work in the University of Vermont Medical Center. You want to go into nursing and you want to become a nurse practitioner. You can also shadow that person, see their real experience, daily activities and things like that. That's also a great way to help you figure out what do you want to do and what would fit you the best. So as you can see right over there, that's the Rowell Building, the home of the College of Nursing and Health Science. Right next to me right here, this is the College of Medicine. And just right behind me over there to that great building, that's the UVM Medical Center, the Level One Trauma Medical Center, largest one north of Boston. So everything is one in one complex. This is where a nursing student as well as any other student in the College of Nursing and Health Science would do their clinical, this simulation lab just to study. So during the simulation lab, you would learn about what you would do, how you should react to the patient, what question you should ask patient, as well as the skill that you need to do. So as a junior, before I got to touch a real patient in the hospital, I would have to take some introduction to clinical classes, like health assessment, introduction to clinical practice. My first clinical rotation right now is a woman and newborn. So I get to go to the Labor and Delivery Unit, postpartum unit and NICU, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I get to see a wide range of care for women and newborns and it was such a great experience for me. And I love it. I get to see a birth. I got to help assisting a birth and also get to take care for a postpartum patient who just had their baby. My culture, the Vietnamese culture is quite strict about who can see a birth, especially for a male-identified person like me. It's really hard to know more about the birth process as well, pregnancy as well as the seeing or helping to leave her birth. I never got the chance before. During high school, I thought I wanted to become a dentist. All for you high school, I study biochemistry, biology courses, try my best just to be prepared for the dental path. So I plan on the way through until the end of my third semester of a senior year. I had an opportunity to perform as one of our nursing home in our area. It's called the Wake Robin Nursing Facility. And at the end of my recital hall, there was a lady, a resident who lived there. She approached me with tears in her eyes and she came to me and held my hand really tight. And she told me that she had a male nurse before who has a very similar voice to mine. And also, he sang for her when he did the care for her. And she just asked me if I would ever become a nurse. So that was the first time ever in my life that I really considered to become a nurse. It's like a spark in my head about the idea. After the performance, I just went back home and I did a lot of research about nursing school, nursing career, the future path in nursing field. And I came to the realization that this is the one for me. And I called the University of Vermont admission at the time I already submitted my application because I did early action. So I called them and said, please switch my application to nursing and did it. And very fortunate I got accepted. So here I am as a nursing student.