 Hi, my name is Megan DeVito and I'm a Dietetics Nutrition and Food Science major. Next year I'll be studying at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland as a Dietetic Intern. This internship essentially gives me the clinical and research hours I need to pass my registered dietitian exam and to become a registered dietitian. This program was extraordinarily difficult to get into as it only has a 6% acceptance rate. The program played an extraordinarily large piece, I think, in my acceptance to this program, primarily because I wrote an Honors College thesis mentored by Dr. Gene Harvey Barino, who not only is a goddess in the nutrition world, but the grant that funded my study was an NIH grant, so I plugged that into my application letter, milked it for all it was worth. Gene was absolutely phenomenal in this process as she re-read my application materials over and over again with me. She wrote one of my letters of recommendation and I think it played a really big role in me getting this internship and I'm very excited to, I'm sad to leave Burlington but I'm very excited to move on and go to D.C. and finish up my education and become a registered dietitian.