 I think it's pretty incredible that the SWAD has been running for 50 years now by students. So UVM Rescue is a group of UVM undergraduate students that basically run an entire ambulance service by themselves 365 days a year, 7 days a week. There's always students on the ambulance but then even behind the scenes. The people that are doing the billing, the people that are making sure the ambulance is staffed, the people that are having communications with higher up people at the university. The people who are organizing our trainings are all students as well. It's a really unique experience. And UVM Rescue kind of takes you under their wing and puts you through all of it. It showed me that I really enjoy being there for people when they are struggling. It showed me that I really enjoy challenging myself and putting myself into challenging situations and learning from those. When you get dispatched to something that's a little bit more intense like say like a cardiac arrest or a big car accident on I-89, you know, being able to control your emotions. You know, obviously you're going to have some adrenaline pumping but being able to take a deep breath or step back for a second. Being like, you know, I'm still going to drive the ambulance safe, treat this patient appropriately and calmly and making sure like the appropriate things are getting done. So just kind of a sense of composure is another big thing that I've learned. There's so much that it gives back to us. Our motto for the last 50 years has been Pride Service Commitment which is something we really take to heart and we kind of ingrain in people from the moment they join us. I feel a lot of pride working for UVM Rescue because we take so much care in making sure everything we do is done well and that everyone who goes through our program has the knowledge, skills and capacity to do the job right and to the best of our ability. Once I started learning more about UVM Rescue, I realized like, wow, like you're really getting out of your comfort zone here and just experiencing new things, things that not many college students can actually experience. I think for me personally it has helped a lot with just my confidence in talking to patients in particular. It's made me kind of chase being uncomfortable and pushing my limits more. Also being okay with failure and just being okay with struggling. Being able to see people when they're in a really tough situation and help them like mentally or like physically with like if they're having like a medical emergency or a mental health emergency and being able to talk to them and you know kind of hopefully change their life in a good way. The friendships and the relationships that I've made over the last four years are ones that I will never forget. I'm going to be working in the ICU at UVM after I graduate and I think working here has given me the confidence to say I want to take on that challenge because it's definitely going to be a challenge but it's given me the confidence to say I can do this.