After the initial losses, another realization comes: To feel the sun's warmth again, I would have to learn to accept this overwhelming force occupying my body… I allowed myself to focus on what I was gaining — knowledge. I was given an opportunity to peek inside the career I aspire to enter. The amount of medical knowledge you acquire [from feeling] the medicine first-hand, you cannot learn in academia.

MUNIRA

I managed to distract myself from everything I had to endure through science. Now, I have grown to understand how this... has paved my path forward. The MRI scanner that initially found my tumor... [was] the result of engineering. The hospital bed that helped me sit up and down and could roll out of the room as needed was the result of engineering. This has helped guide me to the path I've chosen today, as I hope to pursue engineering in order to keep helping to improve lives everywhere.

JAMESON

Going to college can be difficult when you don't know what you want to study. Blood cancer has taught me exactly what I want to do in my life. I have had so many amazing nurses throughout my hospital stays and clinic visits. I want to be like them: a Pediatric Oncology Nurse. Being able to work with children and tell them, 'I know how you feel, I used to be you,' [will] be so rewarding.

SYDNEY