Daisy Letendre

I wasn’t much of a science person when I came to NMH, but now I want to make it my life. I think I took every science class NMH offers, but the one that really made it for me was Human Physiology. It was taught by a physician’s assistant, someone with great real-world experience. But it was also just different and upbeat and interesting. We dissected sheep brains and sheep hearts. That was cool, but then we did bovine eyeballs. I knew cows had huge eyes, but these were the size of fists. It was nuts. But it made it easy to get inside and see everything. For example, down in the middle of the eye, there was an actual lens that looked like glass or plastic. It was a wonderful way to cement what we’d read and discussed in class.

Experiences like that made me fall in love with science and helped me get an internship at a hospital. I spent seven weeks there, partly in the cardio-pulmonary department. I got to scrub into the OR and watch an angioplasty, an angioscope, and other procedures. I loved it and now I want to be a cardiologist.

Daisy graduated in 2009 and attends Trinity College.