Today was my last day getting to work with Mercy. I finished my project and said my good-byes and thank-yous to all of the incredible people that I got to meet over the course of this internship. This experience has given me so much to think about, and so much to look forward to. Something tells me that I won't ever enjoy a school project as much as I did this one again, because I don't think it's legal to operate on people at school. I think that my favorite part of this internship was getting to observe surgery, especially the total knee replacements. The good thing is that now I have something that I can talk passionately about because I so genuinely connected with it. I was so privileged to have all of my mentors show me what they did on a day-to-day basis. They're obvious love of their careers was so inspiring to me, especially when they worked continuously throughout the day and week, with no break. At the end of the day, I was exhausted, and I wasn't even doing anything! I cannot wait to be able to experience something like this again, because it truly was life-changing.
