Bridge Builder: How I navigated my first year as a laboratory scientist during a pandemic.

"Growing up I always wanted to be someone's hero, as most of us do, right? Everything I did, and even my career path, had to make sense and be somehow impactful to my community and to others. Because of this, I entered this career very "green." I graduated the Coronavirus Class of Spring 2020 from the University of Louisiana Monroe where our graduation was canceled/postponed three times before it finally took place (with restrictions) in April of this year. The robbed experience of fully celebrating all that I had accomplished scholastically only helped fuel my eagerness and impatience to finally join the "healthcare hero" team."

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