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SANDY TING: Everything about
UVA that I thought it might be,

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now that I'm here, has proven
to be true, except better.

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The support of the faculty
really is unmatched.

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Hi, everyone.

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My name is Sandy Ting, and I
am a first-year CNL student.

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My journey to nursing feels
like throwing darts at a map.

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I was born in Taiwan,
where I lived as a child.

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For the past 18
years, I have been

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a special ed teacher and
a learning specialist,

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first in New York City
and then in Richmond.

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For me, career changing
and being back in school,

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it definitely comes
with challenges--

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logistical, emotional.

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And being a child
immigrant, it makes

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me not only want to explore
the world around me.

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It makes me want to
contribute to it.

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SABRINA MUNRO: Hi, my
name is Sabrina Munro.

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I'm a second-year CNL student.

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I was really interested
in the CNL program because

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of the affordability
and the location

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and the caliber of
professors and then

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the range of different
clinical sites

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that we could have as students.

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That was definitely
appealing to me

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as somebody who
lives in Richmond.

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I found out how
good of a program

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it really is, especially
for second degree students.

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I'm really glad I chose it.

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It has turned out to be the
best thing I've ever done.

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I did my undergraduate education
at University of Richmond.

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I majored in biology.

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I was originally pre-med,
but I decided early on

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that I would rather
go to nursing school.

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I appreciated more
of the hands-on work

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that nurses got to do.

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And I liked being in
the thick of things,

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and that's where
the nurses were.

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So I got my CNA
certification when I was 19.

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I saved up my money to get
that done and then moved

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on to working full time for
the State Perinatal Quality

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Collaborative, and I love it.

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And it's what I want to
go into when I'm a nurse.

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I would love to be a NICU nurse
and continue helping babies.

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My favorite part of the program
is how small the cohort is.

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We've all gotten really
close, and we're all

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able to study together.

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It's definitely made the
accelerated part of the program

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more manageable because we are
all second degree students,

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and we do all have adult lives
going on outside of the program.

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But it's been really helpful
to know that we're all in this

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together.

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SAMUEL DAANE: Hi, my
name is Sam Daane.

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I'm a first-year CNL student,
and my journey on this path

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has been an interesting one.

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When I graduated
with my undergrad,

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I was a pre-med student.

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I knew I didn't exactly
want to be a doctor,

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but I didn't know
exactly what I wanted

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to do in the medical field.

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What I did know at
that time is that I

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wanted to enter the military,
and I spent the next 12 years

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of my life in the Air Force,
space systems operations officer

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specializing in missile defense.

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And I loved my military career.

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And when that ended, I worked
for a corporate company

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for about seven years and
realized that I did not

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like that at all.

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And so I stepped away from
that and worked independently

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for a little while.

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And upon that time, while I
was working independently,

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I was volunteering quite a
bit at Loaves and Fishes Food

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Pantry.

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A friend of mine, who
had been working there,

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they needed some help
and asked if I would be

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able to work for a little bit.

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And what was supposed to
be a part-time help-out job

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with the food pantry
very quickly turned

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into a full-time job.

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And I was brought on as
the director of operations.

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I did that for several years
and absolutely loved it.

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But I also knew that there was
more, that I could do more,

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and that I had to
serve in another way.

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And then I just decided a couple
of years ago, I need to do this.

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I need to jump all in.

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And so here I am,
back in school.

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I do have three
children, and what's

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great is I can do this
program and still be a father,

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be present with my family.

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And it's never too late
and that you can do more

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for yourself and for others.

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SANDY TING:
Struggling through it

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is actually part of
the learning process.

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There's something very
humbling about it,

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and there's something
about it that

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also does a huge honor to the
patients that we will serve.

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SABRINA MUNRO: The program shows
us different areas of nursing

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that we might not have known
about before we started school.

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And it gives us the
tools to not only

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be nurses but to
continue to open

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those doors for ourselves
as we move forward

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in our nursing careers.

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SAMUEL DAANE: Being an older
student, I was worried.

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Coming back to school, it
was a little frightening.

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I've been very blessed
and surprised by how

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supportive everybody has been.

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And to know that
I'm not alone, there

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are other older students as well
that are doing this in addition

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to me.

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SANDY TING: The best part
about being in this program

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is how much we have been
given the tools to win.

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