Leaders for Tomorrow scholarship recipient Jennifer Zhang (’25) was recently featured in the University of Pennsylvania’s Career Services Summer Funding series. Jennifer, who is originally from Atlanta, GA, is pursuing a degree in Nursing and spent this past summer at Mount Sinai Hospital’s Medical Intensive Care Unit at the hospital’s main campus in New York City’s Upper East Side.
Jennifer shares, “As someone who always seeks growth and challenges, this was by far the most intensive and rigorous job experience I’ve ever had. From a series of back-to-back code calls and unexpected deaths to emergency tracheostomies, I’ve seen people survive and unfortunately pass from sepsis, an inability to breathe, and a variety of other causes of death.
It was a humbling experience. Each and every day when I clocked out of work, I was grateful to just be a healthy human who can eat and breathe on my own.
Whenever I share my experience and job description with others, I always get the same response: that must be so sad; you’re doing a tough job/God’s work.
But “sad” is the last thing I could ever describe it as because I feel like this career path and the learning takeaways from this past summer has redefined me and my values I take on for living. I know what it means to be thankful and utterly appreciative of what is right in front of me.”
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