We're a team here when everybody succeeds we the whole team succeeds We have students from Hispaniola that I never even thought about is you know coming from here being that it's the dominican republic and Haiti at the same time which you have a culture that's mixed and you get a chance to just understand different things about different people and how how they lived how they got here and it kind of helps motivate you and understand that your story is just as important as the next person's story. Myself I came from prior service as a lab tech where I kind of just worked in the lab but i've met people who have gone to nepal and spent years there living amongst the people there and really speaking the language and getting a chance to really understand the cultures and what they learned there they bring back and I learn it helps me to be more empathetic for patients that i don't understand or cultures I don't understand.

HARPER: Everybody here has a different walk of life that they came from. It's a really driven group of people so everyone's you know working very hard and also having a lot of fun.

It's a really welcoming place and I’ve made a lot of really awesome friends and it really does kind of have that kind of like home feeling with all of our classmates and we hang out in the student lounge, and we study together in the library and definitely a very like community feel.

BURNHAM: when I think about what it means to be a student at USU it comes back to this idea of like a shared purpose and a shared mission.

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