MCGC Laboratory
Exciting news! This semester, I am mentoring in the lab at Mount Carmel’s new Grove City location with their Director of Laboratory Operations, Melissa Rumohr. The hospital is still under construction, so right now it is only open as an emergency department. The lab is brand new, and they are in the process of getting everything set up for when they start taking patients this spring. I have only mentored two days so far, and it is already very different from my experience last semester. When I was at the preschool, I was mostly interacting with the students, and I have worked with children before when volunteering. This semester, everyone I am working with is older than me, and I don’t already have experience being in a lab. Everything is new to me, and I often don’t understand what the people in the lab are talking about, but I hope that by the end of this semester I will at least have some idea of what they are saying. When I first met my mentor, she said that I might be able to run some tests of my own. They would be on fake samples, of course, but I am excited to be able to use some of the equipment in the lab. This is something I never would have been able to do if it hadn’t been for the Career Mentorship Program. Since the career field I am interested in is specific and unique, without this opportunity it would be hard for me to gain this kind of first hand experience that I am looking for in order to decide if this is really a path I want to follow. Overall, I am looking forward to everything about this new semester. Even though I enjoyed my time at the preschool, I am excited to be able to jump into something I am really interested in. Also, despite the fact that it took an entire semester to find this placement for me, which was a bit frustrating at times, I can now say that it was definitely worth the wait.
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