This past semester has been a really great transition back to life at Tufts following a semester studying in Cape Town last spring. I started working on my senior honors thesis studying the perceptions and experiences of clinicians who petitioned for patients with substance use disorders to be committed to involuntary treatment as permitted by Massachusetts law. It has been a really valuable learning experience to go through the process of designing a study, getting approval and conducting interviews with participants. I will be continuing to work on this project in the spring and will present my findings a few weeks before graduation. I also spent my time interning in a research lab run by a Tufts professor, and I worked on a study interested in helping kidney-disease patients make informed decisions on whether or not to go on dialysis. I loved reading through the interview transcripts of both kidney-disease patients and nephrologists and seeing both of their perspectives on the trajectory of disease and when it is optimal to share challenging information such as prognosis. I was mostly working on data analysis for this project and I really enjoyed learning how qualitative research gets transformed from transcripts to specific findings. When I wasn’t studying I spent many weekends hiking in the White Mountains. I have been working on completing all 48 4,000 footers over the course of my time at Tufts and this semester I was able to get number 46! I am forever grateful to MVYouth for giving me a college experience that has allowed me to grow and challenged me in ways that gave me a clearer sense of who I am. It will be bittersweet to say goodbye to Tufts in May and I will cherish all of it for my last semester. Thank you MVYouth!