The road to gaining a white coat is a challenging feat for anyone. Rosie was no exception. She juggled 4 jobs through her undergraduate career, did not have the financial resources of her fellow students to take MCAT Prep courses or guided mentorship, and above all after 3 years of strategically planning her financial resources and application timeline, faced the unexpected significant impact of her scheduled MCAT exam being the first of the pandemic to be cancelled. She faced these challenges with grace and resilience. However, in July 2021 she was told resilience would not be enough to achieve her dream. After 100 visits to the hospital, 8 years pleading for help as her pain became numbness, Rosie collapsed and a doctor finally agreed to order an MRI. She was diagnosed with a rare, incurable disease that progressed to involve her entire spinal cord: Advanced Stage Syringomyelia. She was told she had 6 months to live. Instead of giving up, she chose to go back and spend what she thought were her last months working in healthcare during the pandemic. She fought through the pain of undergoing neurological procedures in the morning to be back in the clinic helping her team and patients by the afternoon. And she did so with a smile on her face. In January 2022, Rosie began rapidly deteriorating after she underwent a procedure that she later learned significantly worsened her condition. In July 2022, she laid in the hospital waiting for answers as she watched her home, belongings, and dream slip away. In the past year, she faced challenges no human was built to overcome. And yet, somehow she achieved what truly seemed impossible: gaining acceptance to medical school. So today we come together not only to say farewell... but to celebrate her acceptance to medical school, her college graduation she never got to experience, and most importantly the medical news she received one week after her acceptance: MRI 06/26/2023: Rosie's syrinx has began to shrink.