Before starting the Populations Practicum as a Senior 1 CARE student, Yasmin came to speak with me to make me aware of her current situation. She by no means was asking for any preferential treatment or excused absences from the Practicum requirements. During our meeting, Yasmin shared with me that she is currently undergoing weekly chemotherapy treatments for metastatic cancer. She also shared about her current personal life, in which she is a single mother of an 8-year-old son with little outside family assistance. While this is quite a heart-wrenching and challenging situation, I am more taken aback by the fact that Yasmin is one of the most caring, positive, compassionate, and motivated students I have ever had the honor of teaching. She is always on time with assignments, never late to practicum-scheduled experiences, and is a meaningful part of her practicum team. Moreover, her feedback regarding her practicum experiences is overwhelmingly positive, describing activities such as dancing, exercising, loading Food Bank boxes, and taking time to get to know the patients she meets in residential homes and senior centers. She relates something positive every single time she attends a practicum assignment. Her level of humility is like none I have experienced in quite some time. Yasmin never uses her current health or personal situation as an excuse for anything. Yasmin is also progressing on schedule through an extremely stressful and challenging Nursing CARE program while helping her son with his homework and managing the daily responsibilities of single motherhood without complaint. I can't recommend her any more highly for a DAISY Award, as she exemplifies all the tenets of this honor.