“It has shown me that I might not be able to change the world, but I can change somebody’s world,” Halupa says.

That is an outlook that she says she hopes to take with her into her medical career. 

“I can see people for who they are, as people rather than their diagnosis, or rather than for the sickness they’re presenting me with,” Halupa says. 

As she prepares for graduation, Halupa says that while Saint Joseph’s wasn’t where she imagined she would go to school when she first considered her college choices, she can’t imagine her life if she had gone anywhere else. 

“I can explore everything I’m passionate about in one place,” she says. “There are so many things that are so unique to Saint Joe’s.