Raquel Coronell Uribe, president of The Harvard Crimson, writes about fighting cancer twice before turning 25.
Raquel Coronell Uribe had just celebrated a five-year remission milestone in December. While she had no reason to believe her illness would come back, she felt she was “living on borrowed time.”
Coronell Uribe recently finished her history-making term as the first Hispanic president of The Harvard Crimson,“I’m really honored to be the first Latinx president, but we have to make sure that doesn’t mean that I’m the last,” Coronell UribeRaquel Coronell Uribe was the Crimson's first Latinx president in the paper’s 148-year history.After a busy year, she was supposed to relax at home and enjoy the winter break ahead of her final semester as a senior majoring in history and literature.
“When my peers were looking at colleges where they could spend the next four years, shopping around for a future, I was wondering whether I would have one at all,” she writes. “You cannot make them understand the pain of having to fight a years-long battle with cancer not once but twice before your 25th birthday,” she continues. “How do you begin to think about grieving for yourself?”
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