![]() ![]() Her advanced placement work in high school already has earned her nearly half of her undergraduate course credits. She is a first-year engineering student at Texas A&M University, a National Merit Scholar, Presidential Scholar and a Brown Scholar. Now meet the actual teenager: Rebecca Taylor. It is easy to imagine such a teenager turning inward, not finishing high school, feeling hopeless. It can be a struggle just to get out of bed. She needs an oxygen tank at her side and lives in pain day after day. Imagine a teenager who battles life-threatening, debilitating illness for most of her young life, enduring 100 surgeries and 1,200 days in hospitals, missing holidays at home, high-school dances and hanging out with friends. Mike Reilly/Texas A&M University System Marketing & Communications ![]()
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