Graduating as a college student and former patient | UNC School of Nursing

A young, white woman with blonde hair and a green sweater smiles and holds her school books in front of a staircase.

Caroline Robinson ’26, a current Carolina Nursing senior and former patient in the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Program at UNC Health reflects on her sophomore year when an unexpected diagnosis abruptly shifted her life in this story by Kate Slate in Carolina’s Office of University Development.

Caroline spent the days following her diagnosis in her childhood bedroom. She broke down and repeatedly asked herself, “Why me?” — because who is diagnosed with cancer when they’re only 20 years old?

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