BLACKSBURG, Va., March 25 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Michelle Goodnight's path to veterinary medicine started with a detour through space, or at least the idea of it.
As a high schooler, she spent a summer working at NASA, convinced she was headed for Mars. But the downtime between missionsdidn'tsuit her."When astronauts aren't in space, which is the majority of the time,they're doing things Idon'tfind interesting," she said.
Goodnight needed something faster. She justdidn'tknow what that was yet.
At Marshall University, she finished her bachelor's degreeonafour-year scholarship,double majoringin biology and chemistry,with anaddedminor,andextracourses,all while searching for...