Military medicine
Focus, confidence, and precision: Are we talking about sports or surgery? With MIT senior Laura Lu, both.A top gymnast from Rockville, Md., who dreamt of competing at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing before tearing her shoulder in training, Lu bounced back from the disappointment and into a different passion: medicine.Now a biology major at MIT who aims to become a Navy surgeon, Lu has always had what she calls a “penchant for medicine.” When she was younger, Lu would watch medical TV shows while eating dinner, gazing with particular interest at the surgery scenes and perplexing her parents, she remembers with a chuckle.“I was fascinated by how they could open someone up, fix it, and then they’d be better,” Lu says. Laura Lu Photo: Allegra Boverman But Lu had never considered taking her interest in medicine into the military — until she met with soldiers at the...