The nurse you hope to become starts with the student you are today. 🩺🐊 More than 300 incoming UF College of Nursing students began their journey as #GatoRNurses during Traditional BSN Orientation. Students wrote letters to their future selves, reflecting on why they chose nursing and who they hope to become. They’ll receive those letters again when they graduate. They also pledged To Learn. To Serve. To Lead. before walking through an arch bearing those words, a symbolic step into the Gator Nurse community. For Myra Lacue and Amner Montelongo, the moment honored the experiences that led them to nursing and the future they’re now beginning to build. Read the story: nursing.ufl.edu/2026/08/13/a-promise-to-their-future-selves-gator-nursing-students-take-the-pledge