Atlas Twp.- After five years of college, including two at Mott Community College and three at Michigan State University where she earned a BS last spring, township resident Angela Lusty has one more rung on the academic ladder to climb.
Lusty, 22, was seeking a seat in the College of Veterinarian Medicine at MSU.
‘When I got the letter in the mail from Michigan State University, at first I was so scared, I didn’t want to open it. The letter sat on the counter for about two hours until my dad got home. Finally my dad said, ‘you know, you have to open that letter.? When I did and read that I was accepted, we were so excited that my family and I went out to dinner to celebrate.?
Selected among 860 applicants, Lusty said she was among the 216 asked to be interviewed by two veterinarians at MSU, and was one of 126 selected to attend the college. She said MSU’s veterinary college is considered to be one of the best colleges of veterinarian medicine in the country.
Lusty, a 2003 Powers Catholic High School graduate, is also an accomplished musician, working her way through college by playing the organ and piano at St. John Catholic Church in Davison. She is also a member of the Dressage team at MSU.
Her hopes are to be a large animal veterinarian after she graduates. Lusty said there is a shortage and expects that she may even be recruited.
The road to accomplish her goal to be a veterinarian, she knows, is long and arduous. ‘Some people have told me the academics are even more difficult than to become a doctor. Maybe it is because doctors learn about only one species and we have to learn about so many more. I saw a T-shirt once that said, ‘Real doctors treat more than one species.?