Ever since high school, I knew I wanted to work in the pathology field. I thought I wanted to be a pathologist. I talked to the career counselors at my school and expressed my interest. Fortunately for me, I was contacted not much after about an internship at Montefiore Medical Center. I would come to learn that Montefiore Medical Center is the teaching hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I would be interning in the Surgical Pathology department. I went to this internship with the intension of learning from the pathologists and getting experience for medical school. What I didn’t know was that I would be spending the vast majority of my time with the pathology assistants. I knew that pathology assistants existed but was