Wednesday's Child: Cerys

‘Medicine is really tough but having someone to turn to means you won’t get stuck on the way.’ ‘She encouraged me to really go for it,’ Cerys Daniels believes. ‘I honestly don’t think I’d be here without her push.’ Cerys is talking about the mentor who supported her as part of Imperial College’s Bright Journals programme, where Cerys is now in her second year of a medicine degree, something that seemed a distant dream when she first signed up as a mentee. ‘I was the first person in my family to consider anything medicine-related and my school wasn’t much help,’ she explains. ‘I was pretty clueless so it was really important for me to have someone I could ask about what I needed to do to get into medicine. She inspired me to go to Imperial.’ Now, as a mentor on the same programme, Cerys is inspiring younger students herself. ‘I realised that if I was confused at that age there were other people who must feel the same way. It really helped me so I thought it would be fantastic to give something back by helping others.’