Margot Gardin is a writer and medical student living in New York City. She completed her undergraduate studies at Barnard College, graduating with a degree in English Literature, and is currently in her final year of study at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In July, she will begin her Ophthalmology Residency at NYU. She writes the way she breathes— constantly, deeply, always in need of more. Her work has appeared in Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine.