About Me Blog

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My name is Sarina Vito and I'm from Long Island, New York. I am a strategic communications major. I currently don't have a minor but I have been thinking about minoring in social media marketing. I came to HPU because my best friend, who is one year older than me, goes here and when I visited her freshman year I fell in love. After HPU I'm not entirely sure what I really want to do with my life. I know I wanna move back to New York but I don't really have a set mindset on something specific. When I was 18, I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. AML Leukemia is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow meaning I had cancer everywhere in my body. I had to have four rounds of chemotherapy and a life-saving bone marrow transplant. The bone marrow was donated by a stranger in Germany. I had no idea who he was and he had no idea who I was. I wasn't allowed to know who he was because of a certain law that prohibits donors and recipients to have any information on each other for 2 years. My 2 years since transplant was in September so I have been in the process of getting in contact with him. Because of my diagnosis, I had to defer my acceptance to High Point. I was supposed to start my freshman year in 2017 after graduating high school but instead, I started in 2018. A fun fact is that because of my bone marrow transplant, I now have different DNA. I tried to do the 23 and Me DNA test and it came back inconclusive because it's a mix of my DNA and my donors. Here is a picture of me when I was sick and the bone marrow that was donated to me! 

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