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“The connections you make with the people at SUNY Adirondack are lasting. The community that is at SUNY Adirondack was the best part of my college experience.”
In the background, a cat meowed, a recently adopted female with wobbly cat syndrome — formally known as cerebellar hypoplasia, a neurological disorder caused by interrupted fetal brain development — named Mush that Fiona Wohlfarth couldn’t
resist.
“I grew up thinking I knew exactly what I wanted to do: I wanted to be a veterinarian and never considered another job,” said Wohlfarth, who also has a one-eyed cat, Sammi. “In between high school and college, I got a job at a vet clinic and realized that to help animals, I had to be around them suffering all the time, and I just
didn’t have the emotional capacity to do that. It pulled the rug out from underneath me because I had never considered doing anything else.” Her plans to study veterinary medicine were abandoned and, since she was among the top 10 percent in her graduating class at Corinth High