After injury, FACS student trades perfectionism for perspective

Rebecca McReynolds always knew what success looked like.

At least, she thought she did.

It was achievement, good grades, high standards.

“No one put more pressure on me than myself,” she said.

That all changed in the spring of her freshman year. McReynolds was involved in a car accident in 2022 that left her with a severe concussion and other injuries. Less than a year after the accident, McReynolds was back in the classroom.

She praised UGA Accessibility and Testing, formerly the Disability Resource Center, and the FACS faculty and staff in the department of human development and family science for helping her re-acclimate to campus life.