One is ambitious, dedicated and adaptive, the other self-controlled, principled and idealistic. At least, that’s according to the Enneagram types the two have included on their resumes. Zooming with them, though, you get the idea those traits can apply to both sisters.

“I’m not sure entirely how accurate it is,” says Hannah Perkins ’21, alongside fraternal twin Rachel Perkins ’21, about their behavioral-test results, “but it’s definitely something interesting to look at.”

Rachel Perkins ’21 and Dr. Rebeca Muñumer Blàzquez at the Hospital El Bierzo, Ponferrada, Spain, in 2018.

They will both graduate in May with health sciences degrees. And on April 13, they will present their Virtual Furman Engaged project: a catalog-worthy course syllabus based on their pre-med work overseas. Furman Engaged is an annual celebration of students’ diverse and immersive learning experiences, including internships, research, service learning, study away, creative projects, first-year writing seminars and capstone experiences.

Travelers to more than a dozen countries, both students spent the fall 2019 semester in Copenhagen, Denmark, and each shadowed physicians in Spain through Atlantis, a Washington, D.C., organization that provides one- to six-week fellowships, primarily in Europe.

“It was just a fantastic hands-on, firsthand learning experience in the clinical setting,” says Hannah. “We came back to Furman, and we wanted to find a way to make it count for coursework.”

All that summertime study and no credit hours?

“Like Hannah said, with the pre-med curriculum, it can be really challenging to go abroad because you’re basically taking multiple science courses with