I am an academic. College has always been my safe space, something that has really been driven home over the past few years. I met both of my best friends there, I developed my voice and sense of self and so many other things over the years that I took for granted as just another experience (I am trying going to eliminate hedging and limiting language from my vocabulary this year; that is a goal before I graduate).
I can honestly say that I’m looking forward to this next part of my academic journey. Moving to Bothell, starting grad school, hopefully working on campus, deliberately immersing myself into the community and actively participating sounds incredibly scary but also FUN. I need to get out of my head about my age or speaking up too much, and curate and make my experience as full as I want it to be.