I love meeting people with different points of view and experiences than mine and learning from them. I love learning how different cultures work. I love waking up early to watch the sunrise with my friends or cooking a budget dinner with them. I loved who I was when I traveled. I've loved the progress I've made about myself and who I am. But all good things must come to an end. My parents always told me we should go to college. I am fortunate that my parents can afford me to attend college, so I shouldn't waste this opportunity. But I've come to realize that I want to get a college education. I don't know what I want to do with the rest of my life and college is probably the best place to try to figure that out. I believe that being a student at Gonzaga is also what I should be. I feel like it's expected of me, as a nineteen-year-old from an upper-middle-class family, to be a college student. It is less predictable of me, even surprising, that I am a traveler. But if you asked me what I want to do when I grow up, I would tell you anything where I could continue to travel. Traveling is what I want to do in my life. At the same time, college is important to me and I want to be a college student. I hope to soon figure out how to blend my two identities together so that I can have the best aspects of both a Gonzaga University student and a