![]() When I go home and talk to the people around whom I grew up, I realize how thoroughly my mindset has changed since going away to college. ![]() My perceptions of everything from the financial to the professional to the social have been warped to fit the underlying ideals of my campus. That’s great and all, but I’ve also been living in a bubble for four years. I’ve done everything right by the standards of my current community, and I’m proud of my upward mobility.Ĭlassic senior snapshot on top of the Duke Chapel While at Duke, I’ve met a diverse range of peers, taken interesting classes, studied abroad in Spain and England, pursued research and internships, participated in extracurriculars, and gotten a full-time job in NYC-you get the drift. So, I decided to go far away to college, where things would be better.Īnd I did-and they were. There was a lot of groupthink, and not in a manner that aligned with my beliefs. My town was actually a village you had to drive for 30 minutes to get anywhere interesting, and most people pretty much stayed where they were after graduating high school. While I love what I do for work, I want to be able to decouple that part of my life from my personhood and not be grasping at straws to explain the parts that are left. This is something my peers and I like to joke about yet not put any effort toward changing. To gain perspectiveįor the past four years, who I am has been a function of my academic and professional activities-if you couldn’t tell from my introduction, some version of which I’ve repeated approximately one million times since starting college. Phew, now that that’s out of the way, let’s get into the more exciting stuff! Like, why am I choosing to hike over 2,000 miles and live out of a backpack for a third of a year? There are many reasons, not least of which being I love being outside and moving my body-especially when donuts and other sweet treats are involved! But, English major that I am, I’ve grouped the more nebulous goals of mine into three overarching categories. My fun fact is that once, I ate a dozen donuts in four minutes. After graduating, I’ll be working as a software engineer in New York City. I grew up in Ohio and am a senior at Duke University, where I study Computer Science and English. Hello there! My name is Heidi, and I’m going to hike the Appalachian Trail (my favorite color is currently green, btw).
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