Who Am I?

During our second Honors Colloquium meeting, the freshman University Honors Scholars each answered this question: What is something you brought with you from home that you couldn't imagine leaving behind and what does this thing say about you?

For me, the answer was fairly straightforward, if a little cliche. I brought pictures of myself with family and friends: albums, frames, and loose photographs to pin or string up around me; memories of graduations and birthdays, Christmases and Easters, productions and concerts, all with the happy faces of people I love shining out on even the rainiest days. They help me to remember the family I was born with, the family I have adopted, the friends I have made, and the loved ones whose faces I'll see again someday in Eternity.

I am an introvert. It isn't always easy for me to find new friends who I trust to care about me. But let me tell you, if we become friends, and you prove that you care, I will hang on for dear life. Loyalty and authenticity mean so much in friendship but they are rare and so often overlooked. So the people from home who I know I have? They mean the world to me.

I hope that my years at ETSU will create college friendships that lead to adopted family for life. It may not happen over night, but that's okay. Some things are worth waiting for.