When I “grow up,” I want to be an explorer, a baker, an environmentalist, and a journalist. I want to be everything. Deciding who I want to be is critical to “growing up,” and that’s why the University of Illinois is the perfect school for me. Explorer. My first trip out of the country was after 6th grade. I traveled to Italy with my grandma. While abroad I was exposed to cultures I had only dreamt of previously. My...

I collect elephants. It’s not political or anything it’s just pure pachyderm passion. Prompted by a quilt my mother made for me when I was a baby, collecting elephants evoked a passion within me that I didn’t know existed. This devotion has expanded beyond the shelf of elephants in my room, into the world I live in. Has my affection for elephants had an impact on my life? In a word, yes. Elephants are highly symbolic animals,...

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