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Rattlesnake Syndrome
I’ve lived in the same town and in the same house my entire life. Most of the people I graduated high school with I have known since I was four. I know my home town like the back of my hand. My grandma calls that Rattlesnake Syndrome. Rattlesnakes can only live a few miles away from where they are born—they have very specific habitat requirements. My decision to move over 700 miles away for college definitely meant I did not have Rattlesnake Syndrome! Change was not something I was accustomed to which is why I think I was so eager for it. I went to school in a foreign place called Colorado, two states away from my family in Missouri. I felt so special going so...
Read MoreBreaking Down the Box
Thinking outside the box inside the box should be a required course. To me it means getting to where you want to be no matter what stands in your way. It’s about realizing your limits and creating from inside of them anyway. As a freshman working my way through my second semester, I realize this way of thinking is especially important to college students. In college we are trying to figure out what we are trying to ultimately become—what’s “outside the box”—how we become it and how we overcome our limits and make them work for us in a positive way. Life is a path and certainly not an easy one to navigate. There are always going to be obstacles. The creativity and...
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