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In my favorite English course in college, our instructor encouraged us to write about our personal life and deeply connect to our families and friends. I loved how the professor was sensitive to personal issues and pushed me to write well about myself.

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Investigating the Queer history of my home town

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Investigating the Queer history of my home town

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“We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams. Standing by lone sea breakers and sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, on whom the pale moon gleams. But we are the movers and shakers of the world forever it seems. Act well your part, for there all the honor lies.” - Oscar Wilde (The Actor’s Prayer)

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Having to do assignments for a month to broadcast the greatness of black leaders.

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My senior year of high school I completed a thesis related to human rights issue and it was a very worthwhile and rewarding opportunity to engage with a subject that was important to me. I also had the chance to build a close relationship with my teacher/advisor.

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Swimming:)

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In 3rd grade, I was able to do my women's history month report on my grandmother.

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In my AP Lit class in high school, we were able to choose what book we wanted to read for our big term paper, and I really appreciated that because it's easier to write a lot about something that actually captures my interest.

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"Actually, I didn't like [school] very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked."-Rachel Dratch

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School projects/assignments where I was able to have choice and choose topics that were relevant or important to me made a school project a lot more meaningful.

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In middle school I did a family tree and I got to learn through about my families stories and histories with immigration and establishing themselves in the US and those stories helped to ground me in where I came from

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I took a TV news class in high school where I had to go interview a teacher on my first on class. This interview was then broadcast to the school, giving me my first taste of journalism and how it connects to the community.

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My high school journalism class gave me an opportunity to step into a leadership role as Editor in Chief, and connect with fellow students about issues related to our school experience.

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Our class took a field trip to the beach near us to do science activities and observe wildlife. I remember having a different understanding of my area.

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Whenever I had the option to pick how I wanted to showcase my knowledge of the class for the final
I’m college vs being told “this is what you have to do”