Outline
- Struggled with social anxiety throughout highschool
- led to me not having the best highschool experience
- Blamed others for not being able to be myself. But I am responsible at the end of the day
- I REALLY wanted to study somewhere far from my homecountry. To go somewhere where I can rebuild my identity
- Going to a new environment is one of the best ways to build yourself up from scratch (reference Dr. K)
- I arrive here Jan 15th 2022, the 3rd week of winter semester.
- I was starting to shatter that identity of being that awkward kid who gets nervous when talking to anyone.
- But by the end of my first year, I wasn’t really able to find someone I can call a “best friend”
- show them the power of the community