Girl Who Dared to Dream

**Draft from 3/22/18 posting on 8/27/18 because it is something I can still look back on and enjoy and deserves a spot on the blog.** If someone were to ask you, "Who are you?" you would probably start listing off personal traits about yourself or things you're involved in. For example, I would tell people I'm a sophomore in college, a growth group leader on my hall, I'm a twenty-year-old woman, and I'm pretty average sized. However, based on just the things I listed, there are so many things about myself one would not know. I know many other people who look and seem very similar to me but are in fact very different. We have different likes and dislikes, opinions, and personal experiences. Currently, I am taking a class called Psychology of Women. Last night, (yes, it's a night class) we talked about how people often only see a single part of our story and assume that's all there is to us. We watched a TED talk ( https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamand...

**Old draft posting on 8/27/18 because it is something I can still look back on and enjoy and deserves a spot on the blog.**       I haven't posted on my blog in a long time. However, I have recently been inspired by other blogs to start writing on here again. One reason I have not been writing on here for so long is I didn't know what to write. I lost my inspiration and got discouraged. I had wanted to write an end of my freshmen year of college post but that didn't happen. After my first year of college ended I was, to be honest quite emotional. It was a transition period of change in my life. I wasn't going to see my friends for 3 months and when I came back to college I wasn't going to live in the same hall or in the same dorm as many of them. I knew it was going to be a very different experience and I was afraid. I was going to start a new job that summer and I was nervous. I had just started my first relationship and I was also nervous about that. As you can...