The Honors Program allows me to be easily submersed in my studies and engage in discussions with students and professors who are similarly immersed in their studies. There is an immense difference in participating in a class where everyone comes prepared and has profitable insight and opinions in the material and a class where the only one who cares and came to class prepared is someone you must peer into a reflection to see. Last semester, for example, I found myself thoroughly enjoying the readings and discussions in Colloquium in the Humanities. I would come to class with a handful of thoughts, readings, and experiences and leave with an abundance. If I ever came to class with a preconceived notion, my thoughts would either transform in
