My whole life has been a sort of bubble, with the same people attending the same community college and staying in the same town. When I came across Sarah Lawrence my sophomore year of high school, something immediately clicked. The college was something unlike any other school I had researched. For a girl from California, New York feels like a safe heaven from an endless cycle of the same rural town. Sarah Lawrence has a great public policy program, and from a young age, I have had strong opinions about Chicano identity and activism. I have learned so much, in my time as a high school student about protesting and the process of making change within a community, but my creativity has not been fully developed. At a place so diverse and inspired
