At CU-Boulder I can see the life I have always wanted to live come together. Everything I love and am passionate about, is there. Leaving the Midwest to live out in the actual West is something I have been longing to do since I was a little girl. On our yearly trips to Wyoming and Colorado, I would stare up at the unforgiving cliffs of Rocky Mountain Range in awe and wonder. My family’s ski trips are the one thing I look forward to most each winter. Skiing is something I have been passionate about all my life. Despite only having the oh-so monstrous bunny hills we call ski slopes at home, I stuck with it. Like skiing, my sophomore year engineering class was something that grabbed me. Finding myself indulging completely in my engineering,
