Me - Husky to the bone

All three of my previous posts have mentioned one similar thing: UConn. Ninety-nine percent of the people who know me/read this blog know what UConn is. Especially because I talk about UConn in almost every single sentence. But for those who don't, UConn is short for the University of Connecticut. UConn is Connecticut's flagship university located in the middle of nowhere (a.k.a. Storrs, CT). It has the cutest mascot ever, a husky dog named Jonathan. It's also been my home for the last four, going on five, years.

I first decided to attend UConn way back in the fall of 2012. When other high school kids were talking about where they wanted to go and where they might get into, I already knew that UConn was the only school for me. I had decided to study actuarial science and UConn has one of the top actuarial science programs in the country. On of my program heads used to joke that UConn is know for three things: men's basketball, women's basketball and actuarial science. Eventually I moved from actuarial science to math-stats, a change that I wouldn't have come up with if it wasn't for UConn. 

Attending UConn also helped me widen my interest in photography. I joined the Daily Campus my sophomore year and met some amazing journalists. Junior year I become involved with the UConn Photo club allowing me to meet some fantastic photographers like Fritz Bacon and Tyler Benton. These and other photographers challenged me to improve my craft and try new things every single day. UConn has made me the photographer I am today and the photographer that I will one day become.

But UConn hasn't been all photography and math though. I've had a blast doing all of those things but they alone don't define my UConn experience. UConn has been a whole mess of good and bad experiences. It's been watching countless sports teams win games. It's been staying up till 2 a.m. getting plastered with friends outside of someone's apartment. It's been freaking out being late to my first meeting of some dumb club.
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College is weird. So much happens and we change so much over those four to six years, but we can't tell how much we change unless we actually take a step back and actually look. What happens in college is way too much explain in a simple blog post. It's way to much to explain what UConn has done to make me who I am. So I think the best way to put it is like this, I'm a Husky to the bone. In my core, I'm a Husky and no matter what happens, no matter what changes I'll always be a kid who attended UConn for college.

​Go Huskies.