Jack Holmes - Brown University

This fall was a great beginning to my senior year! I was finally able to move off campus, so my friends and I got an apartment. Learning to share our home has been a both fun and fulfilling experience. We all learned from the challenges together, and I now feel more prepared for living with other people in the future. Academically it was also an exciting few months. With the classes I completed over the fall, I am finished with the requirements for my Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience. This opens up the possibilities for classes I can take in my final spring semester. Over the fall I had taken some history courses and really enjoyed them. I had forgotten how much I loved history and the humanities more broadly. I also got the chance to do some creative writing assignments which reignited my passion for storytelling, worldbuilding, and fiction writing. I am excited for the prospect of taking more humanities and perhaps even some creative writing courses in the spring. My peers and I are at a very exciting and scary part of our lives. In a few months, most of us will be done with college. For me, there is a lot of uncertainty about the future. Throughout high school I was focused on getting to college. Once in college, the goal became a lot more unclear. While I have still devoted myself to my academics and to getting the most out of my schooling, I am not certain what my next steps will be. This uncertainty is, as I said, both exciting and scary. The key for me has been getting over the fear and focusing on the excitement. Soon the whole world will be at our fingertips and, in part thanks to MVYouth, I believe we are all ready to grasp what comes next.