In the fall of 2022, I started my college journey at Calhoun. Going in, I was a general studies
major with a concentration in history with the career goal of being a high school teacher. The
transition into Calhoun was one that proved to be difficult. I had picked a major and path in life
that seemed easy and would give my life stability. I had no friends really, most of my friends
from high school went off or away to college. It was a moment in my life that was plagued in my
own loneliness and self isolation. At the same time, I treated Calhoun as what it was a transitional
place and was determined to not really make friends as I did not see the point in it. I would be
here for two years and then be gone. To my great fortune, though, in my second semester in the
spring, I started to make my first friends on campus. Also, towards the end of that semester, I was
inducted into Calhoun’s Sigma Kappa Delta (SKD) English honor society. Little did I know at
the time that group along with the new friends I had made would become the foundations of my
love for Calhoun and the time I have spent here.
When we came back from that summer break, I had a friend group and had changed my major to
English and found my call to want to teach college over high school, and decided that I wanted
to pursue a masters and doctorate. I also became more involved in SKD, becoming the Huntsville
Campus branch President. Getting to work with SKD and the opportunities it gave me to grow as
a leader and a creative was an experience that I would not have been able to experience without
Calhoun.
Now that I am at the end of my Calhoun journey and my classes are wrapping up, I have been
reflecting on everything I accomplished while I was here. I can with certainty say that without
Calhoun I would not be the person I am today, and will always look back on my time at the
campus with fondness, and somewhere, for my career I may look back to fulfill my aspirations
and goals.