Habakkuk 3:17-19 (NIV)

“17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. 19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights.”

I discovered the communication major at Cornell during my junior year of high school. Soon after, my family dealt with a lot of illnesses, and I began to intensely struggle mentally. 

I applied to a small number of colleges, was waitlisted at my target schools, rejected by the other Ivies, and my safeties sent me to satellite campuses. However, a month before Ivy Day, I received a likely letter from Cornell. I thought maybe it was a God thing.

If it was, I wanted to lean into it wholeheartedly.

At Cornell, I joined the Christian campus ministry Cru because my family and Christians were all I knew. Christianity is family to me. I decided to go all in and cosplay as a more sociable, confident version of myself — I started connecting with people everywhere via GroupMe. 

I attended Calvary Chapel every week, found a lovely all-girls Community Group that I still talk to regularly now post-graduation, and I accidentally joined Cornell Claritas, a journal of........

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