Addie Arthur

One consistent thing that I’ve had in my life is just that: consistency. I grew up in the same house, on the same road in the neighborhood next to where my dad group up. I was enrolled in an all-girls school at the age of 2 and never looked back. From there I knew exactly who my friends were, exactly what sports I wanted to play, and exactly what my future major would look like. Some may think that this consistency was boring, lacking the excitement that comes with all kinds of changes. But I was perfectly content to stay in that bubble and no big changes truly came.

That is, until the college application process was complete, and I found myself at the University of Georgia. Initially a computer science major who loved physics, I was excited to dive deep into my studies and find the familiarity and comfort that came with them. I watched my first lecture video for computer science and then cried after. I had not realized that in my bubble of consistency and lack of change that I was not doing what I truly loved. I was in a new place, with new people, with a new passion, and it just made me miss my dogs and home even more.

Rather than sulk though, I decided to make it my mission to make the action of changing something that I practice on a consistent basis. With all these exciting new changes I find myself more adventurous, more outgoing, and more myself than I could have ever imagined. We may have moved out of our old house, our first dog may have passed, and I may no longer attend that small school at home, but ultimately pushing me outside of my comfort zone was just exactly what I needed.