Lia Bonfatti

When I first came to college two years ago, I felt like I was stepping through a threshold. I had spent the first eighteen years of my life in the same town with the same group of people. My life was comfortable, but it was unevolving and simple. I didn’t realize at the time, but my small town was kind of like a room with a locked door. On graduation though, that door was thrown open and I discovered a life I had never known before. Throughout my first two years in college, I have discovered tons of new things about myself—new interests, new opinions, new sources of anger and frustration. I have made so many friendships with people whom I would never have met before, and I have learned about topics I never realized were so complex. I have been standing at the threshold for two years now, and I think it is time that I step through. While I love taking in unfamiliar information, I want to produce new ideas and perspectives too. Through the Odyssey, it is my goal to share the voice I have cultivated from moving out of my small town and into “the real world.” I want to employ humor, concern, and passion in order to offer my opinions on topics that matter: from lighter ones, like the movies and books that inspire me, to more complicated ones, like the presidential election and sexism against single women in our society. I have been the observer for my whole life, learning from new experiences and people. Employing the Odyssey’s platform, I want to be the voice.