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Angelina Smith Throughout my years at Community, I feel like I’ve really learned how to become myself and how to not care as much about what other people think. There’s this way of life at Community where everyone has the ability to be whoever they want, and no one is really judged for being weird. It feels like at bigger schools, you don’t really have the same dynamic where anyone could be friends with anyone, and everyone talks to everyone in all of your classes. Community really taught me that I don’t have to try and fit in, and I can really just be myself. Throughout the years, it’s also just taught me how to be a lot kinder to everyone around me and also to myself. I really like the people I met at Community, and they really helped me gain a lot of confidence and taught me how to be myself. I’ve learned a lot about the kind of people I want to surround myself with as well. I feel like everyone at Community has this very open-minded mindset, and everyone there is very optimistic about change and equality, and that’s not something that is common throughout the rest of Ann Arbor. But for the most part, I feel like Community has just taught me that those are the kind of people I want to surround myself with, and the kind of people that make me a better me.
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Sam Dannug Just be yourself, and try not to worry about what other people think of you. That’s kind of what maturing is, and I feel like a lot of people develop that throughout high school. [As a freshman] I was very conscious of what other people thought of me. I think it wasn’t one event that caused the growth in myself, but I think going to a lot of the forum days and events. Those events were good for me socially because they made me branch out, which I took with me. I found a lot of my close friends in my forum, so those were great experiences for me. I’m definitely looking forward to finding what it is I’m passionate about. I feel like I’m the kind of person that picks up a lot of hobbies because I’ll be super interested for a little bit, but then that interest quickly fades, and I’m onto a new hobby. Whenever I find a new passion, I’m intensely intrigued with the subject, and learning about the new hobby is very rewarding to me. I’m just hoping to find that same feeling next year at college and follow it.
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