I like to begin this story with how I got to Rutgers to eventually become the dedicated young alumna that I am today.
My path to Rutgers was incredibly unconventional. I hail from Sussex County, New Jersey a land that is, unfortunately, rather hostile to its own state university. Growing up, I witnessed flags flying for schools like UConn, Penn State, Notre Dame, and Syracuse. A Block R was a rare sight indeed. When I got to the point in high school where I started looking at colleges I didn’t even look at Rutgers. I genuinely believed it to be an inferior back up school with no prestige or worth.