Prompt 3 – Trying to own my education…

I am at Middlebury because my body has cooperated in schools for the past 17 years. My adherence to the hidden curriculum must be a product of my rule-following ISTJ Myers-Briggs, my non-confrontational immigrant parents, and/or my birth-order as the oldest. Regardless, I’ve nodded politely all the way here. I’m sensing now that blindly following maybe is not as critical anymore. My self-assigned challenge is to make this education not exist merely in response to others, but take its shape in response to me.