Training is like art therapy for my mental and emotional states. There's a side of training that isn't the shade of agony painted above. Swimming is a lonely individual sport, so I spend these sessions attempting to numb myself from the repetitive motion and instead allow myself into dreamland, releasing my imagination, meditating on some trivial matter, or figuring out the logic behind that one physics question that I couldn't solve in class. When I'm in the pool, it’s...

I'm going into my current university for New Media Design and let's just say, the course encompasses teaching on all of my interests and more! I've always been into this interdisciplinary field, so the fact that RIT combined everything into one major makes it ideal for me. RIT for one is a well-established college. In terms of the name that they've made for themselves in the tech and artistic fields, they're definitely up there. RIT also receives a LOT of endowment, and as a master's college, I felt like it was ideal for me as an undergraduate college that would...