"Congrats, Shannon! I voted for you!" The words of a familiar faced freshman girl broke through the nervous thoughts racing around my mind. I reacted by politely thanking her before fully grasping what her words meant. As I continued walking down the 900 Hallway, congratulations and high fives met my steps. I hadn’t realized that during those congratulatory minutes, my body had relaxed into the realization of what this all meant before my mind had: I had been elected Vice...

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