When I look at this picture of myself, I realize how much I've grown and changed, not only physically, but also mentally as a person in the last couple of years. Less than one month after this photograph was taken, I arrived at Boston University in Boston without any idea of what to expect. I entered my freshman year of high school as an innocent "Non-English speaker" girl from Albania who was about a thousand …showed first 75 words of 795 total…

…showed last 75 words of 795 total…in Massachusetts, I still consider my old High School as a school that deserves a lot of credits for its efforts. Often, some part of the mold does remain. As the college experience approaches, I am still the same person, only modified to better maximize my talents. Although I still have some time to play soccer, tennis, and see movies, perhaps one of the few similarities between this photograph and me now is my smile.