Personal Narrative: Eve Sawyer

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“Never underestimate the power of passion.” -Eve Sawyer. When I met Kastasya, it was almost ten at night. It was late enough that the lights in the dorm hallway were turned off, and all the residents’ doors were closed. I was walking back to my room and spotted this sweet girl with a passive gait. Her headphones were in and her backpack sat low on her back; she had obviously just come from campus. Since I had not met her yet, I decided to introduce myself as her new RA. She was so focused on her gaze that it took a second for her to register what was coming out of my mouth was more than a simple hello. I introduced myself and asked her how she has been. She confessed that she had just gotten back from studio. I had heard of students going to studio, but I asked her more about it. As she spoke, I could see the exhaustion starting to melt away and the passion fueling her. She is in the College of Architecture at Kansas State University, and from what I could tell, she loves it. I watched the tired girl’s eyes get wider and wider and the corners of her mouth get higher and higher. She began to tell me about the project she …show more content…

The project she was working on was based on the statistically proven, ideal study space. Kastasya would have to completely design a space based off the data that people like to work outside, with other’s stopping by every so often to keep their motivation high. As she was talking, this sounded ideal to me too, but Kastasya admitted this was the exact opposite of how she likes to work. She likes to be in the corner of a quiet room with her headphones in, away from the world. Not only is studio challenging her with the course load, but it is also getting her out of her comfort zone; and Kastasya embraces it. Her face lit up as she was telling me all the things she had to do in her studio class. I was thinking it was too much work, but her smile said

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