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College is the only place you will go where your only goal is to learn. But in a living learning community students have the opportunity to learn, live, and grow together. I am so blessed to be in FLP and experience what it is like to live with other leaders. We are all so different and yet one in the same. Although we are all relatively the same age, we learn from each other and become wiser, smarter, and more full of swag. Everyone on the floor has his or her own way of leading. Coming together in the beginning of the year, we were all strangers and now we are the closest, weirdest, and talented family around. I did not want to do FLP when I was first applying for colleges. In between Madison and Creighton, I was struggling with figuring out whether or not state school was for me or if I still wanted the smaller and more intimate setting. On top of that, I had a bunch of scholarship essays to write and, although FLP had it’s perks, I thought I could live without it. Now that I’m here, I know that I surely would have missed out. Actually, that is quite the understatement. I would have missed out on living with my best friends, going to service, dressing up and going to seminars, learning the unthinkable, and the best year of my life. Being here, with all these beautiful people, I found myself. I know who I am, how I want to run my life, and impact others with the help of my friends on the floor. I know now that my life can and will be so much greater. Life is not meant to be content; life is to be lived to the fullest. The family I have been adopted into here in FLP has helped me understand that. Leadership is arguably a trait that is either born in people or made. Although I believe I was born to be a leader, FLP has definitely made me a better leader. On our floor, we have a lot of headstrong people that know what they know and know how to reason. Many people on the floor are optimistic and think for the better and the greater. Some have a slightly different outlook and are more realistic. We have dreamers and spontaneous leaders that, whenever needed, always step up to the challenge. I see myself as this way too. Then we have the organized people who like to live an orderly life and lead with structure. We have a few quiet ones that assess everything around them, thinking to themselves what could be better, what they like, what should change. They see the world in the simplest. Everyone here is a leader, a leader in their own way yes, but never the less a leader. I am proud to call myself one and know my friends are too. I knew FLP was going to be fun, but I didn’t know how much. I thought I’d find closer friends off the floor, but my bestiest friends I have made here at Creighton, live on the floor. I love them to death and would do anything for them, each and every single one. I love being around everyone on the floor. We have all shared so many memories together I can’t help but smile. In and out of the classroom we have grown together and become better people. FLP is literally the best thing to have ever happened to me.