In the Fall of 2018, I came into college not knowing who I would meet, what to expect, or even when/if I would figure out what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was always worried about the unknown. Like most freshman, I didn’t know what I wanted or what was going to happen, especially with two, very different majors on my plate (biology and music). I started out thinking too much into what I wanted college to be for me. As draining as that can be, I eventually stopped thinking about the unknown, and took each day as it came. Before I knew it, I oftentimes found myself finishing up lab reports and then rushing to a practice room to practice piano or violin, or sing for an aural quiz I had the very next day. Every day, I went to my 10-person music classes and my 500-person science lectures, and slowly, I got to meet a range of people in different majors: many of whom became my closest friends. Sometime in the fall, I found a great research lab that I’ve been involved in ever since- Cognitive and Systematic Musicology, which combines both science and music to explain how music works with human behavior, physiology, and computation. After almost two semesters of exploring, I started thinking about what I really wanted to do, and by then, I knew that I wanted to do something with science in the future. I came into college expecting a clear picture, but I learned that that is never the case. I learned to not fear the unknown, and instead, turn “the unknown” into something new and exciting. I came to realize that it takes time and experience to really know more about yourself, and in return, I grew more as a person from the beginning of freshman year because I’ve gained this sense of awareness about myself.