I chose this for my artifact because it represents the amazing night when Bryan Stevenson, the author of the Buckeye Book Community book chosen for my freshman class to read before we started our first semester at OSU, came to the university to speak as present by First Year Experience. He was the featured speaker of that night and most of the freshman class was required to go. I came to Mershon Auditorium in a bad mood just wanting to go to bed already. But by the end of his speech, I was crying happy tears because I was so moved and inspired by his words and presence on stage. He talked about so many things including: his life, college, his line of work, and how we can change the world. He talked us through a step-to-step process of how we can start changing the world right now. Everything he said was so true and relevant. How he presented it to us was so touching and easy to follow and relate to. I will never forget this night because I will remember it as the night my heart was reawakened and I was given hope in a world where hope is so easy to lose hearing of all the bad things happening to frequently in our world.