The artifact I chose for my fall semester was soccer. I play for an intramural team with people from HES. It has helped destress me these past few weeks. I get very excited whenever we have a game. I also enjoy spending time with everyone on the team. I have become good friends with everyone and we always have fun when we play. We will also have practices whenever we do not have games which is a good break from homework. It is also good exercise for me and helps keep me active. I do not usually work out on my own, so this is a good way to keep me in shape. Soccer has been one of my favorite experiences so far in college.

The artifact I chose from high school was my dogs. The brown dog is named Leo and the white dog is named Mick. They are Australian labradoodles. I got my dogs my freshman year of high school about 3 months after my previous dog had passed away. Getting them helped me get over the pain of losing my last dog. As well, I helped train and take care of them with the rest of my family. This helped me to learn responsibility and gave me a chance to care for another living creature. My dogs also helped me through any rough times I had in high school. Without my dogs, high school would have been a lot harder.