-: It's kind of an intangible thing.
I don't know if I've ever had someone say directly to me,
this is what you should do
or this is how you should think about it.
But the relationships that I've had at Temple,
primarily with my primary composition teacher here,
really just encouraged me to just be myself.
And again, that's such a cliche,
but there were a lot of times when I felt, you know,
I see my peers around me doing this thing
and does that mean that I should be doing this?
And by having voices in my ear that were saying,
No, you should just do what you wanna do,
and that's the only person that you can really be.
And that really just strengthened my resolve, I think,
to continue doing what I'm doing.