To be truthful, I haven’t always known that creative writing was going to be my choice of study in college. When initially arriving at Wabash College, I had intentions of being a Mathematics major, but through an exploration of other disciplines while trying to fulfill some of my general education requirements, I found myself particularly interested in classes involving some level of creativity. Over the summer of my freshman year, I wrestled with inner self to figure out what I truly wanted to do with my life, and soon after the beginning of my sophomore year of college, I decided that I wanted to be a creator, and thus my journey as a Creative Writing major began.
Through my time studying Creative Writing, I have learned how essential it is for talented writers to exist in the modern world. Art is a necessary component of society today, and it is an especially effective tool when trying to convey something important to an audience. I often like to relate artists to manipulators, which isn’t a very pleasant word to relate artists with, but this is really what our role in society is: we decide that we care about something, and we figure out how to get others to think how we think, through the conventions of whatever artistic medium we know.
I’ve always wanted to change the world, but I’ve never quite seen how that vision could ever come to life as a Mathematics major. I don’t say this to discredit Mathematics as an important discipline, especially as someone with a Mathematics background as well, but I feel that through Creative Writing, there is a light at the end of the tunnel that I can pursue through my art. Writing has given me a much more distinct sense of purpose, and I vow to instill this purpose into any work that I do in the future.