 Has it been a while since you looked at those? Yeah. Well, this morning. No. Yeah. I keep them. I'm kind of the keeper of the memories. My name is Katie Botista, and I am the oldest of five children. I graduated high school in the year 2007. After that, I decided to accept an internship at Walt Disney World. I moved around a little bit, kind of figured out where I was planning to go from there. In 2011, I moved back to Wisconsin. And that summer, my sister, Alyssa, graduated from high school. Together, we decided to enroll at Blackhawk Technical College. I was interested in going into nursing, and she was interested in criminal justice. I had never really thought of attending a technical college. I liked to be active on campus. And I wasn't sure that Blackhawk would be able to offer me the same experiences that I had hoped for. That wasn't the case. I was able to create lasting relationships and friendships. I was able to be active on campus. One thing I would say about myself is that I am definitely a self-doubter. But everyone at Blackhawk has helped me kind of get past that. Really just how well people respond to me and how well I go along with the faculty and staff. Katie has a very positive energy that surrounds her. And I always saw with Katie that brought others up around her, working with students, volunteering in different organizations. She always made everyone rise to the occasion based on her enthusiasm, her excitement, her drive. She just has that aura about her with that positive, positive energy. I had a very full load. And I was still active on campus with student government and the Multicultural Alliance. It really helped me to see a whole new perspective on the technical college experience. And my college experience wouldn't be the same had I not joined student government. I just realized that when you think you're doing the most, you can always do more. Although it may have been overwhelming to some, I think that it's really prepared me for the real world. Our parents divorced when I was about 12 years old. Growing up, my siblings and I didn't have a lot of role models to look up to. It was really just each other that we had. So coming to Blackhawk, me and my sister Alyssa were able to set a standard. The standard that we craved in our childhood, the role model that we needed. Throughout our life, we've been very close. We have a bond like no other. I definitely pushed more to do better in my life because of them. As we started classes and we started to succeed and did well in those classes, my younger siblings saw the whole journey, the whole process. And we encouraged our younger siblings to enroll as well. And with all the events we went to as a family, BTC kind of became our little piece of Wisconsin.