 My name is Jaylin Allen and I'm from Birmingham, Alabama. My college search kind of started my junior year and I ended up going up north to NYU, really all over the state of Alabama. And once I stepped foot on U.A.'s campus, it just immediately felt like home to me. My major is public relations and I started off as a psych major because I knew I wanted to help people with my degree. But I found myself in roles around campus that had some type of form of PR going on with them. So with Dance Marathon, PR, Avanti, PR, a blunt student investor, PR, and then I just kind of noticed that these are roles that I really enjoy and they give you a little bit of every communications major. So as a PR major, you may take a journalism class, an advertising class, and it really gives you the skills that really set you apart from other PR majors from different schools. Being a blunt student investor kind of prepared me for both Dance Marathon and Avanti since it was the first thing I did on campus and it kind of gave me my first feel for I really enjoy helping people feel more comfortable about transitioning into something involving college and it kind of opened my eyes to what else I could potentially want to do on campus. I've definitely grown as a person. I've become more outgoing, I've become more energetic. I used to be the shy kid that wouldn't speak up and being at U.A. really helped me open up more as a person and also grow at the same time. So I'd say take a closer look at U.A. because you'd be surprised at the person you could become here.