 I'm Rowan Waller. I'm a senior studying food science with a minor in food and agribusiness management, and I'm from Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue is the best fit for me because being from Lafayette, Indiana, I grew up knowing that there was a world-class university in my backyard and being in the top 10 for what I wanted to study as well as the organizations I could be involved in and scholarship opportunities. I just knew it was the place that I knew I wanted to be. My favorite campus tradition has to be sledding down Slater or the Purdue IU basketball game at Mackey Arena. Taking giant leaps definitely looks different to everyone, but for me it means stepping out of my comfort zone, being willing to try something new every day and taking every day as a learning experience and knowing that my time learning and developing doesn't stop once I graduate from here. That is something that I'll experience for the rest of my life.