Growing up in Middlebury is a unique and wonderful experience. Going to Middlebury College is also a unique and wonderful experience. In the J-term class Sound & Story we were given an introduction to radio storytelling, and I was able to explore where these, my own two worlds, collide. My piece explores the emotional turmoil I felt after deciding to attend college in my hometown. In giving myself time to actually examine my feelings toward my decision to attend Middlebury College, I found the open space of a radio story to be the perfect environment to begin to find words for these emotions that in everyday conversation I am hard-pressed to express. Through this extended period of self-reflection I created a piece in which I talk about the process of coming to terms through comparisons with track events that I ran throughout high school.
