Who Am I?

Who am I? Now there's a difficult question to answer. Who am I? Can that question even be answered? Who am I? How does one even start to answer that question? Who am I? ...Do I even know?

Who am I? I am me.

Where to start....ahh yes, the beginning. I was born and raised in rural Iowa. I will forever be a country girl at heart and truly hope to live in the country the rest of my life. I went to a very small school,  K-12. Graduating class size? 127 students. I graduated as valedictorian. I now attended Grinnell College, a very small private liberal arts college, where I study physics and Classics.

My parents are still together; they have been for 30 years and are still going strong. I grew up in a happy, healthy home. My dad is an engineer and my mom was a stay at home mom while I was growing up and now works at a financial agency.  I have one brother who is ten years older than me. He is also an engineer.

I am tiny: 5' 2, 104 lbs and 20 years old. I have extremely long dark brown/black hair. I've never had short hair and still have no desire to cut it. My eyes are hazel most of the time, though sometimes they verge more on brown. I'm exceptionally pale, but I love that about myself. I never tan, and am always very careful about sun exposure. I don't want skin damage and I want to keep my skin like porcelain. I am getting back into exercising, I ran cross-country and played soccer a lot in high school but it's been awhile. I really enjoy yoga, cardio, and strength training. When it's nice outside I love bike rides.

As I mentioned I am a physics and a Classics major. I've known I would study physics since the 8th grade. I read the book "E=mc^2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation", http://www.amazon.com/mc2-Biography-Worlds-Famous-Equation/dp/0802713521, and absolutely fell in love. I was hooked from that moment on. When I got to Grinnell there was no doubt in my mind I was going to be a physics major, and it still remains my passion. It was in my second year of college that I discovered my second passion, Classics. I'll be completely honest, I decided to take a Latin course because Latin was something that "smart people" knew. But, just like with physics, I fell in love. The Classics are about so much more than just Latin and Ancient Greek, they're about history, culture, a people, and most importantly, they're about our past and are a guide to our future.

I absolutely love to read. I may only be 20 but I already have upwards of 800 books. And I've read almost all of them. I also enjoy playing the piano, watching TV, playing video games, drawing and painting. I also enjoy crocheting, something I learned from my mom, and have made 2 blankets and many rugs.

 My favorite color is red. I don't drink and I don't smoke. I can drive a stick and I can handle a gun. I have my ears and my belly button pierced, but no tattoos. I don't need glasses. White roses are my favorite flowers. I'm very afraid of of zombies and the idea of eternity. Spring is my favorite season and Christmas is my favorite holiday. I dislike children at the moment, but I do want children of my own one day. I speak English, am conversational in Italian, can read and write proficiently in Latin and am learning Ancient Greek.

 I'm a strong, individual person, stubborn to a fault but kind and lovable. Fiercely determined I know what I want in life and I will do whatever it takes to accomplish it. I am quiet, and not very social. I dislike large groups of people, but I enjoy the company of a single person immensely. I'm quite naive and easily hurt but resilient and capable of overcoming pretty much anything.

Well, who am I? This is me.