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important factors helped me choose that PLU was the place for me. First, I wanted a culture change and to far be away from home. Growing up in rural Montana where everybody knows everybody and they all happen to be your fifth cousin, I wanted to get away from the small town life and experience an urban area in a controlled environment. The PLU “bubble” was exactly what I was looking for. Secondly, I was looking to play soccer for a university in the Northwest Conference and I knew that the program was

limitless opportunities to study abroad – all of those factors added to the university’s appeal for me. My PLU experience: When I first started out at PLU I was overconfident and unabashedly idealistic. When asked on that first day what I hoped to get out of the IHON program, I responded, “I hope to emerge at the end of all this a full-fledged Renaissance man, ready to kill poverty and change the world for the better.” Granted, I may have been trying to be a bit funny, but part of me honestly believed