Student Blog: Reflecting on a Transformative Final Teenage Year

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You can take a person out of the theatre, but you can't take the theatre out of a person

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As the semester comes to a close, I can’t help but reflect on how much I have evolved as a person in the past year. I went from a Human Physiology student in Boston to a Public Relations and Advertising student in Los Angeles.

Quite the jump.

While these two lives seem completely opposite from one another, I feel as though I have remained the same person and changed immensely at the same time. The main differentiator between my 2025 and 2026 self is how much I am willing to put myself and my voice out into the world.

Contributing as a student blogger for BroadwayWorld this semester was the first public display of my writing. While it may not be the most polished or formal writing I have done, pressing the submit button on these blogs has made a world of difference for me.

I have loved to write since first grade when I wrote books about my pet turtle or recess games with my friends. Holding my pencil was like holding the key to a new world. I wrote, wrote, and kept writing.

All of those words, though, stayed trapped inside my endless stack of journals, across all five of my Google accounts, and inside my OneDrive folders. My personal writings never saw the light of day.

When I saw the opportunity to write for BroadwayWorld, I knew that it was one I could not pass up. Theatre has opened so many doors for me both opportunistically and emotionally, so why not share about it?

A year ago, I was nervous about entering my last year as a teenager. I had so many goals that I wanted to accomplish before I left my teenage years behind, yet they all seemed unattainable. There was so much that I wanted to do that I didn’t know where to start. I was stuck in ambition paralysis. I just sort of froze.

I journaled, journaled, and kept journaling until I willed myself to start. All that I promised myself was that I would put myself out there authentically.

Step one of that plan was joining my first theatre group. Through that group, I found myself a group of friends who allow me to grow and make mistakes without feeling like the world is going to end.

Since then, I’ve crossed off many of the goals that felt out of reach a year ago. I performed on a stage not once but twice, I am a part of the executive board for a club, I made new friends, I survived living across the country from my family, and I put my writing out into the world.

Circling back to the theme of this month’s blog: “what has surprised you most about your experience of writing about theatre?”

That is what has surprised me most. Writing these blogs and centering them around theatre has made me realize the extent to which theatre shapes my own life. Not only does it shape the activities I choose to participate in, but it also shapes the way I live.

Even if performing is not something I plan on pursuing professionally, theatre is at the core of who I have become. It equips me with the skills and people that encourage me to stand in the light and see what comes of that. There are not enough words to express how much theatre means to me, and I thank this blog for reminding me of just that.

As the semester comes to a close, I wanted to reflect on what I've learned as a Student Blogger with BroadwayWorld, specifically in terms of discovering myself and my values through my writing.

While that uncertainty hurts the Type A side of me, the fear is motivating, and I find it to be extremely helpful to be somewhat on the side of the unknown.

Something that I feel is overlooked for actors is developing skills aside from acting. There's the pressure to just choose something and stick with it. I decided to share my experiences of trying things other than performing and how they have benefitted me, both as an actor and as a human.

Writing about theatre has not made me an expert, but it has made me a far more attentive observer, and that has been the biggest surprise of all.

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Student-Blog-Everythings-Coming-Up-Theatre-20260528)._