“I want to understand and learn environmental science so I can be in a place one day where I am helping to make decisions that will protect the thing that gives so much to us. My classes/classmates make me hopeful for nature’s future, yet I know there are many who make me unhopeful. Even though it is difficult, one of my professors once said that we do not have the luxury of despair, so we must keep fighting to protect it, which I intend to do.”