Hannah Pittard

I was blissfully unaware of what an elite institution it was. And I was blissfully unaware of any kind of real competition. Truly, the worst part of it was what I was doing in private to myself.

You're a kid with a secret and it's a really big secret. It is a secret where you are hurting your body in this intentional way and you're not relying on the outer world and you're not trusting anybody else because you don't want to get caught. You're just so much by yourself. Socially, I was definitely isolated and isolating.

You're a kid with a secret and it's a really big secret. It is a secret where you are hurting your body in this intentional way and you're not relying on the outer world and you're not trusting anybody else because you don't want to get caught. You're just so much by yourself. Socially, I was definitely isolated and isolating.

You're a kid with a secret and it's a really big secret. It is a secret where you are hurting your body in this intentional way and you're not relying on the outer world and you're not trusting anybody else because you don't want to get caught. You're just so much by yourself. Socially, I was definitely isolated and isolating.

By the time I graduated, I'd won a couple writing awards. So I had this idea that maybe I was good or I could be good.

By the time I graduated, I'd won a couple writing awards. So I had this idea that maybe I was good or I could be good.

By the time I graduated, I'd won a couple writing awards. So I had this idea that maybe I was good or I could be good.

I was too intimidated to take a single creative writing class. I didn't want to be told that I wasn't as good as I felt like I'd been on Deerfield's campus. I thought, if I'm not saying what I want, then nobody knows to be disappointed in me or embarrassed on my behalf. Oh, you didn't get it. You wanted to be a writer and you didn't get it.

I was too intimidated to take a single creative writing class. I didn't want to be told that I wasn't as good as I felt like I'd been on Deerfield's campus. I thought, if I'm not saying what I want, then nobody knows to be disappointed in me or embarrassed on my behalf. Oh, you didn't get it. You wanted to be a writer and you didn't get it.

I was too intimidated to take a single creative writing class. I didn't want to be told that I wasn't as good as I felt like I'd been on Deerfield's campus. I thought, if I'm not saying what I want, then nobody knows to be disappointed in me or embarrassed on my behalf. Oh, you didn't get it. You wanted to be a writer and you didn't get it.

I think I sent them something that I might not even have reread and swiftly was rejected. And I'm so glad that I was rejected because it was a wake-up call that if you want this, you have to try.

I think I sent them something that I might not even have reread and swiftly was rejected. And I'm so glad that I was rejected because it was a wake-up call that if you want this, you have to try.

I think I sent them something that I might not even have reread and swiftly was rejected. And I'm so glad that I was rejected because it was a wake-up call that if you want this, you have to try.

It paid off. I got into several different programs and ultimately ended up at the University of Virginia.

It paid off. I got into several different programs and ultimately ended up at the University of Virginia.

It paid off. I got into several different programs and ultimately ended up at the University of Virginia.

You're going to get to grad school and you're going to become the social person that you know you want to be. You're going to change your life.

You're going to get to grad school and you're going to become the social person that you know you want to be. You're going to change your life.

You're going to get to grad school and you're going to become the social person that you know you want to be. You're going to change your life.

The program had its very first meeting. All of the second years in the program were there, and all of the new first years were there. I will always remember the first time I saw Trish. She was captivating.