Though having studied Japanese since her freshman year, it wasn’t until senior Amelia Harrington uttered the words jibun wo ukeireru koto ga deki hajimete imasu — “I have started to accept myself” — in a speech competition that she claimed a space for herself to thrive. Listen to Amelia discuss her journey going against the grain and translating her passion for Japanese into something uniquely hers as she reads her personal essay on the eleventh episode of ADMITTED.

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