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Although I was in the mainstream classes I think sometimes the other kids in school didn’t know how to relate to me because I was different from them. After school one day, while in my freshman year of high school, I was approached by a teacher who told me about an opportunity called Unified Theater.  It sounded interesting to me. So I went that day and I actually had a very good time.

At UT I met a lot of new people who became fast friends. It really did change my life by allowing me to discover that other people in the same age range as me have some of the same interests as I do. I think the other kids also learned that I was really just another one of them.

 Unified Theater has now been a part of my life for the past six years and it has continued to help me make new friends even after high school. In UT, the differences disappear.

Bradley Roofner, Finance and Business Honors Program

The Texas Undergraduate Investment Team

Beta Upsilon Chi

Freshman Founders, mentor

“My business partner and I will remain in the best city in the world (Austin, Texas) and continue to run our investment partnership. We are conducting research on public companies that meet our investment criteria and also looking for local Austin startups that can use our capital effectively.”

 Elizabeth Terrazas, Government, Corporate Communications, Bridging Disciplines (BDP) in Social Entrepreneurship and Non-Profits

Mu Epsilon Theta, President

Foundation Scholars Program

Longhorn Awakening

“I will be traveling abroad to Beijing, China immediately after graduation. I do not have a set job or plan for when I get back, but I know I want to serve low-income communities, either as a teacher or a college prep counselor. I plan to pursue a Masters in Public Policy in the years to come and spend my life reforming the public education system in order to improve the lives of those that come through it.”

Learn how more of the 8,800 Longhorns graduating this week plan to make their mark on the world. And more importantly, how are you going to change the world?