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Home, At Last

Melody A. Chang Student Contributor, University of California - Berkeley
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UC Berkeley chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

Why is it so hard to find the feeling of home away from home?

 

Why has it been three years at Berkeley but home is still hours away from this little city? 

When will I find my home away from home?

 

 

But, perhaps, we’ve been viewing it entirely wrong.  What if home isn’t something you “find”? What if home is something we build?

 

Maybe home only feels like our own when we’ve put in the investment and the groundwork in terms of money, time, and building relationships and memories within.

 

 

 

 

It’s impossible to say when this will ever occur but I cannot wait for the moment that I wake up in a place where my heart is completely free, secure, and loved. 

 

 

Home, at last.

Melody A. Chang

UC Berkeley '19

As a senior undergraduate, I seek out all opportunities that expand my horizons, with the aim of developing professionally and deepening my vision of how I can positively impact the world around me. While most of my career aims revolve around healthcare and medicine, I enjoy producing content that is informative, engaging, and motivating.  In the past few years, I have immersed myself in the health field through working at a private surgical clinic, refining my skills as a research assistant in both wet-lab and clinical settings, shadowing surgeons in a hospital abroad, serving different communities with health-oriented nonprofits, and currently, exploring the pharmaceutical industry through an internship in clinical operations.  Career goals aside, I place my whole mind and soul in everything that I pursue whether that be interacting with patients in hospice, consistently improving in fitness PR’s, tutoring children in piano, or engaging my creativity through the arts. Given all the individuals that I have yet to learn from and all the opportunities that I have yet to encounter in this journey, I recognize that I have much room and capacity for growth. Her Campus is a platform that challenges me to consistently engage with my community and to simultaneously cultivate self-expression.Â