Dear Anita

I hope you have a good week ahead and blessings to you for being the special person you are. Financial aid documents can be difficult for the universities that I am applying for, but I am keeping track of the financial aid resources of each school and keeping things organized. I am presenting in Art History today about the New Jersey State Museum which I visited during Spring break and explaining why the museum is a significant part of art history. I also have my Chemistry II lab exam today, hope I do well on it. Thank you so much for your encouragement that always brightens my days. I am grateful to have a friend like you in my life who inspires me to become a better person each day. My Chemistry II lab classmates are very helpful and they help each other with lab calculations and Chemistry II notes. I hope that during my summer Physics course I also have helpful classmates in my class helping me with the material if I struggle. My lab partner and I work well together, checking each others calculations and also making sure each other understands the material. If one of us doesn’t understand it, the other helps with it. The students help each other understand the lab experiments and also study for the exams and provide encouragement to each other. Even though Chemistry II is a hard class, it has been great having my lab classmates and lecture classmates help me along. I will miss Ocean County College when I graduate, but I will be back to visit. I only have a presentation for Art History (today), Chemistry II lab exam (today) and Chemistry II lecture exam (tomorrow) and the semester is done. The last Ocean Pride LGBTQ meeting is Friday, May 17th and it’s a celebration for the club members and also a way to welcome new members to the club. I will be at the last meeting and when I transfer to a four year university, I will revisit Ocean County College to see how the Ocean Pride LGBTQ club is doing. Hope that it continues and inspires other students as it helped me. All three universities that I’ve applied to are LGBTQ friendly. Rowan University allows me to use my preferred name Janus and also has good housing options for LGBTQ people. Stockton University has a Transgender Pride group on campus that meets once a week and they provide access to resources the students may need like mental health services and pronoun pins. Rutgers University has seminars educating people about LGBTQ people and there are LGBTQ cultural history classes students can take that I am interested in. In addition, Rutgers University has Pride events during the early spring/summer months where LGBTQ people can meet other people and learn about how to thrive in the workplace and seek the resources they need. Thank you so much Anita for all that you do and for brightening my life just by being you, thank you special soul so true hope your light shines like the stars during the darkest times.