My name is Arianna Hull, I am currently a senior at San Diego State University, studying Journalism. In the fall I plan to attend the University of Westminster to get my master's in Journalism. Currently, I am working two jobs as an Editor for the Newspaper at San Diego State and as a barista at Starbucks. This is two less jobs than I had last semester, as I was also working as a wedding server and as an Editorial Intern for San Diego Magazine. I left these two other jobs to pick up more hours at my other jobs. I have worked this hard throughout college in an attempt to minimize the amount of loans I will have to take on. My first two years of college I worked at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park full-time to help save money, but I left that job when I moved further away from the location. My goal is to finish my Master's with no debt, and I have worked full-time throughout my undergraduate degree as a way to acheive this goal. Another way that I have minimized the debt I have undertaken throughout my undergraduate program is to live at home. I live with my parents to save on living costs, then commute the hour to school everyday. This allows me to pool the money I would have saved on rent and put it toward my tuition. This will not be possible when I get my Master's as I will be studying in London. I plan to transfer Starbucks locations to one in London to offset the cost of rent and prevent paying rent out of my savings during my Master's. A student visa in London only allows one to work 20 hours a week which means I will still have to rely on my savings to pay rent, but the cost will be less drastic than if I relied solely on my savings. The last way I am trying to address the cost of school is by applying for numerous scholarships, to offset the cost and avoid taking out loans to cover my entire education. I have applied to internal and external scholarships as a way to maximize my potential of winning. I have yet to win any of the scholarshps I have applied for, but I am hopeful that will change eventually which will help pay for some of my Master's.

My name is Arianna Hull, and I am a senior studying Journalism at San Diego State University. My leadership comes in the way I practice my journalism. I am the editor of Arts and Culture at the newspaper at SDSU, and that role has allowed me to become a leader through heading the arts and culture section. As Editor, it is my job to not only lift people up but also push them to their greatest potential. I ensure all of our articles meet the newspaper's standards and that each student who writes for my section is putting their best foot forward. As the leader of the section, it is my job to make sure I set the example for what good arts and culture reporting looks like so that others can watch my reporting and follow. For my position, this also means allowing others to shine. As humans, we are all inclined to pull the attention onto ourselves and put our own work on a pedestal. As editor, I have to think of what is best for the entire team, and sometimes this means my work sits on the back burner to allow for the work of my writers to shine. For example, we recently published our "Best of 2025" edition of the paper, and in the paper, my Editor-in-Chief was pushing for one of my pieces to be under the arts and culture section. As a writer, I wanted to immediately accept, but my role as editor made me halt and rethink this decision. I knew that my piece was good, but I felt it did not represent our section as a whole. I knew I needed to represent my whole team, which meant stepping away from my attachment to my own work and putting forth the work of one of my writers. For the good of the team, I had to be self-sacrificing to lift my team. This is a hard decision, but I believe it is one all leaders have to make. In Chinese philosophy, the Great Sage Emperor Yu is said to be self-sacrificing, putting the good of the Chinese public over his own desire to go home to his wife and child. I never had to stop the flooding of the Yellow River, but I believe this philosophy of the importance of sacrificing happiness for the greater good is something that we can all steal to better our own leadership practices. To me, being a good leader is all about lifting others, being a good role model, and sacrificing your own happiness for the happiness of others.

My name is Arianna, and I am a 20-year-old Senior in Journalism from San Diego. I was recently accepted into the University of Westminster in London to further my studies in the field of journalism, and I hope to work in international affairs. I pursue writing to tell the stories that I feel are often neglected. I hope to give a voice to the people who are often ignored in society and shine a light on what many people may previously have been in the dark about. When it comes to my identity, I have often faced challenges related to my race and my sexuality. I live in a racially diverse part of the world, but my local pocket at San Diego State University is sparse in terms of Mexican American individuals. I have been told to speak "Mexican," and I have been told that if I can not perform, then I must not be a "true Mexican." As someone who is mixed, Mexican and Polish, and grew up speaking largely English with my family, I have struggled with having to cater to many of my White peers' ideas of what it is to be Mexican. With recent developments surrounding ICE raids in my region, I have experienced people profiling myself and a few of my Mexican peers by assuming that we do not speak English or that we may not have papers. At my work, I had a customer tell me she wanted a Mocha and said it had chocolate in it, and that I must not know it in my part of the world, and she wanted someone "from here" to help her. I felt shocked in this moment, astounded that someone could say this is someone without knowing their cultural background. My passion for writing is to expose bias, like this instance, and shine a light on the mistreatment of people because of their identity and factors they can not control. Another aspect of my identity that I have faced challenges due to is my identity as a Bisexual woman. As someone who is bisexual, I have faced many challenges with people neglecting a part of my identity in favor of simplifying it. I have dated both men and women in the past and have received comments from multiple partners of both identities regarding a distaste for my history with the other. I often found men sexualized and dehumanized my history with women, and women felt I was impure because of my history with men. This erasure of my identity and reduction of it has sparked my desire to write about Bi stories and bring to light the struggles that Bi individuals can face to feel like they belong in the LGBTQ+ community.

“Fly off home then, if that’s your heart’s desire. 190 I’ll not beg you to stay on my account. I have others around to honour me, especially all-wise Zeus himself. Of all the kings Zeus cherishes, it’s you I hate the most. You love constant strife— war and combat. So what if you’re strong? Some god gave you that. So scurry off home. Take ships and friends. Go rule your Myrmidons. [180] I don’t like you or care about your rage. But I’ll make this threat: I’ll take your prize, 200 fair-cheeked Briseis. I’ll fetch her in person. You’ll see just how much I’m the better man. And others will hate to speak to me as peers, in public claiming full equality with me.” The underlying meaning of this tumultuous moment between Agamemnon and Achilles in Homer's The Iliad is that pride, kleos, and the fight for everlasting glory can lead important, powerful men to make decisions that hurt the greater good and cause a later distortion of the events, leaving the women to carry the blame for battle. Agamemnon, in this moment, knows that to win the Trojan War, he needs support from Achilles and the Myrmidons. Achilles is also aware of this, but views the disrespect of Agamemnon taking his war prize, Briseis, as an insult to his rank and status as a king. He views this personal slight as reason enough to leave the war, despite knowing that his fellow countrymen will suffer because of the decision. Agamemnon views that he is also owed a war prize and that taking Achilles' prize is owed to him as the supreme Commander in Chief and king of Mykonos. Homer takes this response to Achilles' rage not only to show the high tension of the Greek camp but also to show the importance of kleos, glory, to the Greek kings. They viewed their conquest as a point of pride, and for them to be denied a prize for their conquest was seen as a devaluing of their skills in war. It was a slight for one king to receive a prize and another not to. Homer uses this passage to highlight how much the Greeks valued kleos, or pride and glory, above everything else. Achilles feels he was disrespected by Agamemnon, who threatened to take his prize from him, and the cost of that threat to his kleos is worth the loss of the war. Agamemnon similarly feels his kleos is worth more than winning the war with Achilles, the strongest of the Greek fighters. Nowhere in The Iliad is this annunciated more than in this tense moment of two Greek kings clashing in their fight for kleos. The Trojan War is itself a fight for kleos between Paris, who can not stand to lose Helen, and Menelaus, who is slighted by his wife being stolen from him. This passage in itself is a small-scale, simplified view of the overall Trojan war; it is a battle between two kings for the ownership of a woman. Neither of these women has a say in the decision of their fate, but the clash between these kings for the glory of owning them is pushing blame onto them for moving between the two. Briseis is blamed for causing Achilles' rage to pull him from the fight, and Helen is blamed for leaving Menelaus for Troy. Homer is showing on a small scale the ramifications and human cost of what this fight for kleos can result in, but he is also showing how the story can then be twisted to place the blame away from the kings who cause the strife and onto the women who are treated as collateral damage because of the men who own their bodies.