My name is Lily  and I a freshman living in New Jersey. Reading and writing represent to me the idea of being completely limitless. Where other aspects of my life can be painfully restrictive, writing and reading are utterly infinite, edgeless, and unending in what I can produce and discover within myself. Whether I am flipping through the pages of science fiction paperbacks or obsessively scribbling in three-ringed notebooks, I love finding foreign worlds and past centuries to explore. There is something about completely disappearing into a character or concept that I find extremely liberating. Writing and reading symbolize a rare mixture of productive escapism, a mentality, and an approach that I apply to my everyday life.