Georgetown University

Cynefin: a Welsh word for a place where a being feels it ought to be; it is where nature feels right and welcoming. It is both a concept that gets right to the heart of my cultural roots and an expression of my first experience at Georgetown. It was a chilly but beautiful autumn day; the heated, yet compassionate debates and cozy atmosphere of the campus warded off the cold. There were no words to describe my feelings—in English. However, later on, I connected those ineffable emotions to cynefin. To me, Georgetown has the potential to vault me to self-actualization, the all-encompassing…