Ironically enough, I came to Penn all the way from Athens to study philosophy, politics, and economics. Graduating a semester early in December 2014, I am looking forward to applying to intersectional graduate programs in theory. During my junior year, my perspective shifted radically while participating in the Undergraduate Humanities Forum as a Mellon Fellow in the 2013–2014 Forum on Violence. This ignited my desire to think critically about the “techniques of the self” as they unfolded throughout the history of western thought. This year my project on Schelling’s essay On the Essence of Human Freedom for UHF addresses the relation of the tragic with the presentation of self in early antiquity. One of the most significant aspects of my Penn education has been being a member of the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP), where I learned how to be a part of community struggles and how to work with movements organizing for concrete victories.