It’s the city that I have called home for the past three years, and is the same city that has seen both at my best and at my worst. Philadelphia has a very special place in my heart, and I can’t imagine the person I would have become without it. From the rough streets and bordered up houses of North Philly, to the incredibly posh row homes in Rittenhouse, this city has truly become my city,

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I first decided to make Philadelphia my home in March of 2009 after a campus visit over Spring Break. I was already accepted to five school including Temple, but for some reason, I was drawn to this highly underrated and often overlooked city in the east. Whether it was the superior academics at Temple, the rough charm of the people, or the trash-laden streets, we will never know for sure. What I do know is that I would defend this city to the death, for it has brought me some of my favorite memories and some of the best experiences of my life.

Thanks to my strange schedule, however, I have not until now spent a summer in this great city. Although it will only by part time thanks to my internship at J.P. Morgan in Newark, Delaware, I believe that this city deserves a spotlight in this travel blog. It is the first place I have learned to call home away from Colorado, it is where majority of my closest friends reside, and it has changed me into sassy, assertive, sometimes bitchy, east coaster…. And I wouldn’t want it any other way.