I stepped off the plane at the end of August, overflowing with anxiety from head to toe. As a Northern Ontarian who’d rarely strayed far from my hometown and who had only been to Toronto twice in my childhood, I’d somehow developed the inspiration to apply to Centennial College and move to the Greater Toronto Area—and this was a terrifying decision. Full of a swirling turmoil of homesickness and anticipation, I went from a born-and-raised resident of Thunder Bay to a student trying to find their place on the Danforth.