“In order to grow, you have to be uncomfortable,” says Gensen Rabacal (Leeward, AA ’11), an aspiring English teacher. At Leeward Community College, where “professors and classmates are very family-like,” he pursued his ambition to “share [his] favorite thing” with Hawai‘i’s middle- and high-school students, growing his network and learning that it’s okay to have a life.
“Be open to whatever possibilities are out there,” he advises. “You never know who is going to help you with the next steps.”