"It absolutely never occurred to me that it was possible to leave my state to go to college. The furthest a, even going to college seemed like going a very far way," she says. "My big dream wasn't like, let's get our kids to harvard and yale,. Like, i never, like, thels dodn't even seem like real places to me." She only applied to one school: 'I was overwhelmed of thinking like, Going to university of saint thomas and saint paul seems too big'