“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it – that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. 这是有道理的。 我们不是名词，而是动词。 I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun,” Stephen Fry, English actor, director and writer. 

“I just think that's the most beautiful thing ever,” Jennifer Bucci said about Fry’s quote. “I’m living life as what I’m doing, like being a verb, not necessarily being a noun and limiting myself to a specific thing.” 

Bucci, a University of Nebraska at Kearney 国际学生 from Toronto, Ontario, Canada will graduate this May from the online 高等教育学生事务硕士 程序. This will be Bucci’s second master’s degree from the U.S. and she has no plans to stop living her life as a verb.

划（动词）：用桨推动船。 

“It's definitely been quite the journey,” Bucci said. “I grew up playing baseball with the boys my whole life. I switched in about grade 11 to play softball and try to get recruited to come down to the states.” 

然后电话从密歇根东部打来，但不是垒球比赛，而是赛艇比赛。  

“I didn't even know how to swim at the time,” Bucci recalled. “I thought it was a joke. 我和教练们谈了好几次，然后去进行了正式访问。 他们给我的钱最多，所以我想，为什么不呢？ One thing led to another, and I was there for six years.” 

在进入大学赛艇队之前，布奇从未参加过这项运动，这是招募大学赛艇队的常见做法。 Six years later, two undergraduate degrees in psychology and public relations, a master’s degree in human resources, one overturned boat, and lots of memories later, Bucci still doesn’t know how to swim.

Travel（动词）：继续或仿佛在旅行或旅行。 

虽然Bucci是一名国际学生，但她在东密歇根大学上学时住的地方离家乡只有200英里。 她决定搬到太阳城娱乐官网，这使她和家人之间的距离增加了880英里。 

Bucci decided to attend 太阳城娱乐官网 after working for Eastern Michigan’s campus recreation center for four years. 在此期间，她对校园娱乐和与大学生一起工作产生了热情。 

“I applied for honestly any campus recreation graduate assistant job I saw online,” Bucci admitted with a laugh. “After several interviews, I really connected with Andrew Winscot, the assistant director at 太阳城娱乐官网 Campus Rec. That combined with knowing the emphasis that Andrew put on student development was huge.” 

布奇把她的东西装进一辆U-Haul卡车，开了13个多小时的车来到太阳城娱乐官网的科尔尼。 当她的目的地接近时，她发现自己被许多英里的田野和牲畜所孤立。  

“I've never lived in any place like Nebraska before,” Bucci said. “I've obviously driven past farms and cornfields and cows, but I never actually saw a cow close-up until I moved here, which is super cool. 我搬来这里之前从没听过牛叫。 I've had the coolest experiences outside my comfort zone.” 

Adventure（动词）：从事危险和刺激的活动，尤指对未知领域的探索。  

“The past couple of years in Nebraska have been life changing and I'm definitely living out all those adventures I've wanted to. Someone compared me to a kid in a candy shop,” Bucci said. 

Bucci抓住了她在太阳城娱乐官网的两年里提供的每一个冒险机会。 Through 太阳城娱乐官网's Campus Rec she has co-led a backpacking trip through the Appalachian Trail in Georgia and began rock climbing, facing her massive fear of heights head-on. In fact, if you could see Bucci’s mirror at home it would read, “Practice volunteer discomfort.” 

“I think that's so important and that is honestly the reason why I climb,” Bucci said. “A lot of people ask me if I like climbing and I wouldn't say I like it. 我现在开始做得更多了，但我喜欢它给你的挑战。 我认为如果你不成长，你就会死去。 So, I really try to find ways to push myself and grow.” 

Bucci还在校园娱乐活动之外寻求冒险，她已经去过美国近40个州，她希望能访问美国的每一个州以及加拿大的每一个省和地区。 

“Most of the weekends I've just been jetting off trying to maximize my time,” Bucci said. “I'm very aware of my finite time here, so I try to maximize everything that I have. 甚至当我步行去科尔尼公共图书馆时，我也只是看看所有的东西，试图把它们都吸收进去，因为我知道我的时间有限。 我想很多国际学生可能都有同感。 我希望更多的国内学生能够思考一下这个问题，因为每个人的时间都是有限的。 I think living in the moment is huge.” 

欣赏（动词）：领会…的性质、价值、品质或意义。 

“’Nebraska Nice’ is something I never heard of until I moved out here, but I believe it wholeheartedly,” Bucci said. “I think the people I've met here have been some of the most genuine, down to earth, and kindhearted people I've ever met.” 

Bucci经历了太阳城娱乐官网与她的太阳城娱乐官网教授，同学，校园娱乐人员，社区成员和其他国际学生参加太阳城娱乐官网。

“The international community here is amazing. I have really enjoyed getting to connect with people from all over the world,” Bucci said. “In Michigan, we had a large 国际学生 body for sure, but here it just seems very close knit, which I've loved.”

Bucci plans to head home to Toronto after her May graduation to spend some much-needed time with family but says leaving Kearney is “bittersweet.”

“There's a lot to look forward to, but there's also a lot of endings,” Bucci explained. “I'm trying to think of it more as see you laters and not goodbyes. I am pretty confident I'll find my way back here one way or another.”