What do you aspire to?

“I am aspiring to be a nurse! It’s been a dream I’ve had since high school and I think that helping and individually impacting people is a great way to help the world in its entirety.
I think that when you help people individually, you can possibly help someone change a bit of how they go about their daily life, and if you do that more and more, you really start to make an impact. I think that’s a better way, at least for me, to help the world than trying to do something big or grand.”

How did you develop that mindset?

“It’s actually something I’ve been thinking about a lot more recently. I’ve been looking at why I like to do what I like to do.
For a while, I volunteered at a camp for people with disabilities and just knowing how much that experience meant to them and how it changed them and myself as people really influenced me to work on a smaller scale.”

What inspires you the most to keep doing what you’re doing?

“I’m inspired by the fact that there’s always a possibility for just one person to make a difference in the world.”

– Kacie Baltes

Beneath The Crown was created by Nick Theisen (‘15). It is inspired by Humans of New York (HONY) and aims to bring the community of Gustavus Adolphus College closer together by providing the perspectives of the many different people who live and work at the school.