The only thing college has given me is a stutter.

If you've ever spoken to me, you probably notice that I stumble over my words more often than I can speak clearly.

Whether I start to say one word and then I stumble into another, or I combine two words together that don't belong, or even if I just stutter over the first few letters of a simple word.

Generally I'm not too bad -- generally people can understand what I'm saying, they gloss over the misstep as if it'll only happen once or twice. But it continues.

It doesn't happen all of the time, some days are clearer than others. But it still happens and frankly, at 20 years of age, it's a little embarrassing.

I didn't have a stutter when I graduated from high school. I could articulate everything quite well, in both English and Spanish.

Now I stumble over "How was your weekend" and "Esta presentación es de dos castillo."

Somewhere between graduation and orientation I lost my ability to speak clearly and I'm still not exactly how. Maybe it's the pressure of graduation into the adult life, or the pressure of class and work, or the fact that I'm about to be 40 thousand dollars in debt for the rest of my life.

Maybe it's pressing down on parts of my brain that let me speak up and speak my mind, maybe it's just twisting my tongue.

Either way, at the rate it's going, I'll graduate and walk into an interview and stumble over my name.