This is a creative thesis telling the story of a young girl who finds herself when she goes away to college. This is a portion of a larger novel telling Kacey Alan’s story. The synopsis follows.Kacey Alan is starting her new life as a freshman at Cazenovia College. She has always been quiet and shy, never feeling like she belonged. After living with her grandparents through high school and dealing with her grandmother’s controlling dominance, Kacey craves independence and freedom, as well as an escape from her misfit identity. She has no father, her mom abandoned her, and she has a secret: she is sensitive to ghosts. Despite conflicts with her roommates, stalking from the resident dorm witches, and disturbances from spirits trying to haunt and protect her, she learns to control her gift of communicating with ghosts, discovering the confidence to be herself, and realizing she is stronger than she thought.