Living in New York City was a dream come true. While visiting for the first time during college, I instantly knew that it was a place where I wanted to live, work, and create (instead of attending grad school as I was planning). Something about the city excited me and challenged me in a way that I never had experienced before. The pace of the street traffic made me want to go, go, go and seeing hundreds, maybe thousands of people in such a small space looking like they all had somewhere important to go, made me want to have ...