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What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. I am Jonathan Levin. I'm a senior international affairs major and I have the honor to serve as a student body president. Post-grad plans, I will be going into the Air Force. Right now I have a pilot slot. So as of right now, we're going to pilot training, but there's another job I'm waiting to hear about, but regardless, I mean, it will be an honor to be an Air Force pilot. So I was never supposed to go to Florida State. My goal was to go to the Air Force Academy since that was the age of 10. And my brother's Air Force, when that was military, I mean, it was kind of just one of those things. This is what I'm doing. It's going to happen. I directed all of my actions towards the Air Force Academy, got the verbal confirmation, got everything in two weeks before graduating high school. I got to denial letter. So I had no housing at FSU. I had no classes. I had no orientation plan, nothing. At that moment in time, I couldn't see the future. So it was more of a hope of like, it'll be OK. It'll work itself out. And now obviously jumping forward four years later, it definitely worked itself out. So I guess my hope now is that the same type of mentality, I don't really know what the future is going to hold for me personally, whether that's being a pilot, whether that's serving 10 years, 20 years, going into whatever direction after that. But I know internally, it will be OK. The biggest takeaway from student leadership is the relationships built. So personally, yes, I've grown as a leader. I've won to mentor Bappy because I had those mentors for myself. I want to make change. I want to influence all those things. But I think the biggest impact that a student leader can get and I've got is those relationships. I am Jonathan Levin. I'm a senior international affairs major. And I have the honors service student body pricing in. You're listening to voices that inspire.