"I can do anything anyone else can do, I just have to do things a little bit differently," Stenger says. The disorder left her with no sensory nervous system. She was born with no sense of pain, temperature or touch.

Stenger originally attended Immaculata College in eastern Pennsylvania. Because of the size of the school, they were unable to fully attend to Kim's needs as a disabled student.

"They tried," Stenger says. "They did the best they could. They don't receive state money because they are a private school. Size was also a factor. There was not a large enough population of students who needed help, therefore there was not enough students for an attendant care program."

Stenger's family moved to Ohio two years into her education at Immaculate College. She chose to transfer to Kent State because of the services it offered.

"If I'm going to make such a change in my life, I might as well go the whole way and get exposed to opportunity," she says. "I wanted the opportunity to be exposed to different types of people and learn how to take care of myself and not depend on someone else as much."