This chapter focuses on the research participants’ evolving experiences of identity as they advanced through college, drawing on selected insights from social theory, and particularly the view that identity, or self-identity, constitutes an internal narrative, as discussed by Giddens (Modernity and self-identity: Self and society in the late modern age. Stanford University Press, 1991). On the basis of examples from both the students’ academic writing and social experiences, I explore key moments of identity work—that is, instances when they chose to define themselves for others, possibly by sharing personal commitments, taking stances, or signaling their own positions in response dominant belief systems. Throughout the chapter, these moments are framed as ongoing negotiations with elements of a new context, a university in the U.S., and, simultaneously, elements of their home cultures. In the last section, I emphasize the importance of recognizing the space between students’ internal beliefs about the self—how they narrate their lives at any given moment—and the external performances that they curate for specific audiences.