SNAPSHOTS
One place you want to visit: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Favorite artist: Lauryn Hill
Favorite movie: “The Hunger Games”
Morning or night: Morning
Winter or summer: Summer
ZOOMING IN
Q: What college will you attend? What is your intended major, and why that major?
A: “I’ve decided to go to The University of Southern California. I’m going to study biochemistry, and I want to go into genetic cancer research because I’ve been personally impacted by a family member’s death from cancer. Beyond that, I think modern cancer research and studies are really skewed. If we changed our perspective slightly toward cancer, instead of trying to treat it itself, we could see fewer deaths. We could save 100,000 lives every year, and I would love to be a part of it. I also want to minor in political science and eventually run for senate in whatever state.”
Q: What extracurriculars have you been involved in throughout high school?
A: “I’ve worked for four years. Outside of that, I play club baseball. I’ve been in the National Honors Society since sophomore year,and I’m in the President’s Club as well”.
Q: What was the most challenging aspect about balancing extracurriculars and academics?
A: “Definitely having peace and understanding. I have to make sacrifices to find the success I want to have, not only in the classroom and on the field, but also with my friendships and clubs.”
Q: What class was the most challenging for you? Why?
A: “The hardest class I took in high school was AP Precalculus my sophomore year. It was my first year it was taught ever at our campus, so that might have been part of it. I don’t think I had developed a work ethic yet my sophomore year and that class really taught me what I needed to do to have success in high school.”
Q: Who has helped you the most throughout these last four years? How have they helped you?
A: “Her name is Tiana Harvey. That’s my best friend. She has helped me out because she’s in the top 20. She’s super smart, she’s a NHS officer, she’s involved in Students Against Period Poverty, and cosmetology. She’s really encouraged me to buckle down and get my work done and honestly just have mutual success. In the Bible, there’s a proverb that reads “iron sharpens iron,” and I’m just super grateful for having her in my life. We’ve really worked hard with each other, therefore we’ve produced so much for each other.”
Q: What has been the most memorable part of high school?
A: “Definitely baseball. Baseball has been a big part of my four years. My favorite baseball memory comes from my freshman year when we beat Marcus for the first time in a long time, and I was a winning run that game. And that’s so cool to me, and to this day, it’s one of the coolest things I’ve done.”
Q: What advice would you give to your freshman self?
A: “I would tell him to work harder in AP Human Geography because I got an 80 in that class, and that single handedly ruined my 4.0 GPA. I would say just to relax a little bit I would also say to relax a bit. I feel like I stressed out a lot in high school and missed out on some opportunities. I know it’s all going to work out. God has a plan.
Q: What are you most excited about regarding college?
A: “Going to college for sure, exploring the world. I lived in Lewisville my entire life, so I’m really excited to go to a school like Tulane, which is in New Orleans, or The University of Southern California in Los Angeles. I’ll be able to see what the world has to offer outside of this town in Texas. I’m super grateful for the city but I know there’s more out there.”
Q: What would you change about your high school experience?
A: “I would try and be a little more involved in other clubs. I want to try to branch out from my comfort zone.”
Q: Where do you hope to see yourself in 10 years?
A: “I’ll be 28 in 10 years, so hopefully I’ll have my doctorate, work at a tier one research institution and change lives.”
