Here are 25 fun facts that demonstrate my unique personality:
1. I rapped my speech when I campaigned for senior class secretary of my high school. It gained laughs and applause. The speech was in poem-form, with every line rhyming. It took me an average of 2 minutes to recite the entire thing.
2. May 2016, I sent in headshots and body shots of myself to the casting agency for Fast and the Furious 8, and was surprised to receive a reply to my email saying that I was booked as an extra for a day. However, I made the mistake of telling the agency several days for availability, and one of those days was when I had mandatory high school graduation rehearsal. Missing the rehearsal was not an option for me; it would hurt me as well as my fellow seniors who were practicing. Sadly, I could not be involved in the filming, but it would have been great to be in the movie!
3. I do not eat seafood, not because of an allergy, but simply because they taste appalling to me. I can, however, eat seaweed chips! They’re a salty, crispy, thin snack.
4. I grew up watching Barney, Caillou, Sagwa the Siamese Cat, Cyberchase, Dragon Tales, Arthur, and much more PBS shows! Scooby Doo is my ultimate favorite children’s show, with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles coming close behind. I never watched SpongeBob.
5. My first dream job position was a mermaid; I was inspired after watching several movies with mermaids in them (Peter Pan, etc.)
6. Writing, as you can tell, is a hobby of mine, and I plan to do so for as long as I can! It is an outlet for me and a chance for me to reach a wide audience. I’ve won cash prizes for writing contests and for one contest, I was able to get a personal tour of the Cleveland medical examiner’s office!
7. I love eating crème brulees and vanilla-flavored desserts.
8. Skills I want to learn include whistling, snapping my fingers, and rolling my R’s.
9. I am a multimodal learner – I study in various ways, depending on the context and subject matter. For example, I color-coordinate my folders and notebooks. For my Medical Sociology class, I used a pink folder and pink notebook and pink highlighters/gel pens to write the headings and major concepts. When it’s time for finals, I write a study plan for my tests (what chapters would be covered, what concepts are most important, and how many days I would study leading up to the final, as well as how many hours I would plan to study.)
10. Things I keep on my desk are my lamp, a stapler, writing utensils, post-it notes, my laptop and its sleeve, lotion, water bottle, planner, and phone.
11. I always bring around with me a bottle of hand sanitizer, packs of tissues, a water bottle, and a pack of gum. In class one time, I was the only one who had scissors in handy for an activity, and the teacher announced that I was prepared. In my dorm, I keep around a sewing kit, first-aid kit, tape, scissors, cleaning wipes, and more. Sometimes if my working area is too disorderly, I have to clean it up or it’ll bother me and I cannot focus on my schoolwork!
12. I have one sibling, a brother, who is 494 days younger than me. He’s coming to OSU as well (OSU 2021).
13. Ten songs from my extremely diverse playlist are:
– Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling in Love
– No Doubt – Don’t Speak
– Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?
– Twenty One Pilots – Truce
– Sia – The Greatest
– Red Hot Chili Peppers – Snow
– EXO – Moonlight ( a K-pop song!)
– One Direction – You & I
– G-Eazy and Kehlani – Good Life
– Drake – Trust Issues
Check some of these songs out if you have not heard some of them before.
14. I attended two concerts in Columbus so far, and I had never gone to a concert before college! The first one was in September and Kesha performed! I loved it and it was free! The second was in January with a band called Starset with opening acts: Liberty Deep Down, Harmless Habit, and 8 lbs under pressure.
15. Favorite on-campus eateries: Union Market (pasta, burgers, salads, sushi and more) and Sloopy’s Diner
Favorite off-campus eateries: Chipotle, Condado’s Tacos
16. Movies I have seen at the Gateway Film Center on OSU’s South Campus are Suicide Squad and the Lego Batman Movie. I recommend these movies!
17. Where do I sit in class? Is there a right place to sit?
For some classes, I sit in the same seat I always do, without fail. For larger lecture classes, I sometimes sit in the second row from the front, while other times I am in the very back.
There is a piece of advice for students to sit in the front so the professor gets to know you and your face, and also so you do not get distracted by other students. However, I have gotten A’s in my classes when I sit in the back. It may help to sit in the front, but for me, it does not hurt to be in the back.
18. I did not learn how to tie shoes until I was 18, a senior in high school. It’s surprising to people who hear this – they exclaim “No way, you are joking” but this is the truth.
19. I enjoy getting e-mails and regular mail.
20. I always prefer sleeping in the bottom bunk of the bunk bed. I hate climbing the ladders.
21. The first time I flew on a plane was December 2016, when I was 18. It was a thrilling time but I was anxious most of the way!
22. I have not ventured out of America yet. In 2018, I plan to go to China to change that.
23. I like routine. I went to the same elementary school from K-8 and the same high school from 9-12. And I tend to order the same things on a menu over and over again.
24. I pronounced Vaseline as “Vase-sa-leen” all my life but apparently the correct pronunciation is “vass-a-leen”.
25. My favorite board games would be Life, Mousetrap, Sorry, and Monopoly. I never cheat at games but my sibling always did.
