As a freshman, I was disappointed to find that my high school did not have a Model UN club, so I decided to create one myself. I spent the majority of my sophomore year filling out paperwork and finding a sponsor, but it all paid off in junior year when I got to hold my first meeting. Finally in senior year we went to our first conference at American University with the club executive board, pictured on the left at the train station before going to DC.

Two years ago I went to the Cayman Islands with my family and got to experience some of the local culture and food. We went to Rum Point and got to swim with stingrays, see starfish, and get a tour of the island and its history. One of the places we stopped at was a town called Hell, which was given its name because of the odd grey rocks that take up almost all of the town, giving it a cavernous and otherworldly feel, as pictured to the right.

One of my favorite teachers I have ever had was my biology teacher, Mrs. Dietsch. When she was working on her third masters degree, she selected a few of her best students to help her with her required research, and I was one of the chosen few. Every day we would look at the health of brine shrimp exposed to different household chemicals, and counted how many in each sample petri dish had died that day, and organized the data in a spreadsheet. The picture included is me and two of the other helpers along with our teacher and a few of our other classmates before graduation.

 My first scholars event was the Columbus Clippers baseball game, where I met two of my now good friends and learned more about the type of community the scholars program at Ohio State could offer.