Q: What are three words to describe you?

A: Caring, friendly, and hopefully funny.

Q: What is a talent that you have had since childhood?

A: I think running. I’m not the best runner in the world, but I’ve always just been good at it. I’ve liked to run since middle school, and even before that, with Girls on the Run.

Q: What is your favorite weird snack?

A: Definitely pickles, on their own, just snacking.

Q: What is something you’ve always wanted to learn how to do?

A: I want to learn how to get better at crocheting because all I can make right now is a square, so I’ve made a blanket and a bag, but I want to learn how to make stuffed animals.

Q: What was your favorite age growing up?

A: 16 because it was so exciting with things like getting my license, and that was before junior year, when classes got hard.

Q: What has been your favorite music recently?

A: I’ve been listening to Tyler the Creator’s new album Chromakopia, because I got tickets to the concert in Cincinnati.

Q: What was the last show you watched?

A: It’s called “No Body Wants Tthis,” with a Rabbi who falls in love with a podcaster. I would watch it at the gym on the stairmaster. It wasn’t really great, but it was interesting.

Q: What is your biggest pet peeve?

A: Oh my gosh. When people are [talking] on the phone when I am driving because I can’t do anything, I’m just stuck there driving. If they aren’t on the speaker phone then I can’t hear what they are talking about, and I can’t play music because that’s rude. It’s not a big deal but it’s just sort of a pet peeve.

Q: In a perfect world, what would your birthday look like?

A: Spending the day with my friends and my family. Probably waking up and having a nice breakfast then going out to a good, Italian dinner at night, and then having a sleepover with my friends and maybe doing a fun activity like pottery painting; no school. Oh, and shopping with my mom because my birthday is on Black Friday.

Q: Where is one place you are dying to go?

A: Hawaii. I think it is so gorgeous and I really love the beach and warm weather. I saw everyone who posted about it for the choir trip and it looked so fun!

Q: Do you collect anything?

A: I have trinkets all around my room to the point where I don’t have room for anymore. Most of them are gifts from my grandma or from places I go when I travel.

Q: Who are your biggest role models?

A: My mom is my biggest role model because I think she did such a great job raising me and my siblings. One thing that I’m really looking forward to is being a mother myself, so I want to raise my children how I was raised.

Q: What is something you wish more people knew about you?

A: Probably how dedicated I am in what I do because that applies to anything, but especially running [cross country].

Q: What are three objects that represent you?

A: A crochet hook, running shoes, and then a shopping bag.

Q: What is your favorite homemade meal/treat?

A: My grandma makes this chocolate Ttexas sheet cake. It’s basically a huge homemade cake in a pan. Or her angel food cake, that’s also so good.

Q: If you had to retake one class at East, which would it be?

A: Definitely ceramics III. I love ceramics so much, it is my favorite class ever, and I love Ms. Rahe. I just made a bust of a cat in class, but I still have to glaze it. I also did a tic tac toe board that looks like a waffle with butter and blueberries as the markers.

Q: What future plans do you have?

A: So I want to go to Xavier to become a nurse, graduate, get engaged, get married, and travel. Then I want to have two children and work part time. I want to travel to Hawaii, Europe, or somewhere I can use my Spanish.

Q: Do you remember your first day at Main Campus?

A: I remember it was a huge campus, and this is weird, but I remember losing one of my fake nails.

Q: What is your favorite memory from East?

A: Friday night team dinners with the cross country team were so fun. Every Friday night during cross country season we would go to [a team member’s] house for dinner.

Q: Was there a teacher or staff member that had a profound impact on your time here?

A: Mrs. Rahe because I really like the attitude she has while teaching her class. She is very nice and sweet to everyone; that is how I want to be.

Q: What is the best piece of advice you have been given, that you will take with you?

A: You’re the only person that is always going to be by your side.’ I think my mom told me that. What she meant was that you can’t always rely on others for everything and you have to be the one to stick up for yourself and advocate for yourself.

Q: What is something you would change about East?

A: That the chromebooks wouldn’t restrict websites that are helpful for my classes. Especially in the Sports Med classes where they ask us to Google an injury and everything is blocked by the browser.

Q: What is something you wish you would have done more of in high school?

A: Probably just participating in more clubs. Due to cross country I felt like I couldn’t miss any practices to go to clubs. I realized that that shouldn’t have been my only priority, like being late to two practices a week wouldn’t have been the end of the world.

Q: What are you most excited to do this summer?

A: To spend a lot of time with my friends until we all separate for college and to work so I’m not broke in college.

Q: What is your advice to rising seniors?

A: My biggest advice to juniors is to start your Common App (college application service) the summer before senior year, because as much as you don’t want to do your applications during the summer, you’re not going to want to do them when you are busy during school.