Hometown: Minneapolis, MN

Interests, Clubs, and Sports: Fall and Spring Crew, Speech, LCA, Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur, Chess Club, the Vedette, Global Studies Institute

Volunteer Activities: Relay for Life, volunteer tutor as Kumon, Mission Trip to Central Europe

Favorite Class: AP Biology

Favorite Place to Study: Enclosed spaces. I like the study rooms in the library.

Favorite aspect of Culver: Building intimate, meaningful relationships. And, of course, the array of unparalleled opportunities

Last Summer's Adventures: I attended a 3-week long camp hosted by Johns Hopkins' Center for Talented Youth, affectionately dubbed "Nerd Camp". I took a course entitled "The Critical Essay: Popular Culture". We examined cultural myth in Star Trek, American ad cult and the sociopolitical impact of Lady Gaga. We also drank lots of organic strawberry milk.

Top 3 goals for this school year: To maintain a 4.0 GPA, to be a good human being, and to pursue intellectual passions

"I just want to put a ding in the universe." -Steve Jobs, 1955-2011