Meet the Student Staff

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

Quote or Philosophy on Life: “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got” 

Something people would find interesting about you: I like to run marathons.

Home City: Worcester, MA

Quote or philosophy on life: “What is meant for you will not pass you.”

Something people would find interesting about you: I can floss with no hands!

Home City: Chicago, IL

Quote or philosophy on life: “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” Something people would find interesting: I have traveled to Spain and Portugal.

Hometown: Columbus, OH

Quote or Philosophy on Life:  “Why is the originality so readily granted us in literature so mistrustfully denied us in our difficult attempts at social change?” Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Solitude of Latin America

Something people would find interesting about you: I went to a Shakespeare festival in Canada sophomore year of high school, but other than that I have never traveled outside of the US.

Home City: South Bronx, NY

Quote or philosophy on life: “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.” -Napoleon Hill

Something people would find interesting about you: I have traveled to six of the seven continents in my lifetime.

Hometown: Chicago, IL

Quote or Philosophy on Life: “We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most.” - Trevor Noah

Something people would find interesting about you: I can whistle through the gap in my teeth.

Hometown:  Austin, TX

Quote or Philosophy on Life:  “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker

Something people would find interesting about you:  I’m good at guessing people’s star signs after having a full conversation.

Hometown: Columbus, OH

Quote or Philosophy on Life:  “Um chile anyways so” - Nicki Minaj (I think this every time someone tries to bring me down in any way)

Something people would find interesting about you: I’m originally from the Philippines and I will not stop talking about it because I love my culture.

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

Quote or Philosophy on Life: If you make a mistake and fail to correct it you have made another.

Something people would find interesting about you: I’m a gamer and a YouTuber. I just live life and have fun living.

Hometown: Chicago, IL

Quote or Philosophy on Life: “Success is not final, and failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Something people would find interesting about you: I have traveled to Rome, Paris, and London.

Home City: Columbus, OH

Quote or philosophy on life: “If you stop struggling, then you stop life.” -Huey P. Newton

Something people would find interesting about you: I once received a prestigious student leadership award at a country club.

Home City: Chicago, IL

Quote or philosophy on life: I have never been a calm blue sea, I have always been a storm

Something people would find interesting about you: When I was in 8th grade I won Pi day by memorizing the most digits of Pi!