What’s the best advice you’ve received and from whom?

My parents have always told me to never forget to give credit where credit is due. No one can be a great leader or even a great friend unless they can learn to acknowledge their peers, thereby earning their respect.

If your high school career were a song, what would it be and why?

“Upside Down” by Jack Johnson. It’s strange because that song was written for the Curious George movie, but the lyrics I think really do describe the way I tried to live my high school career. For example, one verse goes, “Who’s to say, what’s impossible. Well they forgot, this world keeps spinning. And with each new day, I can feel a change in everything. And as the surface breaks reflections fade, but in some ways they remain the same. And as my mind begins to spread its wings, there’s no stopping curiosity. I want to turn the whole thing upside down, I’ll find the things they say just can’t be found.” I was a fairly focused student, but I had a tendency to get distracted by my ongoing fascination with the world around me. I think the song really encapsulates my desire in high school to make seemingly mundane topics interesting and fun and never think that learning was limited to simply the classroom.

What are you looking forward to most at college (and which college)?

I am going to Dartmouth next year, and I am definitely most looking forward to living in a small, cozy town like Hanover. I figure I will inevitably live in a big city once I am an adult since that’s where most of the job market is, so why not spend my college years in a small town that I would not otherwise get to experience?

If your high school mascot fought your college mascot, who would win?

Considering Dartmouth’s mascot is a field (the Big Green) and Greenhill’s is a hornet, I don’t think there’s much of a contest there since fields can’t move to defend themselves. On a side note, however, since a field can’t technically feel a hornet’s sting, then maybe it would win by default?

How will you change the world?

Let me get through undergrad first, and then I will let you know.

Are you friends with your parents on Facebook?

Haha, I don’t have one.