Q: What is your best memory from Spanish Honors Society and Plainfield East in general?

A: Well, for Spanish Honors Society, we have this main general meeting where we were all working together for National Foreign Language Week. I was in charge of coming up with the trivia questions, and so I had a group of people, we were just kind of bouncing ideas off of each other. It was just nice to see everybody engaged in the conversation of how to get people more excited about the Spanish language and the culture around it. In general, I guess I’d say having fun with my friends and learning in different classes different and interesting things.

Q: Why did you choose to have a leadership role?

A: At first, it was one of the ways to do your volunteer hours, but also I kind of wanted to have a little more impact in the way Spanish was talked about in the school or thought about.

Q: Do you think your impact has helped?

A: Yeah, because I came up with a few ideas… the signs around for the Duolingo contest, that was one of my ideas.

Q: What will you miss about high school?

A: I guess just seeing the people I was used to seeing and my friends everyday basically.

Q: How has Spanish Honors Society changed your perspective or experience at Plainfield East?

A: Well, I was mostly surprised when I joined about how many people that aren’t usually thought of as speaking Spanish joined the club. I thought that was interesting and a little more eye-opening that there’s a lot more people than I would’ve thought of as speaking Spanish.

Q: What are your plans for the future?

A: Right now I’m undecided for where I’m going to college, but as of right now I want to do a double major in computer science and neuroscience and eventually become a medical researcher.

Update: She will be attending Wheaton College

Q: Why those majors?

A: Basically neuroscience comes from I just really like knowing how the human body works, and because the brain and all things relating to it is still unknown to us, like we’ve learned more about it in the last ten years than the last thousand years about the brain. Computer science comes from my parents putting me in this coding class, where I just really enjoyed typing stuff out and something would appear on the screen. It also has to do with this Youtuber that I watch that added his own things into the game.

Q: What was one thing that got you through high school?

A: Knowing my end goals and that it was going to be worth it in the end. Just going through stuff and working hard to get good grades.

Q: What advice would you give the underclassmen?

A: Always remember that your actions have consequences, because freshman year I would have told myself to work harder for things and don’t regret things in the future, especially because you don’t want your GPA to stop you from getting into college or doing something you want.