Self-identity and personal expression take many forms. For example, music, clothing, politics, extracurricular interests, and ethnicity can each be a defining attribute. Do you surf or tinker? Are you a vegetarian poet who loves Ayn Rand? Do you prefer YouTube or test tubes? Are you preppie or Goth? Use the richness of your life to give us insight: what voice will you add to the Class of 2014?
I don't know how the overachieving high school student got into punk rock, but stranger things have happened. I like its message—punk, despite its vagrant, snotty image, secretly carries on a noble tradition that fueled the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the American Revolution: free thought. In that sense, the American's and the anarchist's dream can coincide perfectly. I refuse to believe anything unless it makes logical sense to me. Two concepts I do hold dear are my faith in a higher power and the status of dance as one of the world’s finest sports. I also adhere to an indefatigable support of the truth from whatever sources it may come. Such various statements of clarity sometimes end up scribbled on my sneakers, which is where Horace, Emerson, and the band Alkaline Trio are quoted next to each other in black ink. In search of this “veritas,” I read too much for my own good, but not enough that I don't wish I had an extra hour in the day to spend with John Steinbeck or Charlotte Bronte. Above all, I love to find humor in the small, true moments of life, and to lead others to do the same.
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