Senior Spotlight

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Thomas Le
This is his second year of tutoring at the Writing Center.
 
Favorites

Color: Black, white, blue, and rainbow

Artist/Band: A healthy mixture of trashy pop music - Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, etc.

Actor and Actress: Leonardo Di'Caprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carey Mulligan

Movie: An Education, Titanic, Jane Eyre

Book: Too many to list... To Kill a Mockingbird, The Mortal Instruments series, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, East of Eden, the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy, The Help, etc.

Planet: Earth!

Animal: Flamingo

Clothing Store: The William and Mary bookstore

Olympic Sport (Summer and Winter): Tennis

Subject: English and Psychology

Questions

1. What college will you be attending (or hoping to attend)?
William and Mary - Tribe Pride!

2. What are you planning to study/major in?
English/Psychology/Creative Writing/Education

3. What are you most looking forward to about college?
Freedom in all forms, especially the ability to explore intellectual areas of inquiry I have never experienced before

4. What will you miss most about high school?
Seher Raza

5. How has being a WWC tutor affected your own writing?
It has ameliorated my writing by large amounts; I've been able to reevaluate my writing process through helping others with their writing. I've been surrounded with a fantastic support system of writers and tutors, and tutoring has introduced me to types of writing I have never seen before.

6. If you were an ice cream, what flavor would you be and why?
Cookies & Cream mixed with Fudge mixed with Cookie Dough mixed with love topped with rainbow sprinkles

7. If you could be best friends with any celebrity who would it be and why?
 Nonliving celebrities would include Harvey Milk and Rosa Parks, as they were both instrumental to the expansion of human rights and were people I would genuinely like to know. Living celebrities would include Harper Lee and Jodi Picoult as they are two of my favorite writers and I would love to discuss literature with them.

Senior Spotlight

Jennifer Lee
This is her first year of tutoring.

Favorites

Color: Pink

Artist/Band: Everything (:

Actor and Actress: Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock, Taylor Lautner, Ryan Gosling, and Chris Evans

Movie: The Notebook, The Proposal, Cinderella, The Lucky One, The Avengers

Book: Great Expectations, The Great Gatsby, Grapes of Wrath

Planet: Saturn

Animal: Giraffe

Clothing Store: jcrew

Olympic Sport (Summer and Winter): Figure skating

Subject: Math

Questions

1. What college will you be attending (or hoping to attend)?
George Washington University

2. What are you planning to study/major in?
Pre-Dental

3. What are you most looking forward to about college?
I'm looking forward to the new types of people that I'll meet next year and the new foods and environment I'll be able to explore.

4. What will you miss most about high school?
The great friendships that I've built over the years; the moments where I can look at an old friend and know that we're thinking the same thing without speaking a word.

5. How has being a WWC tutor affected your own writing?
Being a wildcat writting center tutor has help me gain confidence about my writing by being able to give others advice their writting and by me giving them advice I feel that my writting has improved.

6. If you were an ice cream, what flavor would you be and why?
Pistachio ice cream or butter peacan beacuse I love the crunch married with the silky smooth ice cream; its a two in one.

7. If you could be best friends with any celebrity who would it be and why?
Ellen DeGeneres

Senior Spotlight

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Rebekah Lee
This is her third year of tutoring in the writing center.

Favorites
 
Color: Olive
Artist/Band: The Cab
Actor and Actress: Dylan O'Brien and Tina Fey
Movie: Tangled
Book: The Chosen by Chiam Potak and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Planet: Earth
Animal: Horses
Clothing Store: Madewell
Olympic Sport (Summer and Winter): Beach Volleyball and Figure Skating
Subject: Advanced Composition
 
Questions
 
1. What college will you be attending (or hoping to attend)?
University of Virginia
 
2. What are you planning to study/major in?
Double Major in Sociology and Precom Marketing
 
3. What are you most looking forward to about college?
Meeting new people
 
4. What will you miss most about high school?
My friends
 
5. How has being a WWC tutor affected your own writing?
Being a writing center tutor has helped me become more aware of my own writing process so that I can start and finish my papers quickly. It has also helped me become more direct and concise with my writing- using the least amount of words to convey my message.
 
6. If you were an ice cream, what flavor would you be and why?
Cheesecake Fantasy from Cold Stone because it is my absolute favorite as it has the sweetness from the cheesecake and the tangyness from the berries.
 
7. If you could be best friends with any celebrity who would it be and why?
Tina Fey because she is hilarious and I think we would get along perfectly!