Senior Spotlight

Monday, May 20, 2013


Andy Fang
This is his first year of tutoring in the writing center.

Favorites:

Color: Orange or Yellow

Artist/Band: Any Underground RnB Artist

Actor and Actress: Chris Tucker, Will Smith, Samuel L Jackson, Eddie Murphy, any other 
African American Actor

Movie: I Am Sam, Rush Hour 2, Disney Classics

Book: Bible

Planet: The Earth (it's flat, not round guys; trust me I know)

Animal: Chow Chow

Clothing Store: H&M

Olympic Sport (Summer and Winter): Table Tennis and Short Track Speed Ice Skating

Subject: Leadership Training/Student Government Association


Questions:

1. What college will you be attending (or hoping to attend)? 
The University of Virginia 
"HOOS"

2. What are you planning to study/major in? 
Biosciences

3. What are you most looking forward to about college? 
The learning experience because obviously that's what I'm all about. . . Obviously. . .

4. What will you miss most about high school? 
The forever beautiful and lovely Ms. Hughes

5. How has being a WWC tutor affected your own writing? 
It's made me a better person, and I know how to make myself look better on paper than reality

6. If you were an ice cream, what flavor would you be and why? 
Vanilla and Chocolate because I'm not racist

7. If you could be best friends with any celebrity who would it be and why? 
Jesus and Sydney Dolan

Senior Spotlight

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Labibah Tehreem
This is her second year of tutoring in the writing center.

Favorites:

Color: Purple
 
Artist/Band: The Fugees
 
Actor and Actress: Actor- Matthew Perry; Actress- Julie Andrews
 
Movie: A Walk to Remember
 
Book: The Outsiders
 
Planet: Mars
 
Animal: Tiger
 
Clothing Store: Urban Outfitters
 
Olympic Sport (Summer and Winter): Summer- swimming; Winter- Skating
 
Subject: English
 
 
Questions:
 
1. What college will you be attending (or hoping to attend)?
Virginia Commonwealth University
 
2. What are you planning to study/major in?
Biology...as of right now
 
3. What are you most looking forward to about college?
Starting a new life with new people
 
4. What will you miss most about high school?
My friends
 
5. How has being a WWC tutor affected your own writing?
By tutoring others I have become more conscious towards errors I didn't used to realize in my own work but now do.
 
6. If you were an ice cream, what flavor would you be and why?
I would be vanilla ice cream because basically anything can be added to vanilla and it will still taste good. I am pretty good at adjusting to random circumstances and changes and I love to be spontaneous and original with whatever I do.
 
7. If you could be best friends with any celebrity who would it be and why?
I would be best friends with Matthew Perry because he would never fail to give me a good laugh (if his personality is the same in real life as it is on the show Friends).

Senior Spotlight

Friday, May 10, 2013

Janice Yu
This is her second year of tutoring.

Favorites

Color: Light blue

Artist/Band: Lenka

Actor and Actress: Joseph Gordan Levitt and Anne Hathaway

Movie: Les Miserables

Book: Thirteen Reasons Why

Planet: Earth

Animal: Dogs

Clothing Store: Forever 21

Olympic Sport (Summer and Winter): Summer: swimming. Winter: Ice Skating

Subject: Math

Questions

1. What college will you be attending (or hoping to attend)?
NOVA

2. What are you planning to study/major in?
Communications

3. What are you most looking forward to about college?
Getting an in depth education in something that I'm interested in

4. What will you miss most about high school?
My friends

5. How has being a WWC tutor affected your own writing?
It made me more aware of my mistakes, and it made writing in general much easier because I know what I look for when I am looking at a paper as a tutor.

6. If you were an ice cream, what flavor would you be and why?
Mint Chocolate Ice cream, because it's my favorite flavor!!

7. If you could be best friends with any celebrity who would it be and why?
Ryan Secrest, because he knows so many other celebrities! And he'd be fun to talk to; I'd never be bored!

Senior Spotlight

Friday, May 3, 2013

Anna Rhodes
This is her first year tutoring in the Writing Center.

Favorites:

Color: Purple

Artist/Band: My Darkest Days, Art of Dying, Halestorm, Hinder, Hollywood Undead, Linkin Park, etc.

Actor and Actress: None

Movie: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Book: 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad

Planet: Earth

Animal: Dogs

Clothing Store: Aeropostale

Olympic Sport (Summer and Winter): None

Subject: English


Questions:

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

2. What are you planning to study/major in?
Undecided

3. What are you most looking forward to about college?
Meeting new people.

4. What will you miss most about high school?
The familiarity of everything.

5. How has being a WWC tutor affected your own writing?
It has made me more critical of it, but more open to suggestions from others.

6. If you were an ice cream, what flavor would you be and why?
Any flavor, because I don't eat ice cream, and I wouldn't want to eat myself.

7. If you could be best friends with any celebrity who would it be and why?
Anybody in any of the bands that I love, because they inspire me and I love their music.

Senior Spotlight

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Aleksey Ermolaev
This is his first year of tutoring in the Writing Center.

Favorites:

Color: Teal

Artist/Band: Evanescence, Foo Fighters, Train

Actor and Actress: Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, Leonardo DiCaprio / Gray DeLise, Jennifer Hale

Movie: Shrek, Lord of the Rings

Book: The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

Planet: Neptune

Animal: JELLYFISH.

Clothing Store: The Internet.

Olympic Sport (Summer and Winter): Volleyball, because I can actually understand what's going on

Subject: Computer Science; if electives don't count, then History


Questions

1. What college will you be attending (or hoping to attend)?
UVa

2. What are you planning to study/major in?
Computer Science

3. What are you most looking forward to about college?
Waking up for classes at 9:00AM

4. What will you miss most about high school?
All of my familiar faces, and the insanity that is It's Academic

5. How has being a WWC tutor affected your own writing?
I've really honed my organizational skills so that I can now throw down a thesis and paragraph intros in a few minutes.

6. If you were an ice cream, what flavor would you be and why?
Cookie Dough, so that I could eat myself whenever I wanted and not feel bad about it.

7. If you could be best friends with any celebrity who would it be and why?
Nicholas Cage. The level to which I would be able to mess with people would be just too good to pass up.