I was born in NYC. As a young girl, I aspired to become a pediatrician, but aftre taking my first journalism class as a sophomore in high school, I quickly changed my mind to becoming a journalist. My newspaper advisor was the one who introduced me to this competition and I submitted an essay because the topics were so unique from the other essay competitions I've entered. While writing this essay, I discovered that I write better personal narrative essays than any other kind of essay.

I write for the teen section of the local newspaper, the Virginian-Pilot, and I served as the editor-in-chief of my school newspaper, the Falcon Press. I still play the piano, as well as the violin. During my free time, I love to hang out with my family and friends and go to the beach. My hero is my mom, who was always there for me, during the hard times and the bad, and whether I failed or succeeded. I will attend New York University in the fall as a Broadcast Journalim major, and I aspire to one day become a news anchor for one of the major broadcast stations.

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