Q. What grade are you currently in?

A. I am in 12th grade at Salisbury High School.

Q. What is your favorite subject? Why?

A. I don't have one. No particular subject teaches you how to work hard. In the end, a dropout will always beat a genius through hard work.

Q. Have you received any special awards or recognition?

A. I am a board member of my school's No Place For Hate initiative, a member of National Honor Society and an honor roll student. But now, I can also include a Student of the Week, and I am grateful for that.

Q. What extracurricular activities are you involved in, both in and out of school?

A. I am a debater, chorus member, class advisor and tutor.

Q. What is your next goal after high school?

A. When you're in a town like this, you forget that there's a world outside. Nothing amazing happens here. And you get used to that - used to a world where everything is ordinary. Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly. I want to see and understand the world outside. I don't want to die without knowing what's out there.

Q. What would you say your biggest challenge was so far?

A. I'm fortunate enough to say that I have never faced any especially difficult challenges.

Q. What do you want to be remembered for?

A. Hoping to be remembered for something specific is selfish. I hope to be remembered at all. If you are not remembered, then you never existed.

Q. Who is in your family?

A. My younger brother, Joshua, my older sister, Michelle, my father, Marlon, my mother, Choty, and my stepfather, Eric.

Q. Do you have someone you look up to?

A. Admiration is the furthest thing from understanding. People are not that much different from each other. It's better to look eye-to-eye with people than to look up to them.

Q. Do you have any advice for your peers?

A. Watch Attack on Titan.