Q. In what grade are you currently enrolled?

A. I’m currently in 12th grade at Salisbury High School.

Q. Who is in your family? Please provide the first names of your family members: parents, siblings and pets.

A. My family is split up between two houses, so my sister Lyla and I live part-time with my mom, Siusanne and our cats, Bentley and Vickey and part-time with our dad, Eugene, his wife Laura, her daughters, Clara and Faye and our dog, Dash.

Q. What is your favorite subject? Why?

A. My favorite subject teeters between English and history, because I’m obsessed with learning about different cultures and how the world works. I think overall I lean more toward history, but I can write a mean essay any day.

Q. Have you received any special awards or recognition?

A. My freshman year I won the Collaborative Leadership Award alongside the other editors of the yearbook for our work that year.

Q. Are you involved in any extracurricular activities?

A. I’m involved in a lot of extracurricular activities. I’m the editor-in-chief of the yearbook, president of German Club and captain of Scholastic Scrimmage. I’m a member of Student Government Association, National Honor Society, Key Club, Model UN and the senior class advisory. I’m also the district’s communications intern and I studied abroad in Germany last summer with the German American Partnership Program.

Q. What is your next goal after high school?

A. After high school, I’m planning on attending a four-year university to study international relations and either Russian or Korean. I eventually want to go on to become a human rights lawyer.

Q. What do you consider your biggest challenge to date?

A. My biggest challenge to date is having to find out how to pay for college. I’ve gotten into all of these great schools, but the cost of tuition is just ridiculous (if any readers want to help out, my Venmo is clairehopenichols)!

Q. For what would you like to be remembered?

A. I’d like to be remembered for my love for mankind. I think humanity and all it has created is beautiful and I hope when I’m gone the world will think about all I did to ensure that people, all people, were given the tools and resources they need to not just survive, but thrive.

Q. If you could spend an evening conversing with any historically significant person, whom would you choose? Why?

A. If I could spend an evening with anyone from history, I would meet with Gavrilo Princip, better known as the man who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the first shot fired in World War I. I would want to give him a quick rundown of everything that’s happened in the last century or so as a result of that assassination, from the Red Scare to modern day fascism and ask him if it was really all worth it.

Q. Do you have any advice for your peers?

A. My advice for my peers is to just roll with the punches. If you get a bad grade, it’s OK to laugh about it instead of freaking out and thinking the world is ending. High school isn’t everything, and putting your social life on the back burner for a few good scores in physics just isn’t worth it.