Emily

My daughter is extremely passionate about history and loves taking about it, while trying to get more people to understand human culture too

Placed 20th

in their group

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Why They Love Being a Student

She loves to learn, while trying her best in all classes and getting a broad understanding of all her classes from neuropsychology to physics

Favorite Subject & Why

She absolutely loves history, anything from the medieval/tudor era and later. This girl answe nearly any question you’d have about the time period and she especially loves the bubonic plauge. It’s such an important part of history that I’m glad she finds so much importance in it and wants to teach others

How $20,000 Would Support Their Goals

Getting $20,000 would help us significantly with upcoming college out of state tuition and supporting her dreams of traveling the world, seeing all seven wonders. A year ago, she and the chance to see macchu picchu, something she’d talked about for years, since she learnt about it. But, on the trip, due to the altitude, she had a horrible medical issue and had to cut her trip short, devastated in missing the ancient city she loves.

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