After graduating from OLSHA in 2015, I studied English Literature at Hillsdale College, where my favorite classes were Augustine the Teacher, Dante's Divine Comedy, William Shakespeare, and Classical Children's Literature. While I was there, I actively participated in the Hillsdale College Catholic Society, and had the privilege of serving for one year as its vice president.

Since I attended the academy from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, I have quite a few favorite memories. I am above all grateful to the academy for instilling in me a life of prayer. The habit of praying before each class and dropping everything to pray the Angelus and remember the Incarnation sustained me through college and have stayed with me to this day. Praying the Rosary every day for twelve years with my teachers and fellow students quite simply changed my life. My favorite memory of grade school has to be celebrating All Saints’ Day as a whole school, partially because I loved the upper school students (including my elder sister) and greatly looked up to them.

As for a favorite memory in high school, it has to be class with Mrs. Altham. Every year the high school was made up of very different kinds of students from very different backgrounds, some of whom had never been taught most of the ideas we studied at the Academy. I will never forget the day that Mrs. Altham got the class really excited about Homer, including one student who didn't seem to care before. Mrs. Altham's teaching struck me and so many other students with how important what we were doing each day was. What a gift it was to be drawn into the Ongoing Conversation, one that is both age-old and timeless. That is why I will be teaching the third grade at a classical charter school in Indiana, with the hopes of being able to draw more young minds into that conversation.