“ I would say that my biggest regret would be turning down opportunities that would be fun, to do academic things, which I have done on many occasions, and I tend to prioritize my academics almost to a fault I’d say, I tend, to only focus on academics, and on how some grade will affect me, more so than you know, the rest of the world. And I feel like it's very important to experience things, and when you prioritize more ; “ Oh, In the future possibly this or that could happen, so I need to be prepared this way”, instead of actually waiting and doing it, it takes the joy out of life, which is important.” 

“ Well actually, my father and I went on a road trip once and we went into Oregon and on our way back, when we were in the middle of nowhere, randomly in the north of California, I don’t think anyone knew where we were, my father pulled off on the side of the road, and he like went- drove into a forest and we went and I got to sit in a field, for hours and a deer came up to me, and I got to like sit there, with a baby deer in the middle of the summer in a field.”