Question 1:

What makes you stare off into space?

Probably thinking about the future.

Question 2:

Can beauty exist without suffering?

Yeah, I would say so. Yeah, I feel like just cause something is beautiful looking or whatever, it doesn't mean that someone had to like sacrifice or suffer to make it, you know, like, you know.

Question 3:

Describe the most beautiful thing you have ever destroyed.

The windows of my house.

Question 4:

Has your work ever driven you mad? If it has, how did you come to clarity afterwards? If it hasn't, how do you prevent it from doing so?

I would say yeah, it probably has. I'll listen to music. I listen to a lot of lofi music when I'm stressed, coming out of work. I take some time off, like, just lie in bed and close my eyes, relax for like ten minutes, and then come back to it, with a fresh mind.

Question 5:

What's a piece of advice you would give a five-year-old?

Enjoy your life before you turn 14.

Question 6:

Is there any part of your work that is inspired by nature?

Probably not, but I do love the outdoors and whatnot. So I'll probably have something from there that I take into my classroom, whether it be something I learned or like a cool stick I found.

Question 7:

What’s something physical and mental that you always carry?

Physical, I mean, I always have my cross chain on. Mental. Um, this is a quote from my uncle before he died. He said, “I'd rather be looking at it than looking for it.” So I get in a reference to literally anything, like it's cold out, like just ring your jacket, or like, he just always likes to be overprepared.

Question 8

When is something too much?

If it starts to change, the way you have to behave as a person. Like, if I have to deviate from the norm to deal with this, it's probably taking up too much of my time.

Question 9:

Have you ever seen something so strange it made you doubt your own eyes?

I don't think so, though. I’ve seen beauty, and like a wild factor, I mean it hasn’t made me doubt what I was seeing, you know.

Question 10:

What inspired you to choose your major?

These two high school teachers were the ones that I enjoyed. And then I went on a religious retreat with them. And they were built there, and I got close to them. And you know, I got to know them on a more personal level, and they told me why they went into teaching, and they resonated with me, and so it was always in the back of my mind. Plus, I have a lot of family and teaching, so it was always kind of there.

Question 11:

Is there such a thing as an original idea?

I think yeah, but I think it's harder now. I think, around 2300 BC, it's not hard to come up with a unique idea. For example, if someone talks about a computer, they couldn't have made it. But I think now it's really hard. A lot of things have been done.

Question 12:

How has studying your major changed the way you see the world?

I mean, I feel like a lot of high school students don't really care about, their school system. and like ever since, like, I start to study it and and learn about, like educational policies and also just like simpler stuff, like learning how to lesson plan and what I need to do, how to make it. It's been kind of eye-opening.

Question 13:

Which course in your major has been the most rewarding so far?

Question 14:

What’s one thing everyone should understand about your field?

Oftentimes, it's not the teacher's choice when there's a problem. Decisions are kind of made for them when they're following the curriculum. Following higher-ups, like in the day, the teachers are just following the curriculum and the administration. They're just kind of the mouth that tells your children the information that's given to them, and a lot of stuff gets taken out on teachers, and they just don't really have a choice in what they're doing.

Question 15:

What advice would you give to someone considering majoring in your field?

You're going to have to prepare to, like, not make as much as other people, but also people think that teachers make nothing, which is just not true. Also, it's gonna probably going to be one of the most rewarding fields you could get into, I think. Like my brother, I remember for the first, like, couple months of his job was like, really struggling, just because like, but ever since like, probably Thanksgiving, he's been like ecstatic, he loves it.

Question 16

What’s something you love learning about right now?

Probably the French Revolution. I mean, I went to France, and I took a class on medieval European history. We covered the French Revolution, it was just like it was cool because I was physically there. Then I could visualize like this happened in a place that I would actually have been, and it wasn't like America, where it's like, oh, this happened in New Y‘ It was like somewhere I had traveled to, and I couldn't be like, oh, wow, that happened here. Plus I was studying in French at the time, it was kind of incorporate all three.

Question 17:

If you had a time machine that could travel to one day in the past or future, where and when would you go?

Probably sometime during the peak of World War II, to see what, like, life was like, just like an average person's life was like, at the height of, you know, the most significant and most destructive conflict in world history.

Question 18:

What motivates you to keep going when work gets hard?

Just the idea of just like, the light at the end of the tunnel, just like, you know, I mean, like, you're gonna have to get it done, but also, like, I said, I'll take a couple minutes off and then, like, I'll relax and then come back to it.

Question 19:

If you had to teach a classroom of elementary school children how to do your dream job, how would you do it?

I don't think teaching it probably is my dream I think my dream job would be to like work out, like, would be to like work with cars, probably. I'll tell them to, like, you know, you gotta have a passion for it, you can't just be like, can't just throw average Joe in there, he’s gonna hate it cause, you know, they're not gonna wanna lay under a car and have oil all over them. So I'd tell them something they really have to want to do.

Question 20:

Do you enjoy working with abstract ideas or concrete facts more?

Concrete facts. If I don't know when things are laid out, then I feel like I don't know if I'm doing too much or too little.