January Students of the Month

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January students of the month.

Mickey Torgerson
What are your favorite hobbies?  Driving, working, shopping. 
If you could have a conversation with anyone from history, who would it be and what would you ask them?  Taylor Swift, can we be friends?

Brielle Branch
Where do you want to see yourself in five years?  Graduating with my bachelors degree. 
What are your favorite hobbies?  Swimming, hiking, and hanging out with my friends. 
If you could have a conversation with anyone from history, who would it be and what would you ask them?  I'd ask Helen Keller if she really flew a plane. 

Alessia Davis
Where do you want to see yourself in five years?  Hopefully, in college or interning for special education and ASL.
What are your favorite hobbies? BYU Dance Makers, reading, playing my violin, hanging out with my 7 siblings.  
If you could have a conversation with anyone from history, who would it be and what would you ask them?  My Grandpa Kumen -- Anything really because I never met him. 

Seth Brown
Where do you want to see yourself in five years?  I hope to be home from my mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints attending college at BYU.  I haven't chosen a major yet, I know that I want to study computing and/or math.  
What are your favorite hobbies?  I enjoy reading, writing, computer programming, playing the piano, playing the board game Risk, and going down random rabbit holes learning cool (though somewhat useless) things.  
If you could have a conversation with anyone from history, who would it be and what would you ask them?  I'd talk to A. Philip Randolph because although I'm not a big fan of great men in history, and I recognize that it was the collective efforts of many people that brought about civil rights reforms, he was one of the biggest organizers for grassroots movements pushing for social change, from the Harlem Renaissance to the March of Washington.  It feels like all too often today, people have the power, and despite massive, awe-inspiring popular protests all over the country, very little changes.  The civil rights movement is a model on which we should base our own leveraging of collective power to effect change, because in that time, people had power and influence.  For these reasons, I'd want to ask him what we can do to bring about positive change in our country that seems so broken. 

Brogan Miles
Where do you want to see yourself in five years? Home from a mission and enrolled at Stanford University. 
What are your favorite hobbies? Football, Basketball, & Singing. 
If you could have a conversation with anyone from history, who would it be and what would you ask them?  Wilt Chamberlain.  I would ask him what it was like playing basketball without a 3-point line.

Attributions
Story by MaryLynne Graff. Photo by Tyler Lewis.