I am currently a senior at Trinity University. On campus I'm involved with TUVAC, SME, and KDP. So many acronyms! With TUVAC I'm the program head for the mentoring program at Hawthorne. That means I get to help match up Trinity students with kids at Hawthorne who need a mentor. It's a great program and the kids really benefit from having a college student for a role model. SME stands for Saturday Morning Experience. That means I wake up way too early on Saturdays to teach a group of sixth graders. It's a lot of fun though! We do fun experiments and go on field trips so it's worth the early morning. Finally, KDP is the Education Honor Society. So far this year we've been working on some projects to bring young students to Trinity. It's really great to see a middle schooler's reaction to what college is like! Next year I will start the master's program in teaching and will be a student teacher at Hawthorne. I love working with kids and can't wait to start teaching! Part of me wants to stay here in town to teach but another part of me wants to go somewhere completely new just to try it. We'll see what happens!