What's important to you? Family, friends, music...

What matters to you? Sports, education, art...

What inspires you? Being healthy, going green, doing my part

Hi my name is Emily and some things that are important to me are music, knowledge, and the outdoors.

I've played instruments my whole life, I started out on the piano when I was six years old

and I started the cello when I was in middle school, I used to hate the piano. Practicing was really hard for me. I could never sit down in one sitting

and it wasn't until after I stopped taking lessons and just started playing for myself that it became amazing for me, it was just such a release to sit down

and make music, and it was something just for me, and I think that's the really special thing about music, is that

you can enjoy it just by yourself, and it's just something inside of you that makes you happy. The cello's really hard for me, but

I think that it's really rewarding when you practice a lot and nail a song, I'm a complete perfectionist, so it always takes me forever but

it's a really big accomplishment when you can play that song and you can play it for other people and just share all that work and all that accomplishment with other people.

I love to read. I love reading articles about science, and just learning about the world really there's so much and like

humanity is such like a paradox there's so many things that we don't understand it's such a mystery and learning about that

the closer we get to like the big answers it's really interesting. To me it's really fun to communicate with another person in Spanish

it's not my first language um but most of the time it is their is when I'm talking to them

and you know it's part of their culture I am kind of, stepping outside of myself and coming to them

and people really appreciate that um change and reaching out to someone else by speaking in their language.

Being outdoors is a really good way to get away from all the stress that's going on in your life

like being a high school senior trying to get into college and like working all the time

making sure that you maintain your grades and you get those good test scores um

when you get out in the wilderness that kind of disappears you don't have to think about it and you're part of something that's greater and better than that

and you know that it's gonna work out you feel like things are gonna work out when you're out there and everything's so naturally perfect

you feel like what you do isn't so important anymore and that's kind of a really settling and reassuring feeling.

What inspires you... In life all I really want is to know about myself and other people and to learn about this world

What inspires you... and being a part of it.

What matters to you... It's important to have experiences that mold you and help you find out exactly like you who you are.

What's important to you... All together that's what's important is knowing yourself and being someone and that's what life is for me.

Means the world to us.