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Jeong-In Seo Washington University in St. Louis Orchestra outside of school (9-11) LHS (9-12) NAHS (11-12) Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. Hamil Shah Ohio State University - Columbus FBLA (9-12) INVENTeam (9-10) Economics Challenge (10-11) No Jain no game Ruhee Shah University of Virginia Yearbook (9-12) Lincoln-Douglas Debate (9-12)\ Softball (9-11) “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou Javed Shaik University of Virginia Cultivators of the Earth A best friend is like a four leaf cover hard to find and extremely lucky to have Rhea Sharma College of William & Mary Field Hockey (9-12) Lacrosse (9-12) Active Minds (11-12) Namaste (9-12) Show Choir (9-12) Busties (9-forever) Ravioli (12-forever) Saachi wannabe (10-forever) “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” – Winston Churchill Bobbie Sheng University of Chicago Thomas Jefferson Marching Colonials (10-12) TJ Band (10-12) Latin Honor Society (9-12) Quizbowl (9-12) Threshold (11-12) “The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which was a comfortably long way off on Friday night.” –Terry Pratchett Solomon Shewit Cornell University MUN (10-12) SAACHI (10-FOREVA) SteelD (12) I need a lifeguard Oliver Shi University of Virginia Crew (9-12) Chem Team (10-11) You can’t row well without rowing hard. Naini Shiswawala Virginia Commonwealth University Yearbook (9-12) GIVE (10-12) Hope for the Homeless (11-12) National Honor Society (11-12) JT-31 Squad (9-12) All I want to do in life is pull up to every scene with my ceiling missing. Connor Simpson College of William & Mary Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Young Democrats “Actually, it’s about ethics in gaming journalism.” – Mark Twain Nur Simsek University of Chicago Writing Center Tutor (10-12) UNICEF (9-12) MSA (9-12) SHS (10-12) “You don’t test a gentle person the way that you don’t steep tea for too long. Submerge me and I will imbue, and what was sweet will be bitter. I will be strong on your tongue and unpleasant to the taste, and you’ll regret drowning me in your guile.My gentleness is not for your taking.” – Nikka Ursula Yash Singh College of William & Mary sciTalk (11-12) Public Forum Debate (10-12) Namaste (11-12) Loudoun Kid (Life) Never mind, I opened the pizza upside down :/ @dominos
Morgan Sizemore Dartmouth College Yearbook (9-10) Hispanic Alliance (9-10) Crew (9-12) Teach Them to Fish Foundation (9-12) FCA (11-12) Creative Director RSF (11-12) Fashion Icon (Always) Katherine Sizov University of Pennsylvania Fencing (9-12) NHS (11-12) FHS (11-12) GSA (10-11) When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. – Elon Musk Michael Smith Rochester Institute of Technology Amateur Radio Club (9-12) Botball (9) Young Democrats (9) Student System Administrators (9-11) Good enough is Kai Smith James Madison University Carolina Crown (13-15) Soccer (12-13) Band (11-15) Marching Band (11-14) Siva Somayyajula Cornell University Spanish Honor Society (10-12) Technology Student Association (10-12) Computer Team (9-12) Indian Language Club (9-10) [Submitted at 11:59 PM] Erik Song University of Virginia “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence, and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it on the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.” Nandan Srinivasa University of Virginia Chess (10-12) Chemistry Team(10-12) “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain” – Harvey Dent Nikhil Srinivasan University of Pittsburgh Don’t wait for opportunity to knock, build a door and kick it down yourself. Chris Stephens University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Froshmore (10) The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. – Confucius Haley Stumvoll Georgia Institute of Technology Cross Country and Indoor Track (9-12) Outdoor Track & Field (11-12) GEMS (9-12) Electronics Club (9-12) “This place makes me so nervous, all I can think of is food!” – Shaggy Rogers Ashwin Subramaniam Pennsylvania State University - University Park Tennis (9) Chemistry Team (9-11) Biology Olympiad (9) Biology Society (9-10) Intermediate Computer Team (10) A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. So why do my parents call my desk a work station? Daniel Suh Clemson University Varsity Cheerleading (10-12) All-Star Cheerleading (11-12) Cheer Tyme stunt instructor (12) Urban Dance Movement (9-10, 12) Swing Dance (11-12) Unique Learning Center tutor (11) There are times to “wing it”. If there’s a big chance you’re going to hurt others or yourself, go practice.
Eric Sun Carnegie Mellon University Freshman Computer Team (9) Computer Security Club (10-12) “The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.” – Bill Nye Justin Sun University of Virginia Tennis waterboy (9-forever) Cross country (9), TJ waitlist (8-9) They hate us cause they aint us – Dave Skylark Adi Suresh Virginia Commonwealth University Football (10-12) Bio-Olympiad (10-11) ASL (9-11) Life-In-Movement (12) Red Cross (11-12) I’ve had a lot of epiphanies in the past few years. Peter Suzuki Rice University Baseball (9-12) Neuro Soc (9-12) iGEMs (11-12) Hispanic Alliance (10-11) You are what you do, not what you say. Alyssa Sze College of William & Mary Crew (9-12) Poi (9-12) Operation Communication (9-12) “If I’d known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.” – Eubie Blake Arianna Sze Washington University in St. Louis Poi (10-12) ASL (9-10, 12) Threshold (10-12) “I learned to catch a bird in flight and leave no footprints in the snow. I never feel the cold and I never sleep” – Elektra Kayvon Tabrizi Johns Hopkins University “If you always say no, you’ll never say yes.” – Ryan Higa Rohit Tadikamalla Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University FBLA (9-12) Economics Challenge (9-11) INVENTeam (9-10) “Some people might hate you for being different and not living by society’s standards, but deep down they wish they had the courage to do the same.” – Kevin Hart Christian Tae Stanford University Baseball (9-12) HANK (11-12) TARC (9-10) JT-31 Squad (9-12) “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee Ru (Tony) Tang College of William & Mary Crew (9-12) Go Club (9-12) Hope for the Homeless (10-12) Physics Team (11-12), Table Tennis (9-11) 1) To improve is to change, to perfect is to change often. Nathaniel Taylor Cornell University MUN (9-12) Fencing (10-12) “Danger’s over, Banana Breakfast is saved.” – Pynchon Sage Teasley Tulane University Lacrosse (9-12) TJMC (9-12) Model UN (9-12) PriRu (10-life) Sometimes the only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday. Dilip Thiagarajan Cornell University Math Team (9-12) Senior Computer Team (9-12) Freshman Basketball (9) Physics Team (10-11) Chem Team (10-11) “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin
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May Thinnyun George Mason University Active Science Alliance (9-12) Varsity Gymnastics (11-12) Varsity Soccer Manager (11-12) I’m so lucky to have the world’s best mom, dad, and little brother for putting up with me and supporting me for the past four years. Thank you and I will miss you all next year!
Annie Thomas University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign TJSD (9-12), FIRST Robotics (11-12) NHS Treasurer (12) SLAVA (11-12) Perfect (birth-12) “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” – Albert Einstein Luke Thorsell Columbia University Varsity Swim (9-12) “Just found out the world doesn’t revolve around me. Shocked & upset.” – Marina Diamandis Manaswitha Thota College of William & Mary “Every song has a coda, a final movement. Whether it fades out or crashes away, every song ends. Is that any reason not to enjoy the music?” – Ellie Harp Sudhamsh Tippireddy George Washington University Public Forum Debate (9-12) Model UN (9-12) Investment Club (10-12) Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself. Aleesha Toteja University of Texas - Austin Relay For Life (9-12) SGA (11-12) Prom Comm (11-12) Namaste (9-11) JT-31 (9-forever) “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie the Pooh Ben Trans University of Virginia Ellis Tsung University of Virginia Cruiser Crew (1-life) You are now breathing manually. Anna Tsutsui College of William & Mary Orchestra (9-12) tjSTAR Committee (10-12) WISE (10-12) “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” – Fred Rogers Anna Tursi Saint Mary’s College Catholic Student Association (9-12) FIRST Robotics Competition (10-12) The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney Sai Puneeth Uttla University of Virginia Biggie Squad Model UN (10-12) VMT (9-11) Computer Team (9-12) Class Council (12) “But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.””But doctor...” he says “I am Pagliacci.”I don’t even like kiwis that much Katherine Van Kirk Stanford University CLC (11-12) SGA (12) NeuroInspire (10-12) IF (12) Poetry Writer, Coder, Astrophysicist (forever) SPACE IS REAL. Kayleigh Vance Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Varsity softball (9-12) Monticello Maniacs Caring too much about sports (life) Twitter fame (12) Don’t smile because it’s over, cry because it happened.
Lalit Varada Johns Hopkins University Senior Computer team (9-12) Fly you fools!-Gandalf
Maria Velicu United States Military Academy Varsity Volleyball (9-12) Athletic Injury Clinic (9-12) Scrabble Club (10-12) #wheresmaria “A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.” – Willy Wonka Anna Venetianer University of Virginia Varsity Tennis (9-12) NeuroInspire (11) There are two rules for success... 1. Never reveal everything you know Samuel Veroneau University of Chicago Baseball (9-12) Basketball Bench (9-10) Freshman Quarterback (9-12) Indonesia Expedition (12) Smithsonian Volunteer (10-12) Anarchist Commune (Time is a Capitalist Construct) Valar Dohaeris Julian Villacorta Stevens Institute of Technology Guitar Club (11-12) Football (9-11) Lacrosse (9-11) I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. Jonathon Vogel University of Washington Cruiser Crew (1-life) At dawn of day, when you dislike being called, have this thought ready: “I am called to man’s labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?” – Marcus Aurelius Nate Vollbrecht University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Crew (9-12) “Closing time— every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” —Semisonic Wanting will get you nowhere. Doing will get you everywhere. And doing what you want may just take you where you want to go. Live a little! Zachary Wade Carnegie Mellon University FPS (9) Electronics (9-12) TSA (10-12) CSC (10-12) “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C.S. Lewis Renee Wah Mount Holyoke College Thomas Jefferson Marching Colonials (9-12) Band (9-12) Threshold (10-12) “I did my waiting! Twelve years of it! In Fairfax County Public Schools!” Gerry Wan Princeton University TJSD (forever) Science Olympiad (10-12) Physics Team (11-12) Froshmore (10-12) “When in doubt, do it.” Kevin Wan University of Virginia Tennis (10-12) J-DAY Champ (11-12) SteelD (12) Team Personality (9-12) Dog Owner (10-12) I love Coach Myers Zoe Wang United States Naval Academy Crew (11) WILD (10-12) Operation Wallacea Research Team (11) Cheer (9-10) “The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it’s not illegal to be an ---hole, but it’s illegal to slap one.” – Ronda Rousey