About Sara V. Fernandez

Sara V. Fernandez

Sara was the valedictorian of the class of 2019 and currently is studying Materials Science and Engineering at MIT with minors in Chinese and Entrepeneurship. During her time at Westminster, she was president of Mu Alpha Theta, the captain of the tennis team, and a graduate of the inaugural Project Lead the Way engineering program. She also loved to write for the literary magazine, and won first place for prose during her junior year. She sees writing as “a useful tool to help communicate thoughts and ideas to others while also conveying emotion. It is useful for the writer as they are able to reflect on what they have experienced and likewise helps the reader absorb what the writer has to say”. She says her submission, “The Walk” describes “a seemingly pure and peaceful place”, while also ackowledging that there is a darkness lying beneath the surface. “The eye of the storm presents itself as an escape from a difficult and destructive reality, but it merely hides the harshness that surrounds it from all sides.” Sara was recently an undergraduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab and led a scientific paper on comfortable devices that was accepted for publication and will be released soon. She hopes that she can combine her passion for technology and humanity by helping in the medical field.