I was born and raised in a small town in southern Illinois called Centralia. During high school, our school won a national contest for the most unique high school mascot -The Centralia Orphans! After high school I attended Kaskaskia Community College for one year while I completed my Associates in Arts degree and used it to transfer to my current school USI. Here at USI I am majoring in psychology and hoping to go in to the Masters program of Occupational Therapy - my dream job. After graduating with that degree I would like to move south and find a job. Somewhere with less cornfields and more beaches, and somewhere that preferably doesn't really have a winter.

Some of my interests are: