"You have brains in your head, feet in your shoes. You may steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, you know what you know. You are the one who'll decide where you go"
---Dr. Seuss

Class: 2011
Major: Molecular & Cellular
Biology/Pre-medicine
Minor: French Cultural Studies
Hometown: South Brunswick, NJ

Previous Dance Experiences: I learned Bharatanatyam for 9 years and had my Arangetram on September 4, 2005. I have also trained in styles such as jazz, ballet, folk, and Indian film.
Hobbies: March of Dimes National Youth Council, research, volunteering at the hospital, collecting earrings, spending time with family and friends, and reading great books.
Future Goals: Work towards a career in maternal and fetal health after medical school, strive for a day when every baby is born healthy, travel the world, and have a family.

"Life is the world's greatest mystery"
---Sherlock Holmes

Class: 2011
Major: Biomedical Engineering/
Pre-medicine
Hometown: Murrysville, PA

Previous Dance Experience:
Bharathanatyam for 13 years, including several solo performances in India and in the USA along with many dance productions; in the Pittsburgh fusion group Navanrithya for 5 years
Hobbies: Reading, painting
Future Goals: Further my studies in dance and earn a medical degree.

Class: 2011
Major: Public Health
Hometown: New York, NY

Previous Dance Experience: 15 years of Ukrainian Folk Dancing under the direction of Roma Pryma Bohachevsky. I have also trained in jazz and character, and currently dance with the JHU Ballet Company.
Hobbies: I enjoy traveling, playing tennis, painting, drawing, baking, spending time with friends and family, and most of all - laughing.
Future Goals: To go abroad for a semester or summer, enjoy the years of my youth, take plenty of interesting courses and do well in all of them, become successful, and raise a family, giving them even more than all the opportunity and wealth of knowledge I have received.

"It's our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
--- Albus Dumbledore

Class: 2012
Hometown: Seattle, WA

Previous Dance Experience: 8 years of dance, including tap, jazz, and hip hop
Hobbies:
Watching films, swimming, traveling
Future Goals: Make the most of college, try new things, travel, be happy

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end"
---Robin Williams

Class: 2013
Major:
Molecular & Cellular Biology/Pre-med
Hometown: Kansas City, KS

Previous Dance Experience: 10 years of dance, inluding jazz, ballet, modern, & hip-hop
Hobbies: dancing, reading, traveling, going out to eat, and just chilling with friends
Future Goals: Go to medical school and become a dermatologist

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"
---Maurader's Map

Class: 2013
Major:International Relations
Hometown: Seattle, WA

Previous Dance Experience:
I learned Bharatanatyam for 10 years and had my Arangetram in 2007. I also have experience with Indian folk and Bollywood dancing.
Hobbies: Reading, eating, dancing, baking, spending time with family and friends, and good tv.
Future Goals: To grow...and be awesome.

"Insist on yourself. Never imitate"
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Class: 2013
Major: Biology/Pre-Medecine
Minor: Chinese
Hometown: Spokane, WA

Previous Dance Experience:I dabbled in tap, ballet, and jazz when I was younger but my real passion became figure skating which I’ve done for the last 10 years both for competition and testing.
Hobbies: piano, distance running, spending time at the lake, student council, volunteering at the hospital, hanging out with my friends and family
Future Goals: I hope to master Chinese and Study a year abroad, graduate from JHU with honors to continue to medical school, someday be a family physician

"You can either have a great excuse or a great story"

Class: 2010
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Hometown: Plainsboro, NJ

Previous Dance Experience: Various cultural performances that include hip hop, fusion, fan dancing.
Hobbies: Tennis, traveling, watching the Food Channel, sleeping, eating
Future Goals: Making the most of my time here, and in the meantime finding what truly makes me happy.