Kevin C.
Class of 2015
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Hometown: Southport, CT
Major: History
Minor: French Cultural Studies
Current residence: AMR I, Wood
Campus involvement: Tutorial Project, Chinese Lion Dancing, Mock Trial, Blue Key Society
Why I chose Johns Hopkins: Johns Hopkins to me is everything that a great university should be: It's beautiful, the professors are brilliant, the distribution requirements system is liberating, the atmosphere is comfortable, and the people are really smart. When I factored all these together, deciding to come here was an easy choice.
Favorite class: Advanced Writing and Speaking in French. Though the class moves quickly, it's really engaging, the atmosphere is so comfortable, and the professor is so great that it remands me how I love to learn for the sake of learning.
My favorite character from a movie/book/television series: It's not even close to a competition here—Kurt Hummel from Glee. He's in a league of his own.
Favorite place on the Homewood campus: The Gilman atrium. It's gorgeous, coffee shop-adjacent, and a great place to study.
What I want to do with my major: Right now I really want to use it to teach American History in High School.
Coolest (spring/summer/winter) break experience: My trip to The Gambia this summer, teaching math and journalism in a school for underprivileged girls, was certainly the experience of a lifetime.
Three unusual things about myself:
- I was bit by a crocodile while doing volunteer work in Africa.
- I spelled "antidisestablishmentarianism" in kindergarten.
- My go-to curse phrase is "May every truffle you bite into be coconut."
