Dear Malcolm, Hi, my name is Jenny Nguyen (I don’t have a middle name, thank you parents) and I am 18 years old. I was born on July 16, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. I’ve lived there for five years until my parents divorced and I moved to Columbus, Ohio with my mom. We lived there for 7 years until my mom remarried and we moved to Lumberton, NC (I hate it there). You’ve probably never heard of Lumberton and if you haven’t, it’s a very small, rural town located right on Interstate 95. It’s about 30 minutes from Fayetteville, NC. I am an only child, but I have a halfsister named Jenna on my dad’s side. My dad and his family now lives in Indiana and I frequently visit them. Jenna is seven years old and she is my minime really. So, on to more stuff about me. I played tennis for my high school team for a while. I wasn’t that great, but it provided great exercise and a great way to destress. But that’s not the reason why I joined the team. I really do love tennis and actually went to this intensive tennis training camp over the summer in 2013. I love watching soccer but I’ve never played it. (You should have seen me during the world cup games over the summer…I was a crazy lady). I’m not really an athletic person. I mean…I tried to be. I was on this cheer team when I was in 2 nd grade, and honestly, if I actually stuck to it, I could have been a pro at cheerleading by now. But it wasn’t for me and I didn’t go through with it long. Here at UNCC, I am currently a freshman and I was a chemistry major but I changed it to biology. I’m planning to apply for pharmacy school after I graduate, so I have to intensively study in both fields of biology and chemistry. A lot of people think I’m crazy because I put all this work on myself, but science is my passion and if anything is your passion, you can always do it. I realize it’s very difficult, but why would I hold back just because “it’s difficult”? When I was younger, I went through this phase where I was sure I would grow up to work for NASA and be an astronomer. Then I was sure I was going to be a marine biologist. I even thought I wanted to study and work as an underwater cave explorer. (Please don’t laugh). I wanted to do everything with science. Jenna & I My parents