I have been committed to my academic education since I was very young. I did my best since elementary school, which eventually led to the principal upgrading me, making me now one of the youngest students in my class. I worked hard to achieve my current 4.0 GPA at the end of this first semester, and I'm proud to be a straight A student for almost my entire time in middle school and high school thus far. That being said, I am also interested in the arts. I've been acting since I was eight years old and the first theater production I was in was "A Christmas Carol" at the Guthrie Theater. I continued to be part of Guthrie's annual production of this play for five consecutive years, from 2008 to 2012, until I was thirteen. During this time, I continued to perform at various venues such as Mixed Blood Theater, Chanhassen Dinner Theaters, Children's Theater Company, and Stages Theater Company. Most of these outside activities conflicted with school, but I always managed to maintain my