Rachel Crosby
Follow messageParadise High School Class of 2009
MAGALIA, CA
I’m seventeen, stubborn, hotheaded and hopeful- a sky-high dreamer. I love challenges and competitions, Christmas and long conversations. I have an over fondness for alliteration. Writing is my passion and my best love/hate relationship. Reading is my lifeboat. My goals are to travel, to write, to help people, and to never stop learning. Money isn’t important- loving what I do is.
I'm editor of a local magazine, editor of a youth newspaper, an Academic Decathlete, in the German Club, in the Creative Writing Club, on the honor roll, in the Boys and Girl's Club, and a teen columnist.
Extracurricular
- Boys and Girls Club Leader-In-Training (LIT)
- As part of the LIT program, I volunteer at an elementary afterschool program. I tutor, help with homework,make friends with the kids and act as an extra set of eyes and ears. Through the LIT program, I have also volunteered at the Special Olympics and
- Paradise Post Teen Columnist
- Every five weeks, I write a column for a local newspaper on any subject I wish as part of their "Teens Writing for Teens" Column. It's unpaid, and I have a deadline but a lot of fun. I've written on subjects as varied as music, Harry Potter, student invol
- Paradise Post Teen Columnist
- Every five weeks, I write a column for a local newspaper, on ant subject I wish, as part of their "Teens Writing for Teens" Column. It's unpaid, and I have a deadline, but a lot of fun. I've written on subjects as varied as music, Harry Potter, student in
- Youth On the Ridge/Voice Magazine
- I have been involved with Voice, a local art and writing youth magazine, since 8th grade. At this time, the magazine is on hiatus due to our grant recently running out. The umbrella non-profit organization, Youth On the Ridge, however, is still going str
- United States Academic Decathlon
- Excessive studying and then a big competition. It's a lot more fun than it sounds. The last two years, my school has taken second place in county- despite having a less than full team. My first year, I was fourth place scorer. Last year, I was second.
- Public Speaking
- I have served as a public speaker in several capacities. I spoke on behalf of the German program at a board meeting for my school district. I have given speeches for VOICE Magazine and Youth On the Ridge and as Open Mic coordinator. At the end of my sopho
- Public Speaking
- I have served as a public speaker in several capacities. I spoke on behalf of the German program at a board meeting for my school district. I have given speeches for VOICE Magazine and Youth On the Ridge and as Open Mic coordinator. At the end of my sopho
- Pulse Youth Newspaper, Reporter, Editor
- Because my high school doesn't offer a school newspaper, a local paper decided to create one for teens. And so Pulse was born. Beginning the summer before my sophomore year, I was originally a reporter. I'm now youth editor with the responsibility of putt
- Student Advisory to the Superintendent
- Meeting once a month throughout the school year, student advisors tell the superintendent about what is going on at their school and what's going well and not so well. We report, give our opinions, and hold discussions about issues facing the school and t
- California Scholarship Federation
- As part of the CSF, I have participated in bell ringing for the Salvation Army and various other volunteer activities. I'm actually not in it this semester (second, junior year) because I, uh, forgot to send in my application. In the immortal words of the
- German Club
- The German club makes money for the high school German program. The program sends kids to Germany, donates toys to the local angel tree, and provides fun, interesting activities for German foreign exhange students and for students in German. This last Oct
- Creative Writing Club
- Once a week, I hang out at lunch with some likeminded creative types and we talk and write and hone our skills.
- Special Olympics
- Spent a day last May as an aide to a mentally handicapped peer. Was a lot of fun actually, and I plan on repeating the experience.
- Salvation Army Bell Ringing
- For my CSF club, sophomore year.
- Afterschool Tutoring
- Started in March last year, I've probably spent more than fifty hours afterschool at an elementary school helping kids with homework and the adults with making the programs run smooth.
- Alzheimers Walk For Memory
- In 9th and 10th grade I spent a day in October Igor-ing for the Alzheimer's Association biggest charity event of the year.
- Concessions Sales
- Spent a couple football games selling candy and hotdogs and learning how to make snocones to make money for my highschool German Club.
- Parents's Night
- Ran a game of fake roulette to entertain guests at Boys and Girls Club Parents' night.
- Chocolate Festival
- Ran booth sales last May as part of the Boys and Girls Club local, annual Chocolate Festival and helped make money for the club.
- Free Rice
- Freerice.com is an awesome website. For every vocabulary word you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated to the hungry. Of 55 levels, I've reaced level 47 and I"ve helped give thousands of grains of rice. College admission peeps, if you're reading th
- Voice Magazine
- Duties include: copy editing, conducting interviews, writing (articles, forwards, poems, short pieces), and helping set up events.
- Public Speaking
- Public Speaking
- Pulse Youth Newspaper
Experience
- North State Vooices Columnist
- Chico Enterprise Record
- 2006 to 2006
- I won a writing contest for my local newspaper that gave me the opportunity to write, and have published, 13 columns over a yearlong period. It was the first time I made money from something other than babysitting or doing the dishes, and I'm afraid i
- Writing Workshop Coordinator
- Youth On the Ridge
- Fall semester I ran a bi-monthly creative writing workshop at the library through the Youth On the Ridge organization. I plan on starting it up again at the start of next semester. I received twenty dollars for each workshop I ran.
Info
Basic
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Last Update:
November 2, 2010
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Birthday:
May 3
Background
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Hometown:
MAGALIA
Interests
- Liberal Arts
- Philosophy & Religion
- Social Sciences
Favorites
- Movies:
Dead Poets Society, The Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Thank You For Smoking, 300, Howl's Moving Castle, Pride and Prejudice, Spirited Away, In the Land of Women,Brokeback Mountain, Dogma, Where the Heart Is, Shaun of the D
- TV Shows:
Scifi/Fantasy escapism, comedy, and the History Channel. Yum.
Supernatural, Firefly, Doctor Who, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, Pushing Daisies, Full Metal Alchemist, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Psych, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Torchwood, 30 Rock, An - Music:
Iron&Wine, Bright Eyes, The Kingston Trio, Bob Dylan, Jim Croce, Neutral Milk Hotel, Snow Patrol, Vienna Teng, Peter Paul & Mary, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Don McLean, Billy Joel, Five For Fighting, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Dan Fogelberg
- Websites:
Livejournal. Wikipedia. Amazon. Princeton Review. CtrlAltDel. Nuklear Power. Encyclopedia Mythica. Bibliomania. A dictionary of English slang. The Internet Sacred Text Archive. Slate.com. The New York Times Online. Timeless Myths. SurLaLune Fairy Tales.
- Quotes:
"New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth,
They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth."
-James Russel Lowell - Books:
The Chosen, The Once and Future King,
The Berlin Stories, The Hobbit, A History of God, The Power of Myth, Pride and Prejudice,
Good Omens, American Gods, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Poems of W.H. Auden, Harry Potter, If On a Winter's Nigh
