Jenevieve Surkin

19, GREENVILLE, STUDENT

College/ school attending and major: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, double majoring in biomedical and health sciences engineering through the joint department at North Carolina State University and Asian studies with a Chinese concentration at UNC.

Current job-describe duties? I am a full-time student. My job currently consists of trying to make sure I get sufficient sleep and eat three meals a day. This can be rather trying when I feel as though every second is spent on learning and studying and filling my brain with information to apply in the future.

Hobbies and passion projects: I enjoy organizing, reading Agatha Christie and Jane Austen books, baking the Great British Baking Show challenges, going on walks, playing with my dogs, playing chess, watching television series with my family.

What is a quote or song that best

represents you? “Accentuate the Positive” by Perry Como. I actually just recently discovered this song on the radio this past month and was in fact rather surprised at not having found it sooner! I love to listen to Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Mel Torme, and Ella Fitzgerald. They transport me back in time to both their own and my time when I first heard about having “the world on a string” and learned that in the end, “que será, será.”

Favorite food? My dad’s tuna salad on a toasted cheese bagel. And also, chocolate.

Fashion Icon? Schiaparelli for her outlandish work and for daring to shock society into submission with her radical designs.

If you were given a 1 million dollars research grant, what

would you use it for? I would use it to aid in the search for a cure for Alzheimer’s. My grandmother passed away from the disease, and I would do anything to get five minutes of time with her as she was.

Where do you see yourself in five years? In five years, I see myself happily eating chocolate probably while wondering about some random fact about the universe. I hope to have graduated college and be preparing for secondary school potentially by working in a hospital to gain more experience prior to medical/graduate school.

Link to Jenevieve's TEDx talk on the Keys to Productive Conflict:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX6auetY6WM&t=172s

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