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Zo Simmons

“The most valuable part of my time at Community has definitely been the relationships I’ve built along the way, not only with my peers but also with my teachers. I started getting involved with leadership really early on because that was something that was really important to me, and I’ve been able to do a lot through my role as forum council president, mock trial captain, and through leadership in DAG. All of those things helped me to be more engaged in my community. Community has prepared me not just academically, but also socially. I feel like I’m prepared not just as a student ready for college, but also as a person. The flexibility of Community has allowed me to do a lot of work in labs, TA science classes, and really solidified what I want to be doing for the rest of my life. It’s not a cookie cutter education, and I was really allowed to experiment so that I won’t be flying blind in college. One time during my Italian Arts and Culture class we walked down to Washtenaw Dairy and took pictures of architecture and talked about life and politics and Steve Coron bought us all ice cream. Then we got out of school early and I went to get pizza.”