Meet Reynolds Honors Student Meghan Clancy
Really. Meet Meghan now. While she is withal at Reynolds. She is someone you lot desire to know. And equally fast equally she is moving inwards life, when she graduates inwards the Spring of 2018 you lot may non endure able to pick out handgrip of upward amongst her. She volition endure gone. Here is the form of soul Meghan is: to acquire over her fright of heights she went heaven diving. She used her novel establish confidence during a summertime service learning trip out westward amongst Richmond Public Middle Schoolers. On a cliff diving gamble inwards Sedona, Arizona she literally talked a frightened pupil off a ledge, encouraging her to “jump” because she explained to the terrified girl, “If you lot tin give the sack produce this, you lot tin give the sack produce ANYTHING inwards your life.” She held her manus as well as they jumped.
These days Meghan is also busy to endure afraid of anything. In Jan she volition provide to the flooring of the Virginia General Assembly for her instant internship. This yr she volition endure helping to procedure amendments as well as volition witness lawmaking upward closed as well as personal. This seat is a perfect agree for Meghan: her destination is to acquire a Constitutional lawyer.
In add-on to her internship, Meghan has a run report inwards the Reynolds Career, as well as Transfer Center. She is a pupil ambassador, a fellow member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, a volunteer for the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as Hands on Richmond, as well as a pupil instance on the Reynolds Honors Steering Committee.
Where does her schooling agree in? “I am actually motivated to acquire through my studies. All of my classes are at nighttime later a total twenty-four hr current at work. Most of them are Honors classes. And I produce most of my homework on the weekends as well as thus I tin give the sack come upward prepared to engage amongst the degree lectures. I am okay missing an effect or spending fourth dimension amongst my friends inwards gild to report a trivial harder as well as run toward an A. I own got an end-goal inwards hear as well as don’t desire to position it off.”
Meghan sailed through her high schoolhouse gifted classes inwards Portland, Maine. But, when it came to college she position on the brakes. She idea a four-year schoolhouse was her exclusively option, merely when she looked at the terms she got sticker shock. She was fifty-fifty to a greater extent than afraid of going into debt than she was of heights. Plus, she didn’t know what she wanted to do. So she went to work.
Life events brought Meghan to Richmond. Curiosity brought her to the Reynolds website. She read close the Honors Program, she read close transfer options, she calculated the cost, as well as she registered. The rest, equally they as, is history. “The Reynolds Honors Program has given me the infinite to abide by out who I am as well as what I desire to do. I own got been able to explore fields of involvement I powerfulness non own got gotten to explore, as well as inwards the procedure I own got laid my goals as well as am on my way.” And Meghan has non looked back.
“One of my greatest challenges has been to convey that non everything I run for is slowly to get. Some subjects, similar biology, are difficult for me. I own got had to acquire to inquire the correct questions to succeed. Now, when faced amongst tough fabric I inquire myself: “How tin give the sack I endure ameliorate at this? How tin give the sack I acquire this?” It’s a whole novel agency of thinking.” Critical thinking similar this is the offset pillar of the Reynolds Honors Program.
When asked close a fun personal fact Meghan would desire others to know close her, she shared this: “I was a Maine State Champion inwards softball (catcher as well as shortstop) as well as cheerleading, as well as I own got visited 32 nation capitols.”
Really. Meet Meghan now, spell you lot own got the opportunity. Anyone who has visited 32 nation capitols as well as has interned for the Virginia General Assembly has about stories to tell.
