About Me!

Hello! I’m Michelle, a third-year, Public Health major and Environmental Analysis and Design minor. I was originally an EAD major, but then realized it would be a good idea to a stronger foundation for jobs later on, so changed to Public Health. I’m from Belmont, California, a suburb of the San Francisco bay area. I grew up in the same house my whole life with both parents and my younger sister, who’s a first year at UCLA now. I grew up without watching much television and therefore know very little about 80’s and 90’s culture, unlike many of my friends. I’ve always liked art, but never dabbled too much in it, but watch a lot of movies, I am a big fan of Wes Anderson and Michele Gondry films. Amy Sedaris is my role model.

I had a period of time in high school where I read a lot of books, and then I kind of stopped. I have been trying to get back into reading, and I am really enjoying The Botany of Desire, so that is exciting. It’s just up my alley actually, and I can relate to the writing, or thinking, style of Michael Pollan. I listened to a lot of hardcore in high school, but gravitated towards more folk and hip hop as of late. I’m listening to a lot of Comeback Kid, Blacklisted, MF Doom, Jurassic 5, Maria Taylor. A huge part of my UCI experience was being a SPOP (Student Parent Orientation Program) staffer this past summer. It really changed my life and opened my eyes in many ways, so this is a shameless plug, because applications are out for the staff for Summer 2008. J

I have never really been directly exposed to organized religion, so never really understood what it was all about. So in that respects I don’t like to see religion playing a part of politics. I am more liberal about most political topics, and for forward movement.