Howdy-Sydney Taylor

For those of you reading this, my name is Sydney Taylor. I really don't like these introduction assignments where you basically have to attempt to show people the highlights of your personality in a short amount of time because when I'm called upon to tell people things about myself, in an instant I forget everything interesting about myself. This applies even with the week-long time span I had to complete this. My academic goals don't range very far from the average academy student's. I want to get decent grades and pass as many of my AP tests as I can. I joined the Speech and Debate Team last year because giving speeches is pretty fun and I had a lot of encouragement from my favorite teacher, Mr. Ray. This summer, I went to a speech camp at WKU and while there I wrote an oratory for competition about people's inaction when it comes to solving big problems in the world. This was before the ALS ice challenge craze or I probably would have included some analysis on that. Recently what has geeked me out a lot is a newish talk show called Last Week Tonight hosted by John Oliver. I like to know about current events in the world, but I prefer when someone else sorts through it to find the most important points and then gives it hilarious and slightly cynical commentary. I watch entirely too much tv, I'm pretty into old movies, I'm a big fan of Reds baseball, if I could have any super power it'd be the power to read peoples' minds, and I would love to live anywhere on the beach especially Charleston, South Carolina.

This is me and two friends at camp this summer.

I don't really have a favorite website, but here's a link to one of my personal favorite episodes of Last Week Tonight?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgSEwjAeno