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Anna Drattell is seventeen years old, the daughter and granddaughter of Southern Italian immigrants and is moving from Larchmont, New York to Tulsa, Oklahoma. She will be attending the University of Oklahoma as a Philosophy major and pre-law, first-gen college student. She is known to talk excessively, not understand the concept of an indoor voice, and love ranting to people about her crazy late-night philosophical questions. Oh, and she constantly makes it known that her main personality trait is talking about how she is Italian and Jewish. L’chaim.
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Ava DiLorenzo is an 18-year-old adult woman who is super cool, pretty, humble, and talented. Ava joined the Masters community her junior year and is a five-day boarding student. When she isn’t trapped on campus, she is at her abode in Montclair, New Jersey with her mother and her dog, Duke. In the fall, she will be attending the University of Seville for a semester before moving into a chateau in France to study the art of film– because that is a normal thing to do.
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Dahlia Melnick has a dog named Cookie and lives with her parents in Upper Manhattan. She likes spending time with her friends and she used to play volleyball. She is planning to attend Skidmore College next fall.
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Daniella is a Ghanaian-born student who resides in New York. She enjoys looking out at picturesque landscapes and photographing scenes. When not daydreaming or sleeping or cracking jokes during class, she overthinks how the universe functions. Her hobbies are writing poems, short stories, and personal essays; however, she is going to study business at the University of Connecticut.
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Grace Radonis has found a passion for the arts at 18 years old; More specifically in illustration, painting , electric guitar, and vocals. Grace loves to spend her time outside of school and work venturing with friends, collecting manga, and hanging with her cat, Indigo.
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Isabella Shinkar lives in Yonkers, New York. She will be attending the University of North Carolina at Asheville to study music technology in the fall. Next year, catch her in the studio dual wielding guitars and selling beats to trash rappers. When not hustling or tussling, Neoma can usually be found wired to a pair of high-frequency headphones, surrounded by empty cans of LaCroix.
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Liv Stern is eighteen years old and lives in Westchester, New York. Though a new junior last year, she came just in time for the fun. Talkative, a people person, pancake enthusiast, creative writer, and dual actress and athlete, she is excited to take on Wake Forest University in the Fall to discover what she wants to do in life; it’s cool not to know guys.
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Olive Saraf is a seventeen year old from New York City. You may have seen her in the Writing Center, writing silly things on the board in Panache, or just roaming around in her extremely repetitive wardrobe. Olive will be attending Oberlin College in the fall to study English and Creative Writing.
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Oliver Peterson lives in Stamford, CT with his parents and dogs. You can often find him working on a piece of art, listening to music, basking in the sun, or all at the same time. He spends his free time in the company of friends and strangers, at home and places you’ll never know…
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Phoebe Radke does not like writing in the 3rd person, so she will get her friends to write about her. Some have called her an amazing friend, future star architect, paranoid as fuck (wh), one of the kindest people I know and she has missed English class like 5 times cause she thought she had a free. Phoebe has spent the last 6 years at Masters and the last two exclusively in the art loft, meeting some of the best people in her life right now. She will miss it all very much.
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Ryan Israel is eighteen years old and has been attending Masters since sophomore year. He is a fan of raw cookie dough, as everyone should be. A born and raised Floridian, he will be returning to Florida for college and studying Political Science at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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Tucker Smith lives in Westchester, New York. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing, and doing jigsaw puzzles. She once bought a 1940s typewriter from a flea market for hundreds of dollars below asking price, but never got around to repairing it for use. She will be attending Smith College in the fall.
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Tavin. I am Tavin
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William Lauinger is eighteen years old and was born and lives in New York. Following in the footsteps of his parents and his brother, he will pursue economics in college next year at Lafayette College. He spends most of his time annoying his friends.
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The Greatest Swordsmen Since Jack Sparrow
Zachary Katz is a 19-year-old residing in Westchester NY. He finds bios pointless as you would never be able to understand him using three sentences. He enjoys wry humor and blunt people.
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