Contributors2023
Although Eshan Agarwal had many ideas of what to write for his bio, they were too depressing to be included. Eshan loves writing, but he often is overcritical of his work, leading to procrastination and missing deadlines. He hopes to be more comfortable and confident in future endeavors as he moves on from The Masters School.
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Charlie Anhouse is eighteen years old and was born and lives in Westchester New York. He enjoys annoying his friends, hands-on creativity and design, and really just anything he can build himself. Naturally, this will lead him to pursue Industrial Design in college next year at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Ava Bashew is an eighteen-year-old from upstate NY. She was raised in Mexico for four years during her childhood. She dreams of moving back there to eat mango and master the guitar after her academic career. She often finds herself in creative spaces and loves to sing, perform, and collage. Ava will be attending FIT in the fall for Fashion Business Management and hopes to feed her craving for spontaneity in New York City.
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Chris Nappo lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, although has lived in Westchester County, New York for most of his life. He is a student, athlete, and ceramicist who will continue his passions for both technology and art at Lafayette College in the fall. When he isn’t throwing pottery on the wheel or lifting weights, he enjoys hanging out with his identical twin brother Alex.
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Dayan Battulga is a 17-year-old senior who lives in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and likes to write his stories too descriptively, often focusing on the setting rather than on the characters. He enjoys programming, karaoke, and purposefully embarrassing his friends in public. He doesn't know where life will take him, but he is ready to jump at any opportunity given to him.
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Esmé Talenfeld is a seventeen-year-old living in Nyack, New York with a red Mini Cooper and no driver's license. In her time at Masters, she has worked her way up the bureaucratic ladder to become the editor-in-chief of Panache, president of Outspoken, and queen of the school! Esmé will continue her reign at Yale University where she will be studying Humanities.
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“Buccal-ing Me Fat?”: Buccal Fat Removal And the Eternal Pursuit of Beauty
Gisele lives in Westchester NY, and has been a student at The Masters School for eight years. Gisele has been a competitive dancer in genres lyrical, contemporary, jazz, and ballet, since she was five years old. She is currently a part of Tower, the school's newspaper, because she greatly enjoys journalistic writing and interviewing.Gisele is going to attend American University in the fall, where she will double major in Journalism and Political Science.
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Hanna Frasca is a seventeen-year-old from Palisades, New York. She is a Visual Artist who will soon be attending college in New York City to study Fine Arts. When not at her desk in the art loft, she is most likely at home sitting on the lawn with her dogs, or at the barn down the road with her horses. New to creative writing, she is excited to have found yet another creative outlet in which she can only hope to continue to learn and grow.
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Gabi Wang currently resides in New York, but is originally from Tokyo. She feels that her unique family background is what makes her writing different and interesting to read. She hopes to improve her writing in the future.
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Morgan Young is a 17 year old from Mount Vernon NY. She is one of the few seniors who have attended Masters since the lowest possible entry of fifth grade. She is an active member of DoPa and enjoys practicing both in school and with her friends (a lot). . She loves all things creative, such as singing, writing, acting and more. Morgan will be going to Howard University in the fall where she will study theater and hopefully music.
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Marco Ferrando. Marco is a senior at the Masters School. He has a twin brother, David, as well as 2 older siblings who also happen to be twins. He also has 2 German Shepards. Marco enjoys playing soccer, spending time with friends, and being involved with the creative industry on the side. At the time of writing this biography, he is still unsure as to where he will be attending, but will most likely end up somewhere in Boston.
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Maia Barantsevitch is an 18 year old senior, who lives in the middle of the unvisited town of Elmsford. When she isn't rotting in her bed editing spotify playlists, she is spending hours hunched over a robot with her all-girls robotics team (woohoo!). Maia hopes to continue this passion in college by majoring in environmental engineering at Boston University.
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Will Tarica is a filmmaker attending Occidental College in Los Angeles next year. He is currently working on several short films including a documentary about Youri Lee.
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Sophia Semczuk is a senior at the Masters School. She's dabbled in both creative and analytical writing in her eighteen years of life, and is going to be studying English at Barnard College next year, which she is equal parts nervous and excited for. She may want to pursue law in the future, but for now, she is most concerned with acquiring a high school diploma.
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Youri Lee is a senior at The Masters School from Busan, South Korea. He is not the most humanities-oriented person, but he enjoyed the Creative Nonfiction class and studying the genre. He plans to dedicate more time to personal essays instead of finance papers in the future. Youri will spend a year in Jordan to learn Arabic and then attend Columbia University the following year.
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