While at Lehigh, I focused on cybersecurity and data science topics. My favorite course was the Programming Languages course taught by Professor Gang Tan. In this course, I learned about programming paradigms and gained a stronger foundation in object-oriented and functional programming design. I also got more exposure to Python, my favorite programming language.

For my degree in English, I studied topics ranging from early modern literature to contemporary short stories and television. My favorite course was Shakespeare with Professor Jenna Lay, in which we close-read many Shakespeare plays and poems. I earned departmental honors by completing a literary theory course and an undergraduate thesis. For my thesis, I analyzed Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. I explored the relationships between film and reality, metafictional and real-world films, and World War II and the Cold War. I also incorporated my computer science knowledge to build a digital humanities tool to help me search through this lengthy novel for references to film topics.

At the Marine Academy of Science and Technology, I took classes in marine sciences and developed skills in technical writing and design through two systems engineering courses. I also participated in the NJROTC program at MAST and took four naval science courses. One of my proudest moments at MAST was forming the school's Book Club senior year, where we discussed a new novel each month.