I’m a senior at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights and a lifelong New Yorker. Growing up in Lower Manhattan, surrounded by construction cranes and shifting skylines, my curiosity about how cities evolve turned into a passion for architecture and design. My days shift between jazz rehearsals, varsity baseball, and personal projects like sketching the skyline or transforming old materials into new forms. Each setting offers a different way to experiment, collaborate, and explore how ideas take shape in the world around me. Studying architecture is a way to keep exploring that connection.