This past semester has presented many new challenges, with both the pandemic as well as academics. Fortunately at Boston College, they allowed many classes to be taught in-person in a hybrid format, where half the class is in-person and half is on Zoom. Luckily for me my classes were in a hybrid format. These classes introduced me to a new perspective as well as different ways of thinking. For example, I took Sacred Pages: The Bible, which is a class required to fulfill BC’s theology core. This class discussed the texts from the Bible and applied them to topics that are relevant in our society today. Analyzing how different groups of people would interpret these texts, and develop an understanding of how this influences different societies around the world. My favorite class was Econometrics Method, providing an intense, in-depth look at testing the predictions of economic theory, covering a wide range of topics including, multiple regressions, multicollinearity and heteroskedasticity. In addition we discussed how to analyze these regressions and how to adjust what we are testing in order to give us the most accurate and reliable results. This upcoming spring semester I am enrolling in both Environmental Economics and Public Finance to continue my track as an Econ major with a minor in Finance. I am grateful that I decided to go back to BC because even though it was challenging I was presented with many fulfilling and memorable experiences. This past year I continued to be a part of BC Bigs as well working in the Scouting & Personnel Department of the BC Football Team. Through BC Bigs I was able to continue to build my relationship with Adrian from last year, which was very important to me. Although we haven’t been able to meet in person, BC Bigs has held all of the meetings over Zoom, so I am still able to spend time with him for a couple hours over the weekend. As for working in the BC Football Department, it has given me an incredible opportunity and valuable experience for a potential profession on the front office side of football. Most of my time when I am not in class or doing school work, I am watching film of high school and college players across the country. I’ve been assigned a position group as well as a region in the country to look for potential recruits for BC. This has offered me the opportunity to work with coaches and personnel within BC Football Dept. to discuss evaluations on prospective players. This work is very time consuming, but I love it and it is something that I really enjoy doing. I am incredibly grateful for the work that MVYouth does to make these experiences possible for me and other Island students like me. Thank you.