Lauren Schmidt

My name is Lauren Schmidt, and I am a freshman at Texas State University. I am working towards an English degree, and I hope to continue on to graduate school. Writing is one of my greatest passions, and I hope to pursue it through both academic and fiction writing.

Aside from a great love of reading, I have also done a fair share of writing. Over the past five years, I have participated in and completed five sessions of National Novel Writing Month, a 30 day challenge for writers to write a 50,000 word draft of a novel. From these experiences, I have gained tremendous respect for everyone involved in the publishing industry.

In the past three years, I have been involved in Model United Nations, both on national and international levels. I have received awards at every conference, and won top honors at three. This spring, I will experience the other side of Model UN while working as a staff member for an international conference in New York.