Krishna Patel

Hometown: Waycross, GA

Ware County High School

Role Models: Steve Jobs, Olympic Gymnasts

Random Fact: I like reading dark and depressing quotes because they inspire me for some reason. (Favorite quote: Macbeth's Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow soliloquy)

Favorite Movies: Wolf of Wall Street and The Great Gatsby (I watch both of these every 2 months)

Qualities that allow me to bring people together: I know how to have fun and make people feel like they are heard.

Literature that has impacted me greatly: Joan Didion's "On Self-Respect"

Random Talents: Can throw up "Blood" in .5 seconds, creating random arts and crafts, planning events, BEST birthday card maker

Favorite Pastime: Driving around on a sunny day with the windows down and blasting jams

If I had to be an animated character who would I be: Jack Sparrow

Tangent Goals: skydive, base jump, ride a hot air balloon, spend a day and a night in the desert, chase a tornado, live in Greece, have a star named after me

Favorite Books: Magic Treehouse Series, Outliers, The Great Gatsby, The Kite Runner

What others have said of me:

"She is very intense and passionate about her dreams...whatever she wants, she will run after it until she has it" ~Vandan (my brother)

"Krishna, you are the type of person that dreams so big, it is impossible for you to sit idly. You can not just reach for the moon, you have to conquer other galaxies" ~Dad

"She manages to persevere. She gets really anger and mad when things don't work out, yet she always cools down and tries again." ~Mom

"When she is around other people, she shines. It is impossible for her not to make others laugh and feel comfortable." ~Selena (my best friend)