Student of the Week Greenon High School

Austin Leist is the Student of the Week from Greenon High School. CONTRIBUTED

Austin Leist is the Student of the Week from Greenon High School. CONTRIBUTED

Name: Austin Leist

School: Greenon High School

Grade: 12th

Age: 18

Extra-curricular: class president, member of National Honor Society, member of Spanish Honor society.

Claim to fame/honors: holding state honors and have over 30 college credits.

Words you live by: amor fati, roughly meaning “love of fate” or “one’s fate.” This essentially means that whatever happens to you is for a reason, and that you should appreciate your life, no matter the events that take place.

Toughest challenge: Starting college courses as a Sophomore as I was taking multiple classes through multiple schools.

Biggest influence: Robin Williams

School-day rituals: making sure to pack my water bottle

What’s on your bedroom walls: Some of my nostalgic items from my youth to remind me where I came from.

When I’m bored I like to … think about what I could be doing better.

Favorite movie: A Silent Voice

Person who would play you in a movie: Ed Sheeran

Favorite TV show: Criminal Minds

Favorite musical artist: Juice Wrld

Favorite book: The Giver

Favorite home-cooked meal: My mother makes the best spaghetti and my father makes baked spaghetti, which are both my absolute favorite dishes they make.

Favorite restaurant: Texas Roadhouse.

Whose mind would you like to read: Stephen Hawking’s mind to see what he was thinking of during his numerous lectures.

Place where you’d love to travel: Dubai

Talent you’d like to have: magic

Favorite school subject: Math

Favorite athlete: Michael Phelps

Favorite team: Ohio State football team.

Something in the world I’d like to change: the universal standards people think they need to follow.

Favorite high school moment: I got to recreate The School of Athens painting with my AP European History class.

Favorite junk food: Funyuns with Ruffles Cheddar Cheese chips

Best thing about high school: making connections with people and understanding others.

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