20 Questions with Aryanna Chutkan

PJ: What’s the first thing you do every morning?

AC: The first thing I do every morning is check social media/Skype and shower.

PJ: What’s one thing on your bucket list?

AC: Travel to all of the continents.

PJ: Coke or Pepsi?

AC: Coke.

PJ: What did you want to be when you were a kid?

AC: A lot of things, mostly a doctor or lawyer.

PJ: What could you eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?

AC: For breakfast I’d have a muffin or chorizo burrito, for lunch I'd have curry or a burrito, and dinner I'd probably have curry or stir fry.

PJ: If you could have coffee with any person, living or dead, who would it be?

AC: I would have coffee with Malcolm X.

PJ: Beyoncé or Rihanna?

AC: Beyonce (sorry Rih).

PJ: Kittens or Puppies?

AC: Puppies

PJ: What’s one thing no one knows about you?

AC: I actually really enjoy statistics as a subject.

PJ: What’s one book you would recommend? 

AC: Wildwood by Colin Meloy, and Egghead by Bo Burnham (I know that’s two but they're both charming and quirky in really different ways).

PJ: What’s the best song on your playlist right now?

AC: Definitely, “I will Send your Flowers Back” by Hinds.

PJ: Do you have a favorite movie?

AC: Atm I would say Camp X Ray it was just so fantastically written and acted

PJ: Who’s your favorite OHS teacher?

AC: Definitely Dr. Lamont

PJ: What’s your favorite emoji?

AC: The sparkly heart 

PJ: What’s your biggest dream?

AC: My biggest dream is to do something that changes the world for the better in a lasting way.

PJ: If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be?

AC: I would change the way that we think about people who are less fortunate than us.

PJ: What’s your favorite OHS class?

AC: AP ELC (English Language and Composition).

PJ: Graduation Weekend or Summer @ Stanford?

AC: Summer @ Stanford.

PJ: What do you want to do after high school?

AC: I want to study foreign policy and study abroad.

PJ: Finally, what’s one piece of advice for OHSers?

AC: High school is not everything. A lot of us get very focused on how we can look impressive during high school and we forget to live our lives and be teenagers, so my biggest piece of advice would be: remember to take some time off of the academic grind to be a teenager and pursue hobbies and things you aren't necessarily fantastic at.