When students transcend the term “well-rounded”
Victoria Wright focuses on learning and playing her viola music. While the conductor focuses on a different section, Victoria happily reads over and edits a classmate’s AP Lang paper.
January 23, 2015
Senior Victoria Wright just might clinch the title of “most interesting woman at North Cobb.” With numerous hobbies balanced between AP classes and a job at Brusters, one wonders how she manages to keep her social life and sanity intact.
“Besides being in Magnet, I’m in the marching band [color guard], orchestra, and I serve as the president for Debate Team,” said Wright.
Victoria Wright, a model student in the Magnet program, enrolled in orchestra her sixth grade year. Now, many consider her as one of North Cobb’s most treasured violists in the chamber orchestra, the highest level orchestra class. She dedicates time outside of class to practice and further enhance her musical skills.
“I was in Model UN freshman year, but now I’m in Debate. I’ve been in Debate all four years of high school and now I am president, and I was president last year too. [It’s] fun because I am expanding the club,” said Wright. “We started off last year having only two people and now we have about fiffteen active members. I am trying to get it to twenty or thirty so that I can look back at the club and be proud.”
Victoria also possesses a special talent unknown to many: a passion for editing papers. Victoria took the AP Lang/APUSH bundle last year, despite being in the first Magnet class allowed the option to bundle or not. She took to the classes fondly and editing became one of her favorite activities.
“I fell in love with the class even though many of my other classmates hated it. The class was a ton of work, but it was super rewarding. My favorite part of it was that not only did you get to go through so many steps to create the best work that you could possibly write, but then you also got to work with other people and connect with them on an entirely new level, because you are helping them showcase their views of the world and their values through a paper. You’re not changing their style or values through editing, you are just making it easier for other people to understand. It is like you are creating a lense into their mind,” said Wright.
In the future, Wright aspires to attend Princeton in hopes of becoming an environmental lawyer.
“Ever since I took AP Environmental Science, I’ve thought about the hypocrisy and contradictions in the laws and how much of a difference it would make if someone really studied the environment and then made them,” said Wright.
