My name is Melanie and I’m a rising junior from Connecticut. I’m a linguistics and sociology/anthropology double major with an intended focus in sociolinguistics, mixed race studies, and bilingual education. My extracurricular interests include drawing, painting, playing my keyboard, humming the same 10 second section of a song over and over again until someone yells at me, writing in my journal, and talking to my dog as if she is a human (she is).