Hi! I’m Meredith Rein. I am going into my senior year of high school at Sequoyah High School, which is in Canton, Georgia. I am currently one of the head editors of Sequoyah’s yearbook, the Paragon, which basically entails that I am responsible for making sure the book is as refined and structurally accurate as possible. I adore Yearbook and could spend hours editing small details of each page. Aside from yearbook, I am the chair of my local library board. I volunteer at the library a lot because of that, and have really found a way to involve myself deeper in my community. Though, I don’t have a ton of time for it, I love to read. My favorite books are Normal People by Sally Rooney and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (thank you to my freshman year lit-comp teacher!). I also really enjoy listening to music and going to concerts. My favorite concert I have been to was Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which literally changed my life. However, I am going to Harry Styles at Madison Square Garden this fall, so that might change. I also love Broadway shows and anything theatrical, even though I have never done anything related to theater. The New York City dream will always loom relevant in my mind. Inverse to that interest, I love college football and attend multiple games a season.
My family is a massive part of who I am, including my chihuahua, Seamus, who is the absolute light of my life. My parents, who have given my sister and I the ability to see many places all around the world have provided me with so much perspective that broadens my scope of life every time I travel somewhere new.
As I’ve grown up, the movies and TV shows I have watched have inspired my love and determination towards my current goals. Discovering the television show, Glee, was detrimental to me. Rachel Berry, one of the main characters, made me feel seen in ways I never knew an “silly” musical show could. Rachel knows she’s talented and runs a strict program of seriousness. Nothing will get in the way of her goals, and that’s why she is so off-putting to some. She is commonly viewed as too much when she is being authentically herself. When I completed my first watch of the entirety of Glee, seeing Rachel’s growth from a stubborn, confident but shut-off Broadway wannabe to a Tony winning actress, gave me an inexplicable amount of hope. I, too, have been deemed as too much to specific crowds. But as long as I am determined to complete what I set my mind to, none of the negative adjectives some might use to describe me really matter. The movie La La Land changed my mindset as well. La La Land follows Mia and Sebastian, who are both aspiring pros in their respective passions (Mia: acting, Sebastian: jazz pianist) find each other in very unlikely circumstances. We go through the movie falling in love with the idea of them being a couple, believing that they are made for each other. But we reach a very important lesson in the end: passion is such a powerful concept, that in Mia and Sebastian’s case, couldn’t be individually satisfied if they were together. This ending invoked such a bittersweet feeling in me, but overwhelmingly taught me something similar to the story of Rachel Berry, which is that you must follow whatever you are passionate about despite the possible universal restraints.
Overall, I am a “thought daughter” (a term TikTok so eloquently created). I love thinking and having the opportunity to turn my thoughts, though sometimes scrambled, into something meaningful that others have the possibility to connect with. I love discussing things from classic girl drama to hard-hitting worldly problems with my friends. I love cracking open a crisp can of Diet Coke and watching whatever show I am locked in to at the moment. I am complex, yet incredibly simple, a contradicting nature that I believe follows me throughout every activity and relationship I partake in.
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