Name: Jennifer Barnes

Hometown: The Woodlands, TX

Class Year: 2011

Major/Minor: Vocal Performance / Philosophy

Extracurricular Activities: Wooster Chorus, Opera workshop, Relay for Life team, tango lessons

Favorite Free Time Activity: When the weather permits, sitting outside behind Babcock on a blanket either reading or just relaxing with friends.

Favorite Lowry Food: The breadsticks at ‘Noodles’, really, they are wonderful

Advice for Incoming First-Year Students: Experience as much as you can.  This goes for classes as well as campus activities.  This is your first time to start figuring out who you are apart from the life that you’ve known up until this point, and it is amazing what you can learn if you step out of what is familiar to you.

Favorite Wooster Memory:  Chorus tour over spring break. To travel to places that I’ve never seen before and get to share the experience with 54 other people was amazing. We’d drive six hours, rehearse, sing a concert, go to bed, and then wake up and do it all over again up the west coast. It was a lot of work, but it was unbelievably rewarding. We got free time to spend in San Francisco and Seattle, and I am a firm believer that the best way to experience a new place is to just wander around exploring with friends.