By Juniper Rogers
Jenny Burch is a senior from Cooperstown, New York, double majoring in public
health and sociology. She works at the front desk in the Resident Life office and is the
head residential advisor for Crawford Hall. After college, she plans to attend graduate
school, “I never thought I would apply for grad school as a high schooler, but I’ve
realized, due to the way the culture is being built, you kinda have to get a leg up. I like
to say that grad school is what college was 50 years ago. I feel incredibly lucky to be
applying to grad school while I also acknowledge this is not something everyone can
or wants to do.”
“I have an unhealthy obsession with dolmas, they’re stuffed grape leaves, a greek
delicacy.”
In regards to Jenny’s quest for a master’s in public health, she said “I’m really
interested in sex education, not teaching it, but going from receiving great sex
education up in New York and hearing how wildly different my Virginia friends
experience with sex education was really shocked me. My big thing is I want to change
policy on it because every state has different laws on what they teach, which is
incredibly unfair. Education is power and health!”
“Here’s a fun fact: the chemicals within newspapers and old books make you want to
poop. So if you’ve ever gone to the library or a Barnes&Noble and wanted to use the
restroom in no time, that’s why.”
“If you have ever wanted to become a tree, just search up ‘tree burial pods’ and it’s a
beautiful process for directly decomposing your body into a tree after you die. From
death comes life.”
Jenny wants to thank “all of my friends, my professors, and my cat, Frank the orange
cat.”
