By Kailyn Huynh
Senior Zander Sherry can always be found with a pair of headphones in his ears. Among many other things, music is his passion.
“I believe that it speaks to your soul,” Sherry said. “Music… it’s like another language.”
When Sherry first joined Baron Banner during his junior year, he had very little confidence in his writing and photography skills—ultimately applying for the class to get out of his comfort zone. Now, in his senior year, Sherry has become the co-sports editor for Baron Banner, the school’s student-run newspaper.
“Writing for this class is very different than writing essays for English or being given prompts and having to follow them because it really is student-run,” Sherry said.
Baron Banner has shaped a large part of Sherry, making him want to share what he has been taught with others.
Outside of school, Sherry has many hobbies: skateboarding, biking, practicing guitar and watching nature and space documentaries. His favorite documentary is a thirteen-episode series, “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
“I’m really passionate about looking at the reasons why we study science, and passionate about physics because of how much of the world it explains and still how much we have to learn, because we still don’t know everything,” Sherry said.
Scientists, and those who are, “at the forefront of change,” are a few of Sherry’s role models. He looks up to them because of “their push to always doubt themselves. To be a skeptic, [and] never be too confident in what you know, so that you can always learn from others.”
Whether he’s listening to music or biking to school, Sherry believes in living life to the fullest.
“You should be able to go about the world as you want,” he said.