2020 Honors Mentors

Mentors apply in December of each year and are selected based on their application, student involvement, GPA, and an interview. Students are trained throughout the Spring semester and serve as Honors Mentors, leading a group of incoming Honors students the following Fall semester.

2020 Mentors:

		Name: Miles Bednorz Major: History Hometown: College Station, Texas Quote: “Trust your gut. It knows what it’s doing.”
		Name: Fabiana Chaparro Major: Broadcast Journalism Hometown: Katy, Texas Quote: "Making beautiful things is enough."
		Name: Frank Eddy Major: Music Education Hometown: Mission, Texas Quote: “Life is strange when you’re supposed to be an adult but still consider dinosaur chicken nuggets a gourmet meal.”
		Name: Mohammad Farhan Major: Biology Hometown: Lahore, Pakistan Quote: "Once I accepted all the absurdities of life, I finally grew into who I wanted to be. Embracing anything and everything that came my way, I began to appreciate the beauty in adversity."
		Name: Bhavana Gollapudi Major: Accounting Hometown: Hyderabad, India Quote: “Always be the first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else!”
		Name: Nikki Hammond Major: Chemical Engineering Hometown: Sugar Land, Texas Quote: “Life is like riding a bicycle to keep your balance you must keep moving.” - Albert Einstein
		Name: Kennard Hitchcock Major: Chemical Engineering Hometown: Auckland, New Zealand Quote: “My sleep schedule may have been ruined by this semester but anything for my GPA.”
		Name: Hannah Ho Major: Psychology Hometown: Houston, Texas Quote: "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Rand
		Name: Jacob Huling Major: Political Science Hometown: Magnolia, Texas Quote: “What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.” - Hugh Jackman
		Name: Paris Jordanger Major: Psychology Hometown: Ashland, Virginia Quote: “Once more into the fray, into the last fight I’ll ever know.”
		Name: Xavier Kaleemullah Major: Liberal Studies Hometown: Pearland, Texas Quote: “I'm not saying I'm Batman. I'm just saying that nobody has ever seen me and Batman in a room together.”
		Name: Zayd Latheef Major: Supply Chain Management Hometown: Pearland, Texas Quote: "It ain't about how hard you hit: It's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. It's how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done." - Rocky Balboa
		Name: Jetson Le Major: Environmental Science Hometown: Houston Texas Quote: “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”– Frederick Douglass
		Name: Cassidy Lee Major: Spanish / Political Science Hometown: Sheridan, Wyoming Quote: “If nothing can save us from death, at least love saves us from life.” -Pablo Neruda
		Name: Daniel Lee Major: Hotel and Restaurant Management Hometown: Pearland, Texas Quote: “Chacun voit midi à sa porte.”
		Name: Anna Mayzenberg Major: Management Information Systems Hometown: Missouri City, Texas Quote: "Comfort is diametrically opposed to education." -Dean Monroe, Honors Retreat 2019
		Name: Camila Pombo Major: Economics Hometown: Mexico City, Mexico Quote: “College is like driving on a beautiful afternoon: gotta focus on your destination while also allowing yourself to enjoy the sunset view. Sometimes there’ll be traffic or necessary detours, but you know that in the end, you will get there. Remember, it is all about the journey.”
		Name: Erin Sappington Major: Accounting Hometown: Houston, Texas Quote: “Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.” - Bob Kerrey
		Name: Adelaide Stevens Major: Civil Engineering Hometown: Baton Rouge, Louisiana Quote: “Salmon swim upstream and basically? That's college life.”
		Name: Sara Syed Major: Public Health Hometown: Tomball, Texas Quote: “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go it laughing.” - Herman Melville
		Name: Kristine Ubina Major: Accounting Hometown: Garland, Texas Quote: "The top of one mountain is the bottom of the next, so keep climbing.” - André De Shields
		Name: Naomi Zidon Major: English Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria Quote: “Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress” - Anonymous