Student of the Week is a series designed to help everyone at Mountain Vista High School learn more about their fellow classmates. This week: Junior Catherine Richman

Eagle Eye: What’s your full name?

Catherine Richman: Catherine Josephine Richman.

EE: Where were you born?

CR: Long Beach, California.

EE: What is your favorite color?

CR: Blue.

EE: What is something people don’t know about you?

CR: I partake in almost every band group and event.

EE: What do you do in your free time?

CR: I am a dancer and I play music.

EE: What is the most interesting thing that has happened to you at school?

CR: The state fair parade with band.

EE: What do you plan to do after high school?

CR: I want to go to Boston University to become a pediatrician.

EE: What got you interested in band?

CR: When I was in fourth grade, my neighbor played the flute and I wanted to do it. When fifth grade came around, my school had a position open and I did it.

EE: Why do you not play the flute anymore?

CR: There were no oboes in symphony band so I said that I would play it.

EE: What do you think of it?

CR: I love it. It is my favorite out of the four instruments I have played.

EE: What other two instruments have you played?

CR: The saxaphone and the clarinet.

EE: What are your goals for band?

CR: I want to be drum major.

EE: What made you want to become a pediatrician?

CR: I used to get sick a lot when I was young and I always had to go see awful doctors. Kids shouldn’t have to have horrible doctors and I absolutely love kids.

EE: What have you done so far to prepare for being a pediatrician?

CR: I’ve mostly been looking into good colleges.

EE: What would you do that would be different from the doctors you had as a kid?

CR: I wouldn’t talk to the parent, I would talk to the kid. The kid knows how they are feeling and I would connect with them one on one.

EE: What would you like to do for band in college?

CR: I want to take band classes and be involved in the band. I don’t want to major or minor in it though.

EE: What is your goal as a pediatrician?

CR: I want to have my own firm. I don’t want to work under someone and all of my family has a business of their own.