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About MeMy name is Austin Thatcher. I have the distinct honor of representing Sierra Madre Nacimiento Village as its Resident Assistant, a position I am elated to earn and one I treat with reverence.
In the summer of 2016, I joined my father for a visit to his alma mater, University of California Santa Barbara. I felt immediately at home. Being just on the edge of the ocean every day, the sea breeze, the cool weather, it all gripped me in a way that a physical location has yet to do in quite the same way. The bike path access to campus made so much sense to me that I could not understand why bike path access was not more prevalent in other towns. What sold me, though, was seeing the UCSB crew rowing out onto the lagoon, and I knew at that moment that rowing would be my next sport. After five years of community college from 2017-2022, two years as a theater major during the pandemic, an associate degree for transfer in English and a newfound love for rock climbing and mountain biking, I finally made it to the University of California, Santa Barbara, to make my father and myself proud. I joined crew for my first year, all the while discovering the branching off from English to discover Linguistics. As a Linguistics major with emphasis in Speech-Language Sciences and Disorders and a recently developed interest in Law, I consider communication one of my strengths, and speaking, engagement, and interpersonal relations to be my passionate areas of development. When I am not outside or on the rock wall, I am studying Spanish and Italian, writing stories, feverishly searching for new music, and beatboxing. |