Flynn Looking Forward to College Life

Kathleen Flynn counts meeting new people and taking classes she enjoys as two things she’s looking forward to about college. She counts missing family and doing her own laundry as two of the things that make her nervous.

Laundry skills will come easily and quickly to the graduating Jefferson Township High School senior, who will deliver a speech as salutatorian at Wednesday night’s graduation ceremony.

Flynn has been active in the music program as a flute player during her high school years, participating in band, wind ensemble, jazz band, pit orchestra and the community band. She is also part of the anti-smoking group REBEL (Reaching Everyone By Exposing Lies), National Honor Society, Habitat for Humanity, soup kitchens, peer tutoring, French Club, French Honor Society, the Tri-M Music Honor Society, the Falcon Forum school newspaper, and Rodney Frelinghuysen’s advisory council.

Flynn will head off to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY in the fall, majoring in biomedical engineering with a concentration in imaging and medical instrumentation.

“I chose this school because I loved it when I went for the visit there,” she said. “I got to meet the professors in the department, and I got to play with their orchestra. I’m looking forward to being part of that.”