Inspirational Feature By J1 Reporter Vienna Tang

To any normal person, junior Lily Foley appears to be a faithful and hardworking student. They aren’t wrong when they think that. Foley has been hard working for all her life. Her parents have taught her from a very young age to study diligently. Foley attended St. Vincent De Paul which also challenged her and trained her to use a planner for organization.

Foley states that many of her family members are an inspiration to her, as well as close friends and classmates, and Pope John Paul II. The Pope is Foley’s hero because “he had to hide from nazis and [dealt] with the death of his [family] in different tragic ways…he persevered and came out with an even stronger faith in God” she said.

She might seem like a lot of the other Marian girls, but she has unique rules for technology. Devices such as her iPad and iPhone are prohibited from entering her room. Foley waves this off, claiming that “[she] has an office to work in anyways.”

Contrary to popular belief, Foley does have free time. When she is not burying herself in her school work, she spends her limited time with her family and friends. Fortunately, she always goes to Church and eats every dinner with her family. She states she also loves to run or read a book, if time permits.

Foley is really close to her family. She tells her mother and younger sister everything and they support each other no matter what. One could consider them best friends. “Home is a safe haven,” Foley states.

Doing homework thoroughly and paying close attention in school is hard enough, but to top it all off, Foley has to also manage her athletic club activities. She participates in trap, campus ministry, science club, and Decade Darlings, just to name a few. Some of these activities take 20 minutes, but others can take up to three hours.

Foley exclaims that she enjoys any classes that have to do with math, such as physics and chemistry. She wishes to work in the engineering or medical engineering field, “along the line of prosthetics, surgical robot arms, etc” she states. If she doesn’t find that this field is to her liking, she says she will just focus on the medical track.

A question that Foley gets asked frequently is if she ever gets stressed out. Of course she does, as any other human being would. “I talk to my dad, and I try to keep things in perspective, and I pray,” she said.

Even though Foley is busy 24/7, she manages to keep herself in check, and gets down to business. Never one to complain, she gets the job done, and thoroughly at that.