About Me

Hello, my name is Jacob Aehl, and I am a student at McFarland High School. It’s kind of difficult to completely describe yourself in a short essay, but I’ll do my best.

First, I’m a different person, or at least I’d like to think I am. I can’t really describe why I feel that I am, I just do.

I greatly enjoy listening to and playing music, although I wish I was better at the latter. I currently play saxophone and bass guitar, and I used to be able to play violin. Genre-wise, I usually enjoy listening to all types of music, although I do have my favorites. My favorite artists at this time are Green Day, Michael Buble, a Russian Orthodox choir, and Nathan Angelo.

Some other interests I have are reading, playing football(real football, not American football), painting and model building, Academic Decathlon, running, studying history, studying Russian, and spending time with friends. I have many more interests, but listing them all would take a long time and would also make this essay much longer than it needs to be. I enjoy reading history related material and science fiction. A couple of books I’ve read recently that I’ve enjoyed are The Gulag Archipelago and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, both by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

After high school, I plan on going to college, hopefully at the UW Madison. At college I am going to study Eastern European/Russian history and culture, and continue to study the Russian language. During and after college I eventually plan on re-visiting Russia and living there for at least a year, probably longer.