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Who Am I?

Hi everyone, I'm Y. Levine! (I've censored my name for Google search indexing purposes, now that I'm entering the workforce.)

I go by they/them pronouns. I don't have a super-big presence at CTY, because I was a flying squirrel. I attended RWU 17.1 (Zoology), JHU 18.1 (Linguistics), and SAR 19.1 (Cognitive Psychology). I'm a part of the Skidmore Friendship Cult; I was one of the remarkably few trans kids I met along the way; and if your friends ever talk about "that one kid who ran around at SAR aggressively blowing a kazoo at people," that was me too.

I don't have a squirrel parent, but there were people at every site who made my life better along the way. Special appreciation for the Skidmore Friendship Cult, my classmates, and the cats who roamed RWU campus.

In 2026 I earned my bachelor's degree in psychology from JHU, after working in a linguistics lab there, and I'm now going to law school at UMBaltimore. I very much credit CTY with encouraging my interest in psychology and linguistics, and I loved my time in undergrad, especially seeing the new CTYers on campus over the summers :-)

Favorite Notable Quotables 2018

• "I don't think the German state sees FIFA as a father figure." - me, 18.1
• "It's a great day to hide in a bush." -me, 18.1
• "Are you a bandage??" - me, 18.1
• "What is... box?" - Io, 18.1
• "Oranges are God's ziploc bags." - Madison, 18.1
• "He killed a man. I can feel it." - Rosa, 18.1
• "This is a car." - Luke, 18.1
• "But I don't want you to wake up and scrunch my eyebrow!" - Lynn, 18.1
• "I was busy karate fighting in their room, I didn't get your toothpaste." Meiling, 18.1

Favorite Notable Quotables 2019

• "A velociraptor is NOT a drug." - me, 19.1
• "If you're not reliable you're not valid." - me, 19.1
• "John, where's the spray bottle?" - me, 19.1
• "Schadenfreude doesn't involve, sort of, like- HEHEHE." - John, 19.1
• "You can infer that depression kirby became depression kirby because he ate someone depressed." - John, 19.1
• "OH MY GOD BABY, FALL INTO THE ABYSS! I'M TIRED OF YOUR LATE NIGHT SHRIEKING, FALL INTO THE ABYSS!" - John, 19.1
• "So we're trying to teach kirby to rave" - John 19.1
• "Oh, it's not even a grad student, oh god. It's a post-doc." - John, 19.1
• "Your Pepsi's a parseltongue." - John, 19.1
• "I worked in a social psych lab, and my job was to, like, tell people that they had no friends and that they'd die alone and that's why I never went into social psych." - John, 19.1
• "West virginia, pika pika, take me home, crunchy toads!" - John, 19.1
• "How much chunk of light was coming out?" - John, 19.1
• "You assume I'm not a baby." - John, 19.1
• "An illegal cinnamon-dealing operation!" - Nat, 19.1
• "IF THAT MONKEY DOESNT DO WELL IM GONNA BE A N G R Y" - Nat, 19.1
• "Pain is temporary, t-posing is eternal." - Isidora, 19.1
• "Fits enough to fit." - Leah, 19.1
• "I don't work out. I'm a mechanic." - Tre/Donzell, 19.1
• "You know who's prettier [than Hayley Kiyoko]? The girl from that movie yesterday. She made my ovaries quake." - Reine, 19.1
• "MY OVARIAN LINIIIIING" - Reine, 19.1
• "The ttthalmy bbboi- the thalamus!" - Burke, 19.1
• "Any of you guys tried my idea?" "What was his idea again?" "Murder." - Burke, Natalie Chang, Nat, 19.1
• "Loneliness, depression, and old age?" "YES, that's me!" - Nina, Nat, 19.1

Comments

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Happy love tape day!

happy love tape day yona!
- lauren schwartz :)

Happy love tape day!
- Connor

Trivia

• I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was very young. Then I took an arrow to the knee. (Just kidding. I got glasses.)
• I'm a Gemini, and my birthday is June 9.
• My favorite animal is the planarian. They're adorable. Look them up.
• I'd never been to Passionfruit before 19.1.
• The kazoo thing started at Casino Night 19.1, because Sebastian, Tre, and I found kazoos hidden all over the case center and proceeded to do a rendition of Africa onstage. Contrary to popular belief, this was not a Godfather dare.
• My favorite superhero is Daredevil.
• When I first wrote this, I liked the colors purple, black, and gold most. Now I wear near-exclusively red, black, and silver. Turns out gold washes me out.
• I had never heard many of the canon songs (e.g. House of Gold, Blister in the Sun) before CTY.
• Even though I'm not the best raver, I brought it to the other summer camp I regularly attended. During COVID I switched from spinning poi to levitation wand. In undergrad, I did flow arts with the Johns Hopkins Entertainers' Club for a little while and then stepped back to focus on theater leadership. I still have my levi wand, though!
• My name directly translates to either Dove or Pigeon. This has led to many nicknames (primarily Pigeon or Pidge).
• I took 6 years of Italian in middle/high school, and then 2 years of American Sign Language in undergrad.
• My undergraduate research was in sign linguistics, with a healthy dose of sociolinguistics and social psychology. Sorry, John; I know you tried to warn me about social psychology, but in my defense, it was pretty different research.
• I accidentally tried to get breakfast at 7 AM my first year at SAR, which led to one of the RAs thinking I was trying to sneak out. I was not trying to sneak out. I was just hungry, and I didn't realize the dining hall wasn't open yet.