Catching up with Anthony Priolo
Anthony Priolo has only been away from Huntington High School for a few months, but he’s already making a mark at Johns Hopkins University, tackling some very tough classes and participating in related activities.
Mr. Priolo was one of the most accomplished members of Huntington’s Class of 2008 and he held down a spot on the Blue Devil wrestling team, too. At Johns Hopkins he doesn’t have much time for sports, but he is looking forward to the winter break and returning to the Huntington wrestling room for a good workout.
“Everything is going well,” he said last week from Baltimore. “School is hard with big classes for the basic stuff. I'm taking Macroeconomics, Discrete Mathematics, Calculus III and Physics I along with its lab. It’s 16 credits, but it’s a lot because of taking two math classes at a time. I need to take that many at a time, though, since I'm an Applied Math major. I'm also going to probably minor in financial economics.”
At Johns Hopkins, Mr. Priolo is also a member of the Applied Math club, which consists of a series of seminars centering on the application of math, with a focus on financial areas. He also attends seminars on economics and Wall Street related topics.
In his free time on campus the Huntington grad goes to the gym to workout and hangs around on the floor of his dorm. “My floor happens to be great, since everyone is social and we all just hang out in the common room together,” he said. “About 15-20 of us have become pretty decent friends.”
His focus right now is squarely on “trying to get the best grades I can here,” he said. “All I can say about the difficulty is that it’s a lot different when you go to a school where everyone else is just as smart as you, as opposed to high school where I could breeze by without doing homework or studying.”
At Huntington, Mr. Priolo earned a New York State Scholarship for Academic Excellence and a PTSA scholarship. His former Huntington teachers have no doubts that he will be well-prepared for whatever challenges he faces at Johns Hopkins.
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