For the senior class of Mead High School (and hopefully other schools as well), the last year of high school is almost over, and they’re starting to move into their next phase of life. Rebekah Dowlin is one senior who could not be more excited to graduate and continue into post-graduation adventures.

She plans to attend Creighton University and start a pre-law track where she’ll minor in philosophy and double major in journalism and political science. She shared, “I ultimately want to go into politics, so I want to start out in law… Journalism and political science kind of relate because you can carry them into law, and you can also carry them into politics, and it’s sort of exciting…” It’s easy to tell that Rebekah is passionate about politics, but if that career path doesn’t work out, she shared that her back-up plan is to work for the media.

Although she originally wanted to live in a big city after high school, Dowlin said she’s excited to get a change of scenery when she moves to Omaha, Nebraska in the middle of the summer. Along with the excitement of getting out on her own, she’s “looking forward to a lot of the clubs, a lot of the political organizations [she] will be joining, and swimming.”

Throughout high school, swimming has been Dowlin’s “one constant.” She shared, “I swam competitive, and I also swam for Silver Creek High School. As a team, we have won four conferences all four years and went almost undefeated. So that was pretty epic.”