Student Spotlight: Haylee Morman

Student Spotlight: Haylee Morman

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Haylee Morman 

Senior, English with minors in Creative Writing and TESOL, and pursuing the Cursus Honorum with the Shackouls Honor College 

Hometown: 

Richmond, KY, but also lived in New Market, AL

Why English? 

Growing up, I was the kid who wanted to be everything under the sun -- literally. I wanted to be a firefighter, a pilot, a geneticist, a veterinarian, a photographer, a dancer, and probably more that I can't recall quite as vividly. I felt like I had thousands of lives stored away in my head and I wanted to live all of them, so when it came time to decide what I wanted to pursue officially, I was stumped. Then, it came to me: teach English. I come from a family of teachers. I've been reading since before I can remember. I love to write. Why not study English and give validity to those thousands of lives I dreamt about through words? Studying English was the only answer for me.

Clubs and Organizations: 

Current - The Reflector, The Streetcar, FLARE, Gamma Beta Phi Society, Phi Sigma Pi Honors Fraternity, College of Arts and Sciences Ambassador, Honors College Ambassadors, Bully's Bards, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta, MSU Creative Writers

Previous - Brickfire Mentoring Project, Conversation Partners, MSU Speech, Jabberwock Review, Freshman Reach, Honors Theatrics

Awards and Scholarships: 

Charles and Pat Lee Presidential Endowed Scholarship, Shelby Balius Loyalty Scholarship, Ann Pittman-Andrews Memorial Scholarship, Roger Lemoyne Dabbs Memorial Scholarship, Compass Scholarship, President's List, Joy Taylor Rieves 2024 Poetry Prize Winner, inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, 3rd place winner of 2024 MSU Undergraduate Poetry Writing Contest, 2nd place winner of 2023 MSU Undergraduate Poetry Writing Contest

Favorite Books Reads for Class: 

It's honestly hard for me to remember what I read for class versus what I read for fun. At some point, to fend off reading burnout, I started making it a priority to read for pleasure alongside reading for class so i wouldn't associate reading with work and start to dislike it. With that being said, I remember really enjoying Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza.

Hobbies: 

I'm slowly learning to crochet. I love music, reading, writing, baking, and photography. I'm also learning about yoga and quilting.