Louisa Christy is a senior orchestra major, and is the president of LVA’s Mu Alpha Theta. She has a minor in film and plays the harp. Since kindergarten, Christy always wanted to attend LVA especially since both of her older sisters attended. Her oldest sister was a choir major while her middle sister was an orchestra major. She was fascinated by the LVA community and what everyone had to offer. She always enjoyed seeing the arts and performance played by LVA and seeing people have the passion they have for their art, whether it is music, visual arts, dance or theatre. She has been playing the harp since she was six and a half years old, it took her down the path to eventually becoming an orchestra major.
Although math wasn’t Louisa’s strongest subject, she grew to like it as math had structure and stated that numbers has a sort of “permanence” that cannot be recreated in any other subject. Before joining Mu Alpha Theta, she was two years ahead of math, starting in Algebra II while the regular path for freshmen was Algebra I. She joined Mu Alpha Theta during the second semester of her freshman year and decided to stick with it to this day. She enjoyed the experience with her friends who had leadership positions, and in junior year her friend recommended that she ran for president of Mu Alpha Theta next in senior year, but she felt hesitant. Despite that, she ran for president and ended up winning her senior year.
Louisa mentions how she loves the collaboration that Mu Alpha Theta offers, where people are able to communicate, make connections and overall have fun as they participate in projects for the club. She loves how many people from different math levels, whether it could be a person from Statistics, Pre-Calculus, or even Algebra I work together to make math fun and accessible for everyone. For example, people in Mu Alpha Theta collaborated together to create a 5-minute music video that teaches people about a certain math subject. In this case, Mu Alpha Theta created a 5-minute cover of the song, “Friends on the Other Side,”from a hit Disney movie called The Princess and The Frog. This video managed to be one of the candidates for winning the Math Minutes contest, being one of Louisa’s successes. In general, Louisa Christy enjoys and cherishes the moments she had in LVA as an orchestra major with a film minor, along with being president of Mu Alpha Theta.
