All About Me

Olivia Malzahn


I am 19 years old and a sophomore at East Carolina University. I have gone through many different phases in my short life. I was born in Michigan but moved to North Carolina when I was four. I have lived a very active lifestyle and care a lot about health and fitness. 


I love to travel and want to travel around the world one day. One of the places I want to see the most is Greece and I possibly want to have my honeymoon there! I haven’t left the U.S. much, but I have been to Canada quite a few times because my mom was born there. I have only been to 8 different states but I’m hoping to increase that number in the future! I have two younger sisters. Ella, who just turned 18, and Sophia, who is 11. They are my everything and the reason I work so hard at everything I do. I also have a stepbrother, Evan, who is only 6 days younger than I am. I have three dogs, Vera, Hank, and Tito. Vera is a mutt that we rescued, Hank is a lab, and Tito is a chihuahua. 


I have many different hobbies and interests including playing sports, lifting weights, baking and cooking, and reading. I played soccer for 14 years, and volleyball for 6 years, and I’ve been lifting for 1.5 years. I love to sit down with a good book and some good music and read for hours. 


My hope for the future is to be a Labor and Delivery nurse. Before that, I am considering being a travel nurse, just so I can travel a bit and get some experience before I settle down into a specialty. But I have heard many wonderful things about becoming a L&D nurse and my cousin is one as well. I can work under pressure, which is essential for being a nurse because their job is to keep people alive. I am also able to think clearly in chaos and put other's needs before my own. 

These are my sisters and mom. Ella is the one in the volleyball jersey. Sophia is the one in the sweatshirt. My mom is in the blue t-shirt. 
This is my grandma and I. If you can't tell I am a big family person. 


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