Senior Spotlight: Mandee Hyland

Mandee Michelle Hyland, a New Year’s baby of 2002, is now 18 years old. She is the daughter of Jeff and Michelle Hyland. She has a little brother named Preston and her pets include her two dogs, Molly and Rosie. She lives in the small South Dakota town of Madison with her family, but if she was able to live anywhere in the world for a year, she would want to live in Australia. Her purpose of wanting to live there is to conquer her fear of bugs and spiders. After she graduates, she plans on going to Stewart Beauty College to become a cosmetologist, as well as a massage therapist. After graduating and becoming licensed, she wants to start her own business and have a family. She plans on having four of her own children and adopting two teens. 

If she was allowed to do anything without the possibility of failure, she would want to become a professional pop/country singer. She would like the ability to breathe underwater because then she could never drown.  On the topic of being underwater, if she were a character from a cartoon, she would be Gary the Snail from the acclaimed tv series, Spongebob Squarepants. The reason she chose Gary is that he’s always there in the background; you don’t notice him, but at the same time, he is one of the most important characters on the show. If it weren’t for Gary, Spongebob would have forgotten how to tie his shoes. But Spongebob Squarepants is not Mandee’s favorite show. Lucifer, the lord of the underworld himself, has a television show now.  It’s her favorite show and it’s four year anniversary is coming up very soon. The reason she loves this show is due to the suspense and the drama in it. It’s so predictable yet not. She also loves it due to the fact that Lucifer is really cool and tough, but he’s also a huge softy. 

If Mandee won 5 million dollars she wouldn’t go on a spending spree, but instead, she would give most of it back to her father for all the things he has done for her. The rest of the money would go into savings for future needs.