Christine Palmer is a first year student at Trinity. She is majoring in International Affairs and minoring in Language and Cultural Studies. She hopes to eventually become a translator for the United Nations in New York City or work for the US government in any way possible as a translator.

Christine earned her high school regent's diploma from Miller Place H.S. in Long Island, New York. This is where her interest in languages began. She began to learn Spanish as a second language in sixth grade. She also completed the National Spanish Exam two years later and placed in Honorable Mention. Also in 8th grade, Christine needed to take her Spanish proficiency and scored a 98.

By working at several different restaurants during her summers, she practiced speaking Spanish frequently with her fellow co-workers. As a result, she also picked up a few words in Greek, a language she found to be very complex. In her freshman year of high school, she tutored an eighth grade student in Spanish who had a lot of difficulty understanding the language. While serving as a tutor, she also completed her Spanish regents exam scoring a 99 on it. The following year, in 10th grade, she volunteered to do community service and work at a soup kitchen for the homeless where she was able to speak Spanish to some of the people who participated in the program.

In her junior year, she decided to pick up a third language and broaden her knowledge of languages. She chose Italian, which she found to be quite similar to Spanish. Christine had to skip level I of Italian and go right into level II because level I is only taught in middle school. This meant that she had to catch up on all of the basics of Italian on her own. By the end of her first year in Italian II, Christine had scored well enough on all of her tests to receive first place in the National Italian Poetry Contest, a competition that required her to memorize and recite a poem in Italian. Between her summer of her junior and senior year, Christine was tutored in Italian so she wouldn't forget was she had learned and to improve speaking the language.

Christine now has seven years of Spanish under her wing and two years of Italian. She is continuing her study of Spanish and is currently enrolled in a course for advanced or native speakers. She's excited for new experiences to come her way and hopes to study abroad in Spain where she'll be able to learn more and speak Spanish fluently. She feels that by being an International Affairs major at Trinity, she will be able to get the best experience here at Trinity due to it's great faculty teaching an amazing program in International Affairs.