Eli Blas, a freshman, is on the staff of The Mirror, the award-winning student newspaper and website at Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles. For fun, he likes to hang out with his friends and listen to music. To relax, he either sleeps or cleans. He’s obsessed with sleeping because it feels like floating in space. Blas is interested in watching “The Conjuring” movies and loves baseball for the excitement and intensity each player brings to the game. His favorite team is the Dodgers, and his favorite player is Shohei Ohtani. His favorite video game is “Until Dawn” because of its exciting story focused on choices and strategy, though he doesn’t play it often. Blas listens to mostly everything except country music, with “20200229 2” by Mac DeMarco as his favorite song. His plans for college include NYU, UCLA, Cal State Northridge or UC Berkeley, where he’s interested in majoring in criminology or studying law. He supports animal welfare causes because animals can’t speak for themselves. Places he wants to visit include New York, Tokyo and Seoul, South Korea.