She wasn't sure that her technique was working after the first pictures, but when her art teacher, Corie Neumayer, talked with her and showed her similar ideas carried out by artist Chuck Close, Jennifer felt inspired. The boost of confidence made a big difference. Another thing that helped was getting new ink for the old stamp pad. The fresh ink made it much easier to achieve the dark values without "stamping the ink pad a million times" and losing the texture of the fingerprints to a dull grey.

Jennifer's senior-year art class was not an official AP course, but rather an independent study. She states emphatically that it was all due to conversations with Corie Neumayer, her art teacher, that she decided to take the AP Studio Art Exam.

Jennifer is currently attending Dartmouth College. She has not declared a major yet but will probably pursue something in literature, languages or philosophy. Although art has never been her main interest, it has always been important to her, and she plans to continue with it in the future.