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Katie Ashbaugh

4th year majoring in City and Regional Planning

If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get?

• Chocolate or anything made of potatoes, maybe lasagna. I'm indecisive.

What is your favorite PSP memory?

• Getting my little Erin Ponting last semester.

Who is your hero?

• My hero is my grandmother, Natheta Mercer.

If I could be anybody besides myself, I would be...

• Leslie Knope and/or Beyonce. Doesn't matter.

Marisa Lally 

4th year majoring in International Relations and Spanish

If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get?

• I would ask for soup. Soup is my favorite food and also allows for a lot of creativity, so I wouldn't get tired of it. Ramen, split pea, pho, alphabet, chicken noodle, potato, wedding, miso, matzo ball, tortilla, tomato, etc.

What is your favorite PSP memory?

• I have lots of great memories, but one of my favorites is when I was Gia's canoe partner during a retreat. Not only were we very terrible at canoeing, but we also got stuck in a tree that rained spiders. Gia was completely panicked and I will never forget it. 

Who is your hero?

• My hero is my mom. She's smart, independent, reasonable, bilingual, a social butterfly and great at thrift shopping. She also has the best knife skills and is super good at personal finance.

If I could be anybody besides myself, I would be...

• My cat.

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Amber DuPree

4th Year (It's Goblet of Fire year, so I'm very busy trying to win the Triwizard Cup (read: graduate) majoring in Film Studies and Strategic Communication

If you could make any fictional character come to life, which would it be?

• As per my Harry Potter reference before, it would probably have to be Sirius Black. I mean that would also require him to be brought back to life (this is not a spoiler alert, you all have had several years to read OR watch Harry Potter) but we have the same Myers-Briggs type (ENTP) and like many of the same things (motorcycles, dogs, creating chaos) so I can imagine all of the great debauchery we could get ourselves into. 

What “most likely to” superlative would you be most honored to receive and why?

• "Most likely to unknowingly have a screw lodged in their ear for an indiscriminate amount of time"  It's a thing that has happened to me recently and it perfectly describes me as a being. It is also a story that is told waaaaaay better in person so holla at your Bro. 

   

What about yourself do you find the most pride in and why?

• My unrelentless drive to be myself. Sure that may mean I state things as if they are fact that are actually possibly opinion (ie "Saltwater turns your hair blonde"). Or even purchasing and consuming 36 mangos within two weeks. But I absolutely take pride that I won't compromise my authentic self for anyone or anything. (but let's see how I handle Hollywood)

What was the best birthday you ever had and why?

• Probably my 21st and it's not what you think. Ok maybe it is exactly what you think if you know me. My birthday was over labor day weekend and so I took a trip to Canada with my sister and my Mom where we drove from Columbus to Toronto and then to Montreal. The drive was beautiful with all of the birch trees. I went to the Hockey Hall of Fame sporting my new Canucks jersey and eat some delicious French-Canadian cuisine. It was so rad. Yeah, I said it. RAD. 

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Susi Martinez

Second-year majoring in International Studies and minoring in Global Public Health and Spanish

What is your biggest fear?

• My biggest fear has always been spiders because they're creepy and can crawl all over you. But recently I found out another fear of mine is falling through ice into freezing water (which I discovered after walking across a frozen Mirror Lake after the National Championship game win!) It's okay though because I didn't fall through!

What's the best meal you've ever had?

• It's hard to pick one meal, but I would say the best food I've had was called a rolex in Uganda last summer. It's basically an omelette rolled up in chapati (a really good fried bread) and you can put other vegetables in it, like tomatoes and avocado. 

What's the best compliment you've ever received?

• One really nice complement I received was from members on my Buck-I-SERV trip this year over spring break. I was one of the trip leaders, and a few members told me that they could tell how passionate I was toward helping others advocate against injustices - which means a lot to me because I try to bring awareness to social issues as much as I can!

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Megan Novotny

Second year majoring in Nursing

What is the craziest thing that you have ever done in your life?

• My friends and I bought a rotisserie chicken at giant eagle and sat outside on the curb and ate it with our hands (Don't ask questions, we're weird)

If you could be reincarnated as a fruit, what would it be and why?

• A mango because its my favorite fruit and its super sweet and juicy and delicious.

If you could have been a child prodigy what would you have wanted to be skilled at and why?

• Something art related like painting or sculpting because I am not artistic at all and wish I was. Plus it would be super relaxing to just paint and sculpt all day instead of learning.

What do you hope to achieve by 50?

• By age 50 I hope to have traveled to Africa once or more as a nurse, feel like I traveled a lot a saw the world, and I hope to not be living alone with a bunch of dogs as my family instead of people (I'd be a crazy dog lady not cat lady, cats are scary).

Pallavi Oruganti

Junior majoring in Anthropological Sciences

What is the craziest thing that you have ever done in your life?

• My crazy threshold is probably not as high as other people, but probably the craziest thing I've done is go on an archaeological dig in Ireland. Completely random and nothing to do with my major but so worth it!

If you could be reincarnated as a fruit, what would it be and why?

• If was reincarnated as a fruit, I would be a pineapple. I think pineapples describe my personality pretty well. Kinda prickly one the outside but sweet (and sometimes sour) on the inside. Added bonus, getting to live in a tropical place!

If you could have been a child prodigy what would you have wanted to be skilled at and why?

• I would love to have been a child singing prodigy. Because I can sing now but it would be awesome to be actually good enough to be famous for it. That or chemistry. Because I've had a tumultuous relationship with chemistry all through college haha

What do you hope to achieve by 50?

• By the time I'm 50, I hope to be a veterinarian working in the field of global public health. I'd love to be working for a governmental branch like the USDA and the CDC to help address issues of animal and human health worldwide. Maybe eradicate a disease or two, we'll see :)

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Ryan Klamet

Fourth-year in biology 

What is your worst fear?

• Sleeping through an exam and then failing the class and having to live in a van down by the river making a living as a motivational speaker. 

What's your favorite article of clothing?

• A nice, pressed oxford. Dress it up with some nice slacks and a tie? Sure. Dress it down with some jeans and maybe a nice pullover? Always. Throw it on with some sweats? No, you animal. 

If you were famous what would you be famous for?

• I'd like to be famous for being just slightly better at everything my friend, Alek, does. Oh you got your girlfriend a dozen roses for Valentine's Day? I got mine 13. Sell the rights as a sitcom. Call it, "Because I'm That Guy." 

What's your favorite movie?

• Top Gun. This movie bleeds Red, White and Blue. Goose's mustache alone can cure Communism. Mav's power move of revving his motorcycle engine and stating, "I'm sorry I can't hear you." Complete savage. If you wanna put 20 pounds on your bench and eat a dead man's boogers for breakfast and then ask for seconds, watch this movie and feel the freedom.