Senior Interview From School

This happened a bit ago, but I've been cleaning out my computer so I thought I'd post it here. RA's in my hall were required to conduct an interview with a senior on their floor to post in the hall paper. Initially, I said I would only do the interview if no one else was available. There was only one other senior on my floor and he refused to do it, so this is what happened. No clue if it'll ever be in the hall publication.

1. How did you choose UNH?

I needed to go to school to stay on my health insurance. UNH was the best school that I could afford.

2. What is your major? How did you choose it? Have you changed majors?

I was originally Undeclared, then Accounting, then Information Systems, and now I am Studio Art.

3. What courses have you learned the most from so far?

I haven’t learned a lot from academic course work. But I have learned from being in the presence of certain teachers. Specifically, the ones who are total badasses.

4. What are activities/opportunities you have participated in at UNH?

I have tried going to the majority of clubs on campus. Juggling club taught me to juggle. Then I made a Mecha and went to Anime Boston with the Anime club.

5. What are some things you want to accomplish/explore at UNH before you graduate? How do they connect with your academic/career interests?

If I can get a job as a janitor now, it could help me get a job as a janitor later.

6. Who or what at UNH has made a difference in your life?

Long conversations with more or less strangers.

7. Do you have a favorite faculty member, what makes them rate in your mind?

I had one teacher who I swear was an android.

8. Who has been influential to you outside of UNH?

Attempting to make small talk with animals tends to put things in perspective for me.

9. If you had one piece of advice for incoming students, what would it be?

It doesn’t really matter how hard you try.

10. What is a phrase or quote that sums up how you live your life?

"Dumbledore starts in: “Don’t you want some soup or cocoa, Harry? Come away from the light of heaven’s easy life. We need such a valiant, beautiful warrior as yourself here to live and to hack the serpents of evil in two, hell, into two, into threes and fours! Your life will be the very envy of heaven and its slobbery inhabitants. No, Harry. You were meant to stride with us, the living! To course with us and our blood. You are meant to end when your share of that blood turns brown on the rocks of glory! You and I shall drink tonight, Harry. We shall drink to life’s confines, to life’s pearly end, which is the nothingness of death, NOT the perpetual pansyness of heaven!”

11. Do you have any idea what you may be doing in 10 years?

I’m going for Buddhahood.

12. What is the single best decision you made since you came to UNH?

I won’t be sure until after I graduate.