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Freshman fifteen Q's: 04/13/10

Cashen

College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, at a new face on campus and her perspective of her new frontier.

Meet Patricia Cashen

1. What are your favorite words to live by?
Robert Frost said, “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”

2. What’s your favorite place on campus?
The fountain behind (Natural Science Building).

3. Do you have any advice for incoming freshmen?
Leave your door open because fun stuff like this happens.

4. What’s your biggest pet peeve?
Probably the wireless Internet on campus.

5. What is your dream job?
I’m thinking about being an anthropology professor.

6. What’s your favorite restaurant near campus?
Noodles and Co.

7. What’s one thing you could not live without near campus?
Probably the Curious Book Shop.

8. What’s your weirdest dorm experience so far?
Somebody was cleaning their fish tank and managed to put their fish in the drain, and we could hear them talking about it the whole time from outside the door, and then we heard the switch flip, and the fish was gone.

9. Do you believe in alien life forms?
I believe it’s possible.

10. If you could try one thing once that is normally fatal and have no repercussions, what would you do?
Honestly, probably some sort of drug dose, just to see.

11. What’s your favorite historical event?
Probably the Zho Dynasty, just because they spelled it z-h and its pronounced “joe.”

12. What’s the worst invention?
Nuclear bombs or anything of that sort.

13. What’s your favorite fictional character?
Holden Caulfield from “Catcher in the Rye.”

14. Would you rather go through a year of freezing temperatures or go to class in your underwear one day?
I think I could stand the cold.

15. Who’s one person you never want to meet?
George Washington because I wouldn’t want to ruin the mystique.

— Compiled by Casey Nesterowich, The State News

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