| What is your most memorable childhood experience? | As a child raised in the military one of my most memorable childhood experiences involved the several months I spent in Saudi Arabia. Witnessing the class divide and the zealotry there gave me a whole new perspective on my life, my standard of living, and culture in general. |
| What immediate family member do you closely identify with and why? | My father has always been an inspirational figure in my life. After college he pursued a variety of interests before becoming a fighter pilot in the Air Force. His distinguished career is admirable, but his willingness to do the things he enjoyed to the best of his ability is what I identify with most. I found his discipline and integrity especially valuable after I left home and had to live on my own. Ultimately my father became a role model for my own life. |
| What character traits do you admire in an individual? | Ideals are what I admire most in myself. In others, I admire courage, integrity, self-control, ambition, and courtesy. The combination of those things creates an individual who can achieve goals without compromising his or her morals or abusing those around him or her. |
| What is the funniest thing ever to happen to you? | During a swimming evaluation in my freshman year, I dove into the pool while the class watched me lose my swim suit and swim a lap naked. |
| If time and money were not an issue, where would you travel and why? | If I was not constrained by time or money I would probably spend several years visiting distant friends at other colleges, collecting real estate in exotic locations, and finally settling on an island in the Caribbean for the summers and a villa in the French Alps for the winters. |
| When and if you ever have children, what would you like to pass on to them? | I want my children to be intelligent enough to achieve their highest ambitions. I also want them to have my outgoing and social nature so they can have a variety of fulfilling and close relationships, which I believe is the key to happiness. |
