| What is your most memorable childhood experience? | I have fond memories of travelling to Germany to spend time with my extended relatives and visit the places that my family came from. |
| What immediate family member do you closely identify with and why? | I identify most with my sister. We have always been really close, and we even went to the same university! While we don't share a lot of the same interests, we have very complementary personalities and similar senses of humor. |
| What character traits do you admire in an individual? | I admire honesty, determination, and consistency. |
| What is the funniest thing ever to happen to you? | This is a tough one. If I had to pick, it would probably be the night a former roommate and I labelled everything in our apartment with sticky notes. We were both up late working on homework, and he showed me a comedy sketch where the comedians labelled everything in their house with sticky notes, just to see if they could. We happened to have a thousand count pack of sticky notes, and it was 3 AM, so we figured that since we had to be up at 6 anyways, we would go ahead and label as much as we could. We went through the entire pack in just those few hours, and the look on my third roommate's face when he woke up still makes me laugh to this day. Hearing about it, it probably doesn't sound that funny, but it was one of the purest moments of friendship and goofiness that I have ever experienced. |
| If time and money were not an issue, where would you travel and why? | I would travel all over Europe, both to experience places that my family came from in Germany and to experience all the different places of historical musical significance. |
| When and if you ever have children, what would you like to pass on to them? | I would want them to have a sense of accountability. This was something that I struggled with a bit growing up, and my parents (as great of parents as they were), didn't focus on that aspect of raising me as much as I probably needed. As I went through college, I made a point about holding myself accountable, both in terms of achieving a high standard of excellence, and in terms of taking responsibility for my mistakes and failings. If I ever have kids, I would want to teach them a strong sense of accountability and personal responsibility, to help them grow into honest, mature, and self-aware individuals. |
