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Eric Childs

Year: Sophomore
Major: BME-Mech
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Favorite Equation: Anything with logarithms
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: Disturbed
Favorite Actor/Actress: Tom Hanks
Favorite Pick-up Line: How much does a polar bear weigh? Enough to break the ice.
Random Talent: I write poetry in my spare time.
What animal best represents you and why? Probably a monkey. I like to climb stuff and jump/ swing off things. Jungle gyms are definitely a favorite.
Desired Super Power: Teleportation. It'd make managing LA traffic a much easier task.
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: In the best of all possible worlds, I'd have a tent, a boat, and a radio.
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make: A 4'2" forty yard dash time, A's all across my transcripts, and a guaranteed spot in my choice of med school.
Describe your ideal date: Roller coasters and Coldstone make for an epic combination.

Jenna Crisp

Year: Freshman
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Zodiac: Pisces
Favorite Equation: A of circle = pi*r^2
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: Kenny Chesney
Favorite Actor/Actress: Jennifer Aniston
Favorite Pick-up Line: Let's make like fabric softener and snuggle!
Random Talent: I can make a four leaf clover with my tongue and do a headstand forever... and do both at the same time??
What animal best represents you and why? My friends say I'm like a lion because of my curly mane of blonde hair.
Desired Super Power: To be able to fly because then I could travel the world whenever I wanted to!
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: Suntan lotion, strawberries, and all seven harry potter books.
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:

  1. To become a pro surfer and star in the remake of Blue Crush
  2. To have the ability to control the weather
  3. To have endless wishes!
Describe your ideal date: First my manly date would come over and wake me up to the delicious smell of blueberry pancakes, then we would put on our hiking boots and explore the wilderness. Luckily, he remembered to pack our swimsuits and turkey sandwiches so we could take a swim and have lunch at a lake that we stumble upon on our hike. Next we hop in a boat and take turns driving/wakeboarding home, and make it back just in time to change clothes and get to our courtside seats at a Portland Blazers basketball game. The day comes to a close after a fantastic Blazers victory with stargazing and cuddling on a blanket underneath a clear sky.

Laura Falkner

Year: Freshman
Major: Biomedical Engineering/Global Communications
Zodiac: Aquarius
Favorite Equation: PV=nRT
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: The Fray and any country music
Favorite Actor/Actress: Steve Carell
Favorite Pick-up Line: Did the sun just come out? Or did you just smile at me?
Random Talent: I have a sixth sense in finding coffee shops. My love of coffee always finds its way to the nearest coffee shop, even if I have never been there before.
What animal best represents you and why? A puppy. I'm a loyal friend and I can never stay mad at anyone, just like a puppy will always come back wagging its tail.
Desired Super Power: I would be able to fly extremely fast so I could travel the world in just a blink of the eye.
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: music, a fully stocked kitchen, and a friend
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make: to find true love, to make a difference in the world, and to have a healthy and happy family of my own
Describe your ideal date: A guy surprises me with a picnic set out on the beach during summertime with roses. Then we sit together under a blanket and watch the sunset.

Caroline Fletcher

Year: Sophomore
Major: Civil Engineering
Zodiac: Taurus
Favorite Equation: quadratic
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: fergie ferg
Favorite Actor/Actress: feorge clooney
Favorite Pick-up Line: Do you have any raisins? No? How about a date?
Random Talent: eat a whole hot dog in one bite.
What animal best represents you and why? a sea cucumber because i go with the flow
Desired Super Power: wishes she could apparate for obvious reasons
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: daniel rodriguez, coffee, machete
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:

  1. infinite wishes
  2. world peace
  3. eat as much as i want without ever getting full
Describe your ideal date: fly to greece and bask in the grecian sun while swimming in the Mediterranean sea.

Alyssa Gottlieb

Year: Sophomore
Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Favorite Equation: ln(e) = 1
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: Anything that rocks.
Favorite Actor/Actress: Leo DiCaprio
Favorite Pick-up Line: You and I add up better than a Riemann sum.
Random Talent: I'm really good at cooking enchiladas and accomplishing other Martha Stewart-esque tasks.
What animal best represents you and why? I'd say I'm most like the eye of the tiger because I, too, inspire people to achieve great things and get buff and eat raw eggs, like what Rocky did.
Desired Super Power: I would want to be able to turn into Casper at any time. Not only could I be semi-invisible and have Hilary Duff as a best friend, but I could also get through the Cardinal Gardens gate even when the lock is jammed (always).
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: Pandora radio, apples, and The Fountainhead
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make: First I would wish to age like Nicole Kidman then I would probably wish for lots of money and finally, a jetski.
Describe your ideal date: Fun(ny), genuine, and really good at Calc II.

Anant Gupta

Year: Junior
Major: Computer Science / Business Adminstration
Zodiac: Virgo
Favorite Equation: Trust me, there are far more interesting things to know about me than my favorite equation.
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: Lil Wayne & Benny Benassi
Favorite Actor/Actress: Matt Damon
Favorite Pick-up Line: Call me.... and she does.
Random Talent: Ability to make a damn good sandwich
What animal best represents you and why? Pooh Bear because the simplest of things amuse me, and i like to cuddle
Desired Super Power: Ability to become into a God, so I could do anything and everything I've wanted.
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island:

  1. A genie
  2. Pajamas
  3. My roommates and friends
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:
  1. See super power
  2. Ability to time travel
  3. The genie's freedom...isn't that what they all want?
Describe your ideal date: Dinner and a Movie...yes seriously.

Arianna Kovachevich

Year: Sophomore
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Zodiac: Scorpio
Favorite Equation: Euler's equation
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: Third Eye Blind
Favorite Actor/Actress: James Dean
Favorite Pick-up Line: I want to be a derivative so I can lie tangent to your curves.
Random Talent: I can put matches out with my tongue among other things.
What animal best represents you and why? Dolphin. I love to swim and I'm intelligent.
Desired Super Power: I would want to be able to be invisible so I could go to disneyland and ride the rides whenever I wanted.
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island:

  1. ipod (and charger)
  2. books
  3. airplane (in case I want to leave)
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:
  1. Infinite Wishes.
  2. Britney Spears' Abs
  3. The answers to all my finals
Describe your ideal date: Third Eye Blind on a Grecian island followed by dinner with Stephan Jenkins.

Stacy Jones

Year: Freshman
Major: Chemical Engineering
Zodiac: Aquarius
Favorite Equation: d=PMM/RT
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: Blink 182/hip hop/rap
Favorite Actor/Actress: Bruce Willis
Favorite Pick-up Line: "Hi, my name's Stacy..."
Random Talent: I manage to luck out when I don't know what's going on.
What animal best represents you and why? A Peacock. They're very colorful once they open up and they're all unique. I'm super playful which makes me a colorful person and peacocks seem to be off in their own world at times.
Desired Super Power: Mind reading whenever I am curious. I don't want to hear all the time so "on-off" switch would be preferable.
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: Fruit smoothies, sunblock, another person
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:

  1. I wish I could travel the world and go everywhere.
  2. I wish I could read minds.
  3. I wish I could live a joyful and fulling life.
Describe your ideal date: The guy would be spontaneous and keep me guessing throughout the date as to what's to come next. He would give me all the attention when I'm with him but will still acknowledge another girl's beauty. As a really fun date, we would go to the carnival and ride all of the rides, eat frozen-chocolate-covered cheesecake as a must, and stay until closing unless it gets way too cold.

Scott Macklin

Year: Junior
Major: ASTE
Zodiac: Aries
Favorite Equation: You+Me=Eternity
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: Barbara Streisand
Favorite Actor/Actress: Actor: Morgan Freeman; Actress: Zac Efron
Favorite Pick-up Line: Hi, I'm Scott Macklin.
Random Talent: I can fall with style.
What animal best represents you and why? I'd be 'Animal' from the Muppets, cause he's the most awesome animal you've ever seen.
Desired Super Power: Ability to make any Dennis Quaid movie win an Oscar, so I can win a lot of bets.
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: Lay-z Boy recliner, Peanut Butter Crunch, All seasons of Lost on DVD for the irony
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:

  1. Always remember my address
  2. To be the Producer of MTV's Parental Control
  3. Limitless supply of Cholula Hot Sauce
Describe your ideal date: Taking a romantic walk on the beach, we'll find some dolphins and ride them into the sunset, all the while Kenny G is playing smooth sax a nearby dolphin.

Lorenzo Mangubat

Year: Junior
Major: Chemical Engineering (Nanotech)
Zodiac: Capricorn
Favorite Equation: love=chocolate fondue + strawberries
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: electronic/trance... and Jason Mraz
Favorite Actor/Actress: Prof. Shing. She can enact a molecule like no other.
Favorite Pick-up Line:

for most girls: [bump into her and pretend like its her fault] "Girl did you just... you know I'm not that easy. I require dinner and a movie first."

for an engineer: "You get my delta G going!"

Random Talent: I once randomly decided to make a rap about chemical engineers: http://tinyurl.com/usccherap
What animal best represents you and why? Peacock. Because I'm trying to be all colorful here trying to grab your attention.
Desired Super Power: The ability to fly, so I can fly my date to the ball.
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island:
  1. A pint of Haagen-Dazs ice cream.
  2. A complete collection of my fave TV series Battlestar Galactica.
  3. Sunscreen.
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:
  1. I wish someone would spend more than a dollar on me during date auction.
  2. I wish to be a prince so I can marry Jasmine.
  3. World Peace
Describe your ideal date: Someone who likes peacocks. (refer to the animal question)

Brandon Marin

Year: Junior
Major: Chemical Engineering
Zodiac: Pisces
Favorite Equation: Probably Faradays law. It was the most interesting.
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: Rock/Pixies&Sonic Youth&Mars Volta&Moving Units&The Rapture&Bloc Party/Cedric Bixter-Zavala and Matt Bellamy
Favorite Actor/Actress: Sean Penn/Charlize Theron
Favorite Pick-up Line: Don't have one. It usually takes more than one sentence to impress someone worth impressing anyway.
Random Talent: I know how to play guitar and skateboard well. Most friends know that though.
What animal best represents you and why? N/A
Desired Super Power: I would probably want to have the same superpowers as Dr Manhattan from Watchmen, but I just wouldn't want to be nude all the time .. or blue.
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: Food, fresh water, and shelter.
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:

  1. Make my mother rich so she could retire and travel finally
  2. a cure for cancer
  3. give the last one away to a family that really needed it
Describe your ideal date: Smart and funny. Thats all.

Miho Onuki

Year: Junior
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Zodiac: Libra
Favorite Equation: Time dilation!
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: Norah Jones, Maroon 5
Favorite Actor/Actress: You<3
Favorite Pick-up Line: "Do you wanna study with me tonight? I can teach you.."
Random Talent: Speak Japanese, Modeling, Some machining and wet lay-ups (rockets)
What animal best represents you and why? Probably a cat? I do whatever I feel like. I'm the nice one though:)
Desired Super Power: Time Manipulation.. What else? All engineers need more time, right? Never enough, money can't buy!
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: Knife, Music and a partner... (I would get too lonely by myself!)
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:

  1. Give me unlimited resources, time and knowledge to build rockets...like Iron Man!
  2. Take me to places I've never been to! (Love trips!)
  3. Give me your power!
Describe your ideal date: Any date with a cute smarty will be great.. In class to in space, take me anywhere, and we'll make it great;)

Ilene Rafii

Year: Junior
Major: Electrical Engineering, English minor
Zodiac: Taurus
Favorite Equation: Euler's formula
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: Lady Gaga
Favorite Actor/Actress: Paris Hilton
Favorite Pick-up Line: Can you count to four in binary?
Random Talent: I can incorporate plain yogurt into any meal. Spaghetti, sandwiches, Chinese food, soup, bread--yogurt goes with it all!
What animal best represents you and why? A cat! Because I'm Persian!
Desired Super Power: I wish I could have the ability to communicate in any language.
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island:

  1. Floss
  2. Yogurt (plain only)
  3. Fuzzball (my cat)
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:
  1. Invent something that helps people
  2. Plant a deciduous forest outside my house
  3. Ability to have lucid dreams
Describe your ideal date: Anything not extremely awkward! Hiking or being in nature would be fun.

Daniel Rodriguez

Year: Sophomore
Major: Civil (Environmental) Engineering
Zodiac: Aries
Favorite Equation: girls = time + money
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: sasha fierce aka beyonce
Favorite Actor/Actress: owen wilson, andy samberg
Favorite Pick-up Line: Does this rag smell like chloroform?
Random Talent: i'm good with my hands
What animal best represents you and why? puma cause it's like a cougar but fiercer
Desired Super Power: x-ray vision for obvious reasons.
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: pasta, Camus novels, my right hand
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:

  1. end of world hunger
  2. be less buff
  3. lots of butterfingers
Describe your ideal date: going out to eat with your mom

Bart Stevens

Year: Senior
Major: Chem E
Zodiac: Cancer
Favorite Equation: u+me=us (i know my calculus)
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: The Pixies
Favorite Actor/Actress: Daniel Craig
Favorite Pick-up Line:

Me: Heeeeyyy
Girl: I have a boyfriend
Me: I have a goldfish
Girl: What?
Me: Oh sorry, I thought were talking about things that didn't matter
Random Talent: I can touch my tongue to my nose.
What animal best represents you and why? A dog. I can sit, stay, and rollover, and I get into trouble if you leave me alone with nothing to do. I'm house trained and I don't bite....hard.....
Desired Super Power: I'd have a constant movie soundtrack playing behind me. It'd warn me of approaching dangers, let others know how I'm feeling, and provide auditory filler for montages.
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: For a deserted island, you would need:
  1. A small body of land
  3. Water surrounding said land
  4. No people on the land
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make: I'd wish for a cheeseburger, fries, and a chocolate shake.
Describe your ideal date: I'm a big fan of the classic dinner and a movie. Everything will go just fine as long as we're not seeing a movie with both Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.

Josh Villbrandt

Year: Junior
Major: Aerospace Engineering, minor in Computer Science
Zodiac: Aquarius
Favorite Equation: F=d/dt(mv)
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: The War
Favorite Actor/Actress: Tom Hanks
Favorite Pick-up Line: So I have a couple of boxes of Legos at my house - would you like to come over and build our future home with me? (Doesn't usually work.)
Random Talent: Finger drumming! I can compete with the best when it comes to drumming with my first two fingers on each hand.
What animal best represents you and why? A Golden Retriever, because I'm loyal and enjoy just being around others.
Desired Super Power: I would have the ability of power absorption, so that I could try others' powers and pick my favorite!
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island: A guide to surviving in the wild, a small and never ending waterfall (for powering things... ^_^ ), and a most importantly, a friend.
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make: I'd ask the genie to pay for my college tuition, give my parents some money so they could live in California again, and then free himself!
Describe your ideal date: Ambiguous question...

As in a person: Genuine, intelligent, and a little sassy

As in an event: Doing something new together - an adventure, and a chance to really get to know what that person is made of

Robert Ward

Year: Junior
Major: CompSci/BusAdmin
Zodiac: Libra
Favorite Equation: 2 + 2 = fish
Favorite Music/Band/Singer: Backstreet Boys
Favorite Actor/Actress: Taylor Lautner's Abs
Favorite Pick-up Line:

Guy: Fat penguin
Girl: What!?
Guy: I just wanted to say something that would break the ice.
Random Talent: I can do this cool spinny thing with my skateboard. I guess you kinda have to see it...
What animal best represents you and why? I'm like a unicorn because I only exist in your fantasies :P
Desired Super Power: I'd be Never-Needs-To-Sleep-Man, so I wouldn't feel like a zombie after pulling an all-nighter o_o
3 Necessities If Stuck on a Deserted Island:
  1. Facebook
  2. A pet monkey I can battle
  3. An endless supply of Double Stuf Oreos
If you met a genie, list three wishes you would make:
  1. I wish I was a little bit taller
  2. I wish I was a baller
  3. I wish I went to Hogwarts
Describe your ideal date: Candlelit dinner. Romantic walks and long talks.

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