Porch Profile: The Women of 216 College Park
By: Kayla Mueller – Staff Writer
Flyer News: How did you guys meet?
All: CORE freshman year.
Katie Bruns: We were all neighbors and lived down the hall from each other.
Joy and Sam Hamilton: Yeah, we’re twins.
FN: Describe 216 College Park in one word.
Alexa Hill: Dangerous.
SH: Fun.
KB: Fantabulous.
Yaimarie Queeman: It’s quirky, but I am going to say “home.”
JH: Diverse.
Vicki Kolodziej: Crazy – in all the best ways possible.
KB: OK, that’s more than one word.
AH: Sign language. We speak French, Spanish, German… and English, in case you were wondering.
JH: I speak Teletubbie.
FN: Tell me about 216 College Park.
YQ: We are talkative and loud. There’s impromptu singing, musical numbers…I am the only one who can’t sing.
KB: We made our own curtains, and the house is called the “Diamond in the Rough.”
YQ: Her knitting chest is our treasure.
VK: Crockpots…we are like old people.
KB: We go on “cleaning terrors” – when we all clean everything.
FN: What would be the theme song of your house?
[All start singing “The Lonely Goatherd” from “The Sound of Music”]
KB: Can that still be our theme song? Because none of us are lonely or goatherds.
SH: Definitely the last song from “The Breakfast Club.”
JH: We’re Disney kids.
FN: What are you guys going to be for Halloween?
SH, YQ and KB: “Hocus Pocus” theme.
JH: I might be the little girl.
AH: I’m going to be a Power Ranger.
YQ: My boyfriend might be whatever is left over.
FN: If you guys were in a movie together, what would it be?
SH: “Pitch Perfect.”
All: “Bridesmaids.”
FN: If you were any Disney character who would you be?
YQ: Tinker Bell.
VK: Sleeping Beauty.
KB: Cinderella.
JH: Belle.
AH: Me too!
SH: Milo from “Atlantis”…what are the other cool nerds that invent stuff? Maybe Robin Williams from “Flubber.”
All: No…that’s not flattering.
SH: OK, Ursula from “The Little Mermaid.” Can I change mine…I want to be Sheldon Cooper [“The Big Bang Theory].
FN:What is your favorite place in the house?
All: Balcony.
KB: I lied. The far right corner of the couch.
VK: My bed.
FN: What is the coolest event that you have at your house?
YQ: We are such cool kids, though.
VK: We had a potluck dinner. We invited people but nobody really came… Just the boyfriends. And two friends.
JH: Sam and I had our 21st birthday weekend in the beginning of the year.
YQ: Once, we tried to do man night and ended up singing, painting and knitting while watching “Diehard.”
AH: I threw a spa party.
FN: What is the biggest running joke?
All: Oh, no, we have so many.
YQ: I don’t think that any one joke is appropriate enough to be an answer.
KB: Hrothgar my terydactyl.
FN: If 216 were a zoo, what animals would you guys be?
VK: I would be a gazelle.
AH: Bear.
KB: A fox…I liked it before the song.
YQ: I would be a monkey.
SH: Wolf.
JH: Guys I’m trying to pick between a lion and a polar bear. I really don’t like animals.
VK: Or you could be a bird…
FN: What are your plans after graduation?
VK: Moving to Orlando, Fla. in January to work for Disney.
AH: I am going to be a teacher.
SH: I want to be Indiana Jane and work in a museum. I am hoping to get an internship with the field museum.
KB: I am going to get my master’s degree in library science. End goal: Librarian of Congress.
JH: Vicki finds the bright side of everything …I want a career in publishing in Chicago or New York, and my ultimate end goal is to win a bunch of Oscars.
YQ: Move to the United States officially, in the Midwest, and eventually move to Texas to be closer to my sisters and find a job in marketing or sales.
FN: Any advice for your fellow Flyers?
KB: Don’t read for class.
AH: Eat whatever you want.
VK: We didn’t stop looking for houses. [Starts singing “Don’t Stop, Don’t Give Up]
SH: Don’t let bad days dictate the ways you live your life. A good day will always come.
JH: No matter what kind of day you have had, your friends are always going to be there when you get home.
YQ: Friends are the family that you choose for yourself…I stole that from somewhere but I don’t care.