This week’s Campus Cutie is Delta Upsilon’s Little 5 rider, Patrick Nielsen. He arrived to our interview dressed for the beautiful weekend weather, in a casual tank and shorts. Ladies, if you’re looking for an easy-going and adventurous guy, you found him. Catch his eye this week at the races!
HC: Patrick, tell us a little about yourself.
PN: I’m from western Kentucky. I’m a junior sociology major. I’m not really involved in too much. I’m on the exec[utive board] for IMs and for my house. That’s it.
HC: What is your position on exec?
PN: Treasurer
HC: Do you know what you want to do with your sociology major?
PN: No idea, I wish I knew.
HC: Why sociology?
PN: I took Contemporary Society and I loved it and my professor. I thought it was cool how I could relate it to a lot of things from back home.
HC: I know you’re riding in Little 5 for Delta Upsilon’s team. How have you been training?
PN: I usually go to Filmore and come back, or go to the next town over. We rode a lot over Spring Break and before, so hopefully I’m prepared.
HC: When did you begin training?
PN: January
HC: And have you ridden before this?
PN: No, I have not.
HC: Why did you decide to ride in Little 5 this year?
PN: I guess because I’m pretty competitive and I need something to be competitive about.
HC: What are you doing this summer?
PN: I’m trying to get an internship in Greencastle working at the health clinic, but if not then I’ll go to Maine to be a basketball counselor.
HC: Do you play basketball?
PN: No at DePauw, but outside of DePauw — yeah.
HC: Okay, Campus Cutie, what is the most attractive feature on a girl?
PN: I’d definitely have to say the eyes. I guess you can tell a lot about somebody through her eyes in my opinion.
HC: What the biggest turn-off?
PN: If they’re really full of themselves.
HC: When it comes to dating at DePauw, can you give our HC readers some advice?
PN: [hesitantly] Just be yourself would be my best piece of advice because, I don’t know, there’s only so long you can try to be something you’re not.
HC: Who’s your celebrity crush?
PN: Kate Beckinsale
HC: What was the first date you had ever been on?
PN: Like middle school date? I remember I got slapped on my first date.
HC: Rough. I won’t ask you what happened. But, if you could take a girl out on the perfect date — no price tag or anything — what would you do?
PN: Well I like going camping, so I’d say we’d go camping somewhere — hike, roast marshmallows, cook something over the fire —
HC: — Look at the stars?
PN: I did take two semesters of astronomy.
HC: What’s something that most people don’t know about you?
Bystander: He likes to cook!
PN: Yes…
HC: What was the last thing you cooked?
PN: The other day I made asparagus wrapped with bacon.
HC: If you were going to make a special someone dinner, what would you make them?
PN: Well, I would hope that she would eat meat, because I can’t really do vegetarian stuff. But, my mom makes this really good chicken that I could make. You have to soak it in soy sauce overnight. But, yeah, it’s really good.
HC: What sides would you make with it?
PN: I don’t know, maybe a salad with sesame dressing or that kind of thing.