Name: Eric White
Class year: 2016
Program: International Development and Globalization
Relationship Status: Single and (very) ready to mingle!
Her Campus: How are you involved on campus?
Eric White: My last year of university I haven’t been involved because I have been overwhelmed by school. But in previous years I played intramural sports from volleyball, to dodgeball and soccer. As well, I volunteered for Students Offering Support (SOS) on a school trip to Guatemala. The next year I volunteered with them planning another trip. Throughout my years here I participated in various organized activities events for example International Development Week.
HC: How would you describe yourself in three words?
EW: Easygoing, emotionally intelligent and witty
HC: What do you look for in your significant other?
EW: Someone who is their own person, who has their own vibe going. Somebody who is politicized and long legs perhaps?
HC: What is your biggest turn off?
EW: Someone who sweats the small stuff, or someone who is glued to their phone.
HC: Describe your best date.
EW: I took a lady canoeing at Dow’s Lake in Ottawa, and then I rickshawed her to Bluesfest and we watched the band Deep Purple perform Smoke on the Water from the rickshaw.
HC: What are your hobbies?
EW: Rickshaw running, travelling, I dream about sports all day, dungeons and dragons, reading political books. I guess I have interests all over the place.
HC: Which Hollywood star would be your ideal partner? (i.e Celebrity Crush)
EW: Jennifer Lawrence, she’s her own person, but I don’t know if she likes canoeing.
HC: What would your dream date be like?
EW: I don’t think there is such a thing as a dream date, each date is dependant on the chemistry you have with that person, whatever is going to put a smile on our faces in that moment.
HC: What is your dream job?
EW: Working for a grassroots International Development organization overseas for 6 months, and then coming back to Canada and doing stone work or landscaping for the rest of the year. Or some mixture of that in some form.
HC: What country would you like to visit?
EW: I have to finish Latin America first, Bolivia is up there!
HC: So where in Latin America have you been?
EW: Peru, Guatemala, Nicaragua , Brazil – I love it there.
HC: Who is your role model?
EW: There are people who I respect for what they do, like a cool barista, I can respect that. I mean, I like people who like what they do and who make it their own. They are my role models.
HC: What do you plan to do after you graduate?
EW: Continuing working as a professional landscaper, and work with Movimention dos Trabalhadores Ruaris Sem Terra ( MST), Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement, starting February (hopefully!).
HC: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
EW: No, no! That is too far, hopefully I will have found a life, maybe have a kid? The only thing I can say for sure is that I will be tanned.
HC: What is the most spontaneous thing you have ever done?
EW: The most empowering and spontaneous thing, within two months, in the middle of university. I decided to move from Montreal to Ottawa, it happened so fast, it was unexpected and I up and moved.
HC: What is your fondest memory at university?
EW: The atmosphere during the summer here, around May and April, the people I met, and the things I learned.
HC: Did you learn anything specific?
EW: The world is not flat and there are so many cool people that live in it and that it is all beautiful .
HC: Eric, tell me a funny story.
EW: This one time I got knocked out by a homeless man in the market while rickshaw running. Is that funny?