It’s not often that you meet someone who in just a few minutes can cause you to question everything you thought you knew and teach you to see the world in a new light. Ladies, meet Patrick Boner: an incredible guy who loves to read, discuss great ideas, amble about in nature, and is someone I can always count on for an intriguing conversation. He certainly doesn’t disappoint in the interview below. Besides, what’s better than a six foot boner?
Age: 19
Major: Sociology and possibly double major in sustainability or environmental studies
Relationship status: currently single
What’s the last book you read? Counter Point by Aldous Huxley and Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
If you had to choose between being deaf or blind for the rest of your life, which would you choose and why? I’d choose being deaf because there is so much more to see in this world than hear, I suppose.
What’s your favorite thing about the U? All the different people I get to see and interact with who have all lived such different lives than I have. I love talking with them and learning from them, students and teachers.
What are your plans for spring break? Umm possibly go to Moab or start trying to build a 3d printer with a friend. But no plans still haha, don’t like to bog myself down in the future too much.
What’s the best comment/joke you’ve heard by someone who just learned your last name? Hmm-best joke would be people who think I’m kidding. They just laugh and ask, “OK now really, what’s your name?” And I just look at them and laugh.
What do you look for in a girl? The main thing I look for is to be able to have a substantive conversation with her.
If you could spend an hour with any famous person, living or dead, who would it be? That’s hard. I’d say either Jimi Hendrix or the Buddha, but probably Jimi ‘cause we know he actually existed.
Where do you see yourself in ten years? I have no idea where I’ll be in ten years haha, I don’t even know where I’ll be in two weeks. I try not to think in the future too much, I prefer living in the moment. The future doesn’t really exist, only the here and now.
What could you see yourself being in the Guinness Book of World Records for?
I’d probably be in the record books for most people talked to. I talk to everyone about anything, all the time.
Favorite pastimes: Reading, writing, conversing, long boarding, slacklining, hiking, and pretty much anything that has to do with nature.