Name: Andrea Collazo Borralí
Birthday: July 24,1993 (21)
Major: environmental studies and political science (concentration in legal studies)
Year: senior
Hometown: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Relationship Status: single
Plans After College: law school back home
Favorite Cafe Meal: Chicken Parmesan
What do you do on campus: President of the Senior class, President of the Pre-Law honor society, President of Campus Sustainability Committee ( Environmental Club), President of Gilbert and Sullivan Club (Operetta Club), Member of SGA, Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society, UNICEF member, Student Ambassador Association, E-tern Supervisor, Assistant to the Admissions Counselor of International Students, as well as an internship in the League of Women Voters of New York State under the Chair of the Committee of Energy, Sustainability and Agriculture.
What are some of your favorite memories at Mville?: Library nights, Quad days, Quad Jam, the suite life, eating in the cafe with my friends.
What do you look for in a guy?: Intelligence, honesty, caring, observant, calm but up for adventure, fluent in another language, sweet and giving; all in all just a person that complements me.
What is your best feature?: “My brains.”
Surprising Fact about you: “I don’t like coffee or tea and I don’t drink. I am also an only child.”
Favorite Book: Tuesdays with Morrie.
If you could go back and tell your 16 year old self one thing what would it be?: “Don’t worry so much, enjoy yourself more.”
What’s your biggest regret?: “One time I went out with my friends and told some guy I went to Harvard Law School and it turned out he was a lawyer. I felt so bad about it that I never went back to that place. I can’t lie, I feel guilty and terrible about it.”
Biggest Insecurity?: “Sometimes people take my bluntness the wrong way and I feel bad. I’m really honest, but I don’t mean to be rude.”
Do you like your name?: “I love it! I think it goes with my personality. That’s why I always say the whole thing, Andrea Paola Collazo Borallí.”
Favorite quote?: “Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Gandhi
What’s your first memory?: “I remember being dropped off at my Aunt’s house. She took care of me during the day and my cousin and I used to play with a cardboard box. I also ate plain pasta and raisins a lot. Now I hate raisins.”
Favorite movie?: A Beautiful Mind.
Favorite Type of Music/Song?: “I love eighties rock music, my first concert was actually Van Halen, but as to one of my favorite songs, I’d have to say The Wire by HAIM.”
What does the future hold for you?: “Hopefully, a successful career in environmental law and an opportunity to help children around the world. I would love to become a UNICEF ambassador in order build water wells and schools for children around the world. Coming to Manhattanville College has definitely changed my perspective in life and opened me to new experiences.”