Name: David Lai
Year: Junior
Age: 20
Hometown: Wallingford, PA
Major: Psychology
Relationship Status: In an open relationship with my vegetarianism
Fun Fact: I was once in a Jewish A Cappella group. I’m not Jewish.
What are you involved in at Penn?
The activity that takes up most of my time is probably my a cappella group (check us out on Youtube! PennCounterparts). Aside from that I’m also an RA in the quad, a research assistant at Penn’s Positive Psychology Center, a STAT tutor, a PennGreen leader, in a couple of activist groups, a founder of a Fortune 500 company, and the true donor for the David Pottruck fitness center.
If you could go back, what would you tell your freshman self?
Nothing! I loved my freshman self. Can my freshman self come to the future and teach me how to study again?
What makes you laugh?
How reminiscent this interview is of a Facebook note circa 2009 – you know, one of those “This suRveY iS rEalLy lOng. Are you ready??”
Favorite movie: The Help
Favorite TV show: Friends
Favorite song of the moment:
Can I have two? Sun It Rises and White Winter Hymnal, both by Fleet Foxes.
Dream job: Social Theorist/Performance Arts Activist
Favorite pick-up line: “Masc only”
What do you look for in a significant other?
An affinity for Beyonce, Chinese Food (I love to cook for people), and a disdain for the patriarchy.
What is your ideal first date?
Tandem bike ride along the Schuylkill, and then a nice dinner at a local restaurant that sources all its food from local, organic farms, and then lying down in a park and star gazing.
Describe yourself in 3 words:
Beauty, Grace, Ms.UnitedStates