Name: Steven Czyz
Hometown: Sterling Heights, Michigan
Year in School: First year graduate student
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Relationship Status: Taken
This week’s Campus Cutie is a Michigan transplant with a penchant for all things adorable. Read on to learn more about this sweet and witty self proclaimed geek, Steven Czyz!
HC at Oregon State: What’s your favorite part about Oregon State?
Steven: That it’s on the West Coast.
HC at Oregon State: Where would you go on your dream vacation?
Steven: The Italian Alps.
HC at Oregon State: What do you miss most about Michigan?
Steven: My family, my friends, my cats, the food, Ann Arbor, and the thunderstorms are awesome.
HC at Oregon State: If you could choose a different career, what would you be?
Steven: Either a theoretical physicist or a cultural critic, critically examining art and music,or a director.
HC at Oregon State: What are the three qualities you look for in a person?
Steven: Curiosity –I want them to always be curious. Ambition — they have to be motivated by something internally. Also, intelligence and presence of mind — they have to be smart enough to make connections, as well as interest and challenge me and recognize their own flaws.
HC at Oregon State: What books do you want to read next?
Steven: Middlemarch (George Eliot); The Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolf); All The Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy).
HC at Oregon State: What are you involved with on campus?
Steven: I’m pretty involved in the Nuclear Engineering department, and I spend most of my time at the Radiation Center.
HC at Oregon State: What makes you smile?
Steven: Genuinely surprising acts of thoughtfulness and awe-inspiring vistas. Cute things, particularly inanimate objects with faces on them. Surmounting my own personal mountains (challenges, not real mountains, though I suppose that would fall under the umbrella of metaphorical mountains…). Exceptionally witty turns of phrase/word play.
If you see this cutie around campus make sure to say hi, and stay tuned for next week’s Campus Cutie!