Meet Ethan Woodring: the hottest catch you’ll find on campus.
Year: Senior
Major: Graphic Design
Minor: Communications
Hometown: Boone, NC
Q: How would you describe yourself?A: If I had to choose one adjective to describe myself, I would probably choose nomadic. My life has been spent floating around and absorbing different experiences and meeting cool people. My bags are always packed and ready to go on an adventure. I am all about having a good time and spreading it around to the ones I love.
Q: What are your hobbies?A: I am an avid coffee drinker. I like to chill hard, as well as travel the globe and listen to live music, swimming and hiking. I am thoroughly into photography as well as digital art and painting. I love to try a tasty new brew and really good food. I love good movies and appreciate a good music video. Down to try anything once.
Q: Who’s your role model?A: I don’t have one particular person who is my sole role model. I think it is important to try and emulate all the good qualities that I recognize and identify with in everyone I surround myself with. I try and be a mixture of the kindness and light emitted by my friends, the care and support of my parents and family, and last but not least the accepting and positve-vibes that radiate from of my Appalachian family, especially in rough times.
Q: What’s your dream vacation?A: My dream vacation would probably take place for about three weeks aboard a luxurious private yacht off the Mediterranean coast of Ibiza. There would be much time spent popping bottles of top-shelf Dom Perignon, whale watching, and scuba diving around sunken ships looking for treasure as well as searching for the great sunken city of Atlantis. My closest 100 friends would be more than welcome to join, bathing suit only rule 99% of the time. You’re all invited; bring a covered dish.
Q: What’s your dream date?A: My dream date would consist of flying out to Red Rocks Amphitheater for a show of my significant other’s choosing, Phish would be epic but let’s be real I would never be able to get tickets to that even in a dream-world. I would also be down for some Pretty Lights or Sound Tribe, but would probably settle for Bassnectar, Major Lazer, or some String Cheese Incident. Oh yeah and the date part would also include the consumption of much delicious food and drink. And hey while in Colorado do as the Colorado-ians do and maybe check out a dispensary or two. Who knows.
Q: What’s a fun fact about yourself?A: I have seen Britney Spears three or so times, give or take, made eye-contact once. Life was made. No shame here.
Q: What’s your dream job?A: My dream job would to be free-lance photographer/artist, I would fly around the world and be a professional Instagrammer. I would ideally get paid to photograph and show the world the beautiful people, places and events and that reside on the planet as themselves, giving people an eye-eopening world-view that they might never get to experience themselves if not for my work.
Q: What’s your most embarrassing moment?A: While traveling abroad in Cuba last summer, I had a minor breakdown when fellow American students and I were seemingly lured into this ritualistic party, I got paranoid that something terrible was about to happen in all of the heat and banging tribal drums, that I fled the scene and ran back to our casa we were staying in for the duration. I then convinced myself classmates were about to get sacrificed and panicked …Needless to say they weren’t and I looked like a stupid American with visions of terrible things I had grown up seeing on TV about traveling abroad. Only a chicken was sacrificed, very anti-climactic.
Q: Who’s your celebrity crush?A: Rihanna, she is the queen of no f’s given, she’s all about that paper, puts out some club-bangers every now and again, and she’s exquisitely beautiful. All of these things are top-notch in my book.
Q: What’s the most fun thing you’ve done in your life?A: The first time I went to Bonnaroo in 2012 with all of my very closest homies at the time. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into and had the best time of our lives. ‘Roo got me hooked on the music festival scene and I have had my best and most exciting memories from college while in attendance at these. I have met so many good people and learned so much, I almost feel indebted to Bonnaroo for that, but my empty wallet can already attest to that.