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Katie Walters

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Chatham chapter.

Year: 2014
 
Major: English/Secondary Education

Hometown: Pittsburgh
 
Relationship Status: It’s complicated with the Cougar Mascot
 
Activities/Interests: blogging, biking, writing poetry, hanging out in libraries, and most importantly, puns
 
Childhood Dream Job: To be a novelist
 
Favorite Musician/Band: Neutral Milk Hotel
 
Favorite Movie: The Royal Tenenbaums
 
Favorite TV Show: Glee! Kurt Hummel is the best!
 
Favorite Sandwich: Peanut butter and crushed Lays potato chips
 
 
Favorite Place on Chatham’s Campus and Why:
 
The little bench by the pond. It’s a perfect place to gather your thoughts and scribble in your moleskin.
 
 
After college, I’d like to:
 
Hopefully get into Teach for America, and after two years of that go to the University of Chicago for grad school.
 
 
If I could have any mythical creature as a pet, it would be:
 
A Pegasus–it would completely simplify all commuting needs and would be spreading gay pride
 
 
My perfect Friday night would be:
 
Nothing specific, as long as I was doing something with my Chatham ladies, it would be wonderful!

  Mara Flanagan is entering her seventh semester as a Chapter Advisor. After founding the Chatham University Her Campus chapter in November 2011, she served as Campus Correspondent until graduation in 2015. Mara works as a freelance social media consultant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She interned in incident command software publicity at ADASHI Systems, gamification at Evive Station, iQ Kids Radio in WQED’s Education Department, PR at Markowitz Communications, writing at WQED-FM, and marketing and product development at Bossa Nova Robotics. She loves jazz, filmmaking and circus arts.