Year: 2018
Hometown: Tucson, AZ —> Hershey, PA
Major(s)/minor(s): Planning on doubling Women & Gender Studies & Psych with a concentration in neuroscience and minoring in legal studies
Her Campus: Relationship status?
Alex Shapiro: Single
HC: What activities are you involved in at Brandeis?
AS: I’m in Voices of Soul acapella group, I’m a student ambassador, I’m a photographer for Spoon University, and I was recently accepted as a peer counselor in SSIS
HC: What are you looking forward to most this summer?
AS: My friend’s family is taking me to Brazil in May!
HC: What do you look for in a romantic partner?
AS: Someone who can take it when I dish it and dish it back. They have to be a spooning enthusiast, smart, laid back, and funny. Oh, and they can’t fux with the patriarchy.
HC: Biggest pet peeve?
AS: The patriarchy.
HC: What’s something about you that most people wouldn’t expect?
AS: As it turns out, I am not related to Carl & Ruth.
HC: If you could live life as a part of any TV show universe, where would you live and why?
AS: Probably Broad City because I can tell that that is how my life will look not too far down the road.
HC: Why did you want to come to Brandeis?
AS: Because I wanted to get my gavel going!
HC: When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
AS: A singer/dancer/president
HC: What’s your dream job now?
AS: I almost went to art school for photography and that would still be the dream, but I like the idea of going into clinical psych or maybe law to do title IX work
HC: What’s your favorite restaurant in Waltham?
AS: Baan Thai or Ponzu Sushi
HC: What’s your most embarrassing moment?
AS: that time I got nominated for campus cutie…Ugh!
HC: What do you never leave home without?
AS: my resting sad face and a pack of orbit sweet-mint gum
Fast Facts:
Celebrity crush: Mark Ruffalo
Spirit animal: mod cat
Personal motto: you miss 100% of the shots if you’re a bad athlete
Favorite song right now: The Nebbra Remix of Take It or Leave it by Cage The Elephant
Favorite class at Brandies: Behavioral Neuroscience or Documenting Race, Class and Gender Through Photography