Name: Stephen Parrish
Hometown: Bethesda, Maryland
Major: History and Political Science
Class Year: 2014
After visiting campus on a really nice day, this week’s campus cutie made the commitment to come to Bucknell University. Now, the newly 20-year-old Stephen Parrish has become campus cutie, but still hasn’t experienced the Freeze.
The Basics
Favorite Book: Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Favorite Movie: Fight Club
Favorite store: Starbucks
Most played song on your ipod: What’d I say by Ray Charles
Favorite Class at Bucknell: International Politics with Professor Gregory Sanjian
Favorite aspect of Bucknell: It’s a beautiful campus, both the students and the campus itself.
Campus Activities: I am in the A cappella group Beyond Unison. I am a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, and am on the Events Committee, Derby Days Committee, Arts Committee, and Pledge Education Committee.
Campus Posse: Jenni Mykrantz, Brandon Morris, Justin Hicks, Eric Stillwell, Hugo McMenamin
General Interests: In the past year or so I have been trying to learn how to play piano without reading music. I just do it by ear. I sneak off to practice, but tell my friends I am doing something different. I am also interested in Music Production.
Little Known Fact: I can do four or five front handsprings in a row. But a better little known fact: when I was 13 or 14, I did a front handspring and wasn’t focusing. I fell awkwardly on my neck and fractured it.
Girls, Girls, Girls
Relationship Status: Complex
What you look for in a girl: Someone who can talk for a long time, and you have to be crazy but not necessarily show it ever. Fundamentally crazy, we’ll call it.
Female turnoff: Chain smoking cigarettes.
Celebrity Crush: Angelina Jolie. That’s a lot of woman.
The Best of the Rest
Proudest Accomplishment: My senior year of high school, I was the lead in our musical, Kiss Me Kate. I played Fred. I sang seven solos, which was difficult.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years: Living on an island somewhere, because I already made it big. And in a mansion. Everything tropical. Toucans everywhere. Koalas if they are native.
3 words to describe yourself: Creative, ambitious, and easy-going.