Brooks Hosfeld is a 19-year-old Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Anthropology double major from Carmel, IN. He is quite possibly the coolest dude I know which is why he was chosen for this week’s campus profile!
Her Campus (HC): What are you involved in on campus?
Brooks Hosfeld (BH): I’m primarily involved in TRANSform and Demia, though I am also a part of other diversity organizations such as the Diversity Council, Dawg Days, and the Diversity Ambassadors and Advocates. It seems like there’s more, but that might be it.
HC: Favorite place to hang out on campus? Off campus?
BH: My favorite place to hang out on campus is currently the couches by the history/antrhopology and political science offices. It’s the only spot in Jordan Hall with windows that open, and it’s a lovely spot to sit on nice days. I’m there often enough that some professors and friends jokingly refer to it as ‘Brooks Nook’. One of my favorite off-campus spots is the 49th and Pennsylvania Hubbarb & Cravens. There’s always sunlight streaming through the large glass windows.
HC: If you were a genre of music which would it be?
BH: I’m really not good with identifying genres, so I’m not sure. (Editor’s Note: Brooks is totally Indie Folk.)
HC: One thing you want to do before you die?
BH: Own a golden retriever. Also probably two cats. I have to be fully independently financially stable before I adopt animals, though, so that’s really the one thing I know I want in the future.
HC: What’s a quirk you have that not a lot of people know about?
BH: I own so many plants. My roommates and I have 50-60 between the four of us, and it requires all of my self-control to walk by a plant section in the store without buying another. Probably anyone who follows me on Snapchat knows that, though, since I periodically introduce my plants to the world.
HC: Secret (or not so secret) pet peeve of yours?
BH: Patriarchy, racism, classism, ableism, capitalism, that kind of thing. Also when people don’t clean up the kitchen after they cook.
HC: What is one motto you live by?
BH: I don’t really have a motto! Everything changes so quickly that I value the phrases that are signaficant and relavent to me at any particular moment.