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

Name: Alex Zwiren
Major: Material Science and Engineering
Year: 2014
Hometown: Hoboken, NJ
Relationship status: Taken
Hobbies/Interests: Soccer, video games, going to museums
Favorite type of music: All kinds with the exception of country… any
kind of country
Favorite book: Sirens of Titan
Describe yourself in three words: Fun!!!, understanding, spontaneous
Post-college aspirations: Make cool stuff with materials!
Hidden Talent: Excellent at making noises
Random fact: Pride myself on sand castle making
Ideal Date: Going to an art museum for a bit followed by eating tons of
food then see a concert
What you look for in a girl: Scarlett Johansson… fun, relaxed, caring,
can make me laugh, that sort of stuff. Oh and girls named Hannah
Dellabella

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Laura Stiles is a Creative Writing, Professional Writing double major at Carnegie Mellon University who will be graduating in May 2014. In addition to being Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Carnegie Mellon chapter of HerCampus.com, she is Co-Prose Editor of The Oakland Review, Carnegie Mellon’s literary-arts journal, a manuscript reader for Carnegie Mellon University Press, and has copy-edited for Carnegie Mellon’s newspaper, The Tartan. She was also Communications and Arts Management Intern at The Hillman Center for Performing Arts in summer 2012, and is ecstatic to be studying abroad in Sheffield, England in spring 2013. In her free time, she enjoys singing along to music on long car rides, spontaneously kicking off her shoes to explore lakes and creeks, and curling up with a soft blanket and a captivating book. She was also recently pleasantly surprised to discover that she has a taste for sushi.