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Russell Kirmayer

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

Name: Russell Kirmayer

Major: Applied physics with a mechanical engineering minor

Graduating Year: 2013

Hometown: San Francisco, CA

Relationship Status: Single

Hobbies/Interests: Spending time outside hiking, swimming, and running. Being at the beach. Playing musical instruments, and cooking.

Campus Activities: Rowing team, student senate, Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity, buggy race pusher, physics teaching assistant, undergraduate peer mentor.

Favorite CMU Memory: CMU Carnival, every year.

Favorite Foods: A nice, juicy burger (medium rare) or a slice of New York style thin crust pizza.

Qualities You Look For in a Girl: Self-confident, genuine/sincere, adventurous, purpose-driven. I like girls who are not superficial and appreciate trying things outside of their comfort zone. 

The Perfect Date: Cooking a meal and then eating it together. It’s fun, yummy, and allows for more interaction than simply talking over a meal.

Fun Fact: I’ve driven across the country three times and have perfect pitch.

Soniya Shah is an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University studying technical writing and pre-med.
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.