Name: Mitchell Veith
Hometown: Hershey, PA
School/Year: CC ‘15
Major: Neuroscience and Music
Relationship? Happily taken
Tell us a little bit about what you do on campus: I’m a COÖP leader (ROP foreva), brother of Sigma Nu, and former member of the men’s swimming and diving team. I also work in a lab studying nerve activity in the inner ear up at the CUMC and DJ/make music at festivities around campus.
Favorite class you’re ever taken at Columbia: Attention and Perception
Favorite college memory: Opening Bacchanal last year
Favorite Place in NYC: Lincoln Center
Orens, Joes, or Starbucks? Starbucks, I have simple tastes in caffeine
Westside, Milanos, or Digg In? Milano, H14<3
Best restaurant in Mo’Hi: Pisticci
Dream Job: The taste tester at Ben & Jerry’s
Best date you’ve ever been on: I don’t have a particular one, but I’d say the dinner and a concert style made for the best times I’ve had
What do you look for in a partner? A shared interest in the worlds of food and music, intelligence, kindness, charm, and rationality
Celeb Crush: John Oliver
Any weird talents? I’m decently good at doing imitations of people I know, which gets me into trouble at times. I think I do a pretty good Deborah Mowshowitz.
If you could live in one place in the world for a year all expenses paid where would it be? Vienna, so much music and psych history, plus the rest of Europe is at your doorstep
Top 5 things you want to do before you graduate?
1. Tickle Prezbo
2. Have a final supper at Tom’s
3. Visit museums besides the MoMA and the Met
4. Make it into an episode of SVU
5. Acquire the Heights margarita methodology
Three things you can’t live without: Family, friends, & food