Name: Eleanor Seaman
Hometown: Hanover, New Hampshire
Year: 2017
Major: French
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Hogwarts house: Hufflepuff
Relationship status: In a relationship
Favorite breakfast food: Homemade waffles with real maple syrup
Campus activities: Herpetology lab, fencing team coach, backstage work with the theater department
Eleanor representing the Herp Lab with the corn snake at a local outreach event
On fencing: “I fenced all through high school. … It’s a great sport. People call it physical chess. It’s a martial art. We’ve got a really good turnout this year.”
On her incredible costuming talent: “Theatrical costuming is something that I got into in high school. As a little kid I loved Halloween, and realized in middle school that I didn’t have to wait for Halloween to make costumes, I can just make costumes all the time. I got really into cosplay. … Junior year of high school I had a friend who was an actor, and he was like “Hey! You sew things! Do you want to come sew things for the high school theater program?” And I was like “sure!” And it turns out “sew things” meant manage the costume shop, run wardrobe for the shows, design shows, make costumes, so I just kind of fell into that. I love it. I’ve worked the past four summers at a summer stock theater called the New London Barn Playhouse. We do seven shows in three months and it’s insane- over a hundred hour work weeks.”
On her dream pet to sneak into her dorm room: “I would love a snake. All through high school I was campaigning for one, and my parents would not let me have one.”
On her favorite book of all time: “Definitely The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkein. It’s a whole bunch of history and backstory to The Lord of the Rings universe.”
On the ice cream flavor that represents her personality: “I’ll go for the mint chocolate chip. It’s sweet, but it’s also got a little bit of a bite to it. It’s a refreshing flavor.… The mint chocolate chip they’ve got here at Commons is pretty good actually.”
On the one thing she’d change about Davidson: “I don’t want Davidson to let itself get stagnant. We’ve got such a rich history of tradition, and a lot of that is really important to keep, like the Honor Code. And we’re adding all this new stuff, like the Digitial Studies program and all the Makerspace stuff, and I think we’re really thinking about diversity. I think those are really good steps to keep making sure that we honor our traditions and our history but not let ourselves fall back into them and not put out students who aren’t prepared for the modern world.”