This week’s campus cutie, Iain Bopp, loves the smell of chlorine in the morning. When he’s not on duty as a Rec lifeguard, he’s in the water playing his favorite sport, water polo, with the MU Water Polo club team. This multilingual merman was such a jokester; it was difficult to get some straight answers out of him!
Hometown: “I consider myself a citizen of the world.” However, if he had to pick just one hometown, it would be Waikoloa, Hawaii.
Major: International Studies and German with a Spanish minor
Relationship status: “Completely infatuated and lucky enough to be with the girl of my dreams.”
Languages: fluent in English, Spanish and German
Favorite quote: “Friendship is like peeing on yourself: Everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.”
Dream job: “Johnny-on-the-Spot cleaner. Somebody has to do it … just trying to make the world a better place.”
Favorite thing about Mizzou: playing water polo at the Rec
Little known fact: “I live a secret nerd life reading fantasy books and playing Dungeons and Dragons. Please don’t tell.”
Most embarrassing moment: “Slipping down the entire flight of stairs in the A&S building during Snowpocalypse, and taking two dainty girls down with me. Horrifying.”
If he could have any superpower: “The power of punctuality. I know it sounds dumb, but hey, never being late! For anything! And always being in the right place at the right time. It would be sweet.”
Hidden talent: “I can make Starburst wrappers into origami cranes using my tongue.”
Dream place to live (besides Mizzou, of course): Sevilla, Spain