This week’s campus cutie speaks three languages, juggles with the Penn Illusionists and takes life one day at a time. Read on to learn about this heartthrob who, though far from a hopeless romantic, came all the way from Pakistan to charm us American girls.
Age: 19
Birthday: August 27th, 1992
Year: 2015
Speaks: English, Urdu, French
Major: Math, Physics, or Computer Science (or two of the three)
Relationship status: Single
Hometown: Karachi, Pakistan
Extracurriculars: Model UN, West Philly Tutoring, Penn Illusionists (he’s a juggler), Penn Cricket Club
Most time-consuming aspect of your life at Penn? Finding good food, and also my writing seminar.
Weekend plans: Frat-hopping, kicking [previous UPenn Campus Cutie] Yash Kothari’s butt at FIFA.
Perfect spring break: Anywhere with a beach, the nicest beach possible.
Favorite food: Kobe beef steak.
Dog person or cat person: I was a cat person—I used to be ridiculously scared of dogs until one year ago I decided that I was 18 and being scared of dogs was unreasonable. Now I think cats are boring…
What is the first thing you notice about a girl? You can’t really notice a personality so I’d be lying but I guess I notice how easy it is to make conversation with her. That’s really important.
What do you find most appealing about girls at Penn? Their ability to make intelligent conversation.
What do you find least appealing? How complicated they are.
What do you look for in a girl? I have to trust her, and I have to be able to talk to her
Perfect first date: Ice skating. It’s personal enough for you to make conversation, but if it gets awkward, just fall and you’ll have something to talk about.
Do you believe in soulmates? Would I sound like a cynical jerk if I said I didn’t? At the risk of sounding like a polygamist, I believe that there are multiple soul mates for everyone—there is more than one woman who can complete me.
Does true love last forever? What is true love? That is the question…
Do you believe in love at first sight? Essentially, no.
Favorite pick up line: I don’t use pick up lines because they’re disrespectful, but I used one as a joke once and it made the girl laugh: “Are you a parking ticket? Because you’ve got fine written all over you.”
Celebrity Crush: Miranda Kerr (Victoria’s Secret model)
Penn bucket list: Dinner on the rooftop of College Hall, visit the Ben Franklin statue, destroy freshman meal plans [Ed note: this is on HerCampus UPenn’s bucket list, too], and abolish writing seminars.
Words to live by: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path.” –Steve Jobs