USD Magazine, Fall 2004

by Krystn Shrieve and Julene Snyder Photographs by Tim Mantoani

t's not surprising that rhe five freshmen we've selected to follow over the nexr four years are unsure what to expect - after all, they've only just arrived ar Alcala Park. Bur one rhing they do know is that they're excited to be at USO. In this first installment of a multi-year project that will follow rhese srudenrs through their academic careers, we introduce to you Brianne Butler, Carmen Gonzalez, Kendra Hoffman-Curry, Marco Martinez and Mart Rurz, five members of the Universiry of San Diego's Class of 2008. Selected with help from the admissions office, we brought our fab five together on the very first morning of classes. Within min– utes, they were giggling among themselves and charring like old friends. Ah, youth. While their campus life experiences were extremely limited - afrer all, they'd been here less than a week - their enthusiasm and hope was boundless. We congregated in the front lobby of Founders Hall, taking over the room for interviews and photos. We kept things interesting by asking each student to choose a random slip of paper from a coffee mug and answer - off the tops of their heads - selec– tions from a batch of 20 questions we'd formulated. Inspired by the "Proust Questionnaire" (popularized in recent years by Vtmiry Fair), these questions are intended to provide an unvarnished glimpse into the psyche of rhe students - or at least to remind our readers how very fluid tastes and opinions can be when one is 18 years old and away from home for the first rime. So join us in welcoming these five fresh-faced srudenrs to our pages. We hope to have them back every fall as they progress through rheir higher education and emerge - hopefully unscathed - with minds filled with knowledge and diploma in hand.

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