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Peer
advisors are carefully selected Honors students
trained in advising techniques as well as the
rules, regulations, and procedures of the University.
Peer advisors help first year students plan and
schedule their courses. They meet individually
with you each semester during your first year
to plan a specific program of courses. They are
also available to answer questions, make referrals,
and schedule appointments with the professional
staff. Talking with a knowledgeable and experienced
fellow student is often a great way to get help.
Micaela Brown |
Micaela hails from the town of Mankato, Minnesota. She is in her third year at the U of M and is majoring in philosophy as well as pursuing the pre-med track. When she graduates, she hopes to go to medical school in Canada because she is in support of universal health care. Her favorite philosophers (at the moment) are David Hume and Immanuel Kant. In her spare time her life revolves around the cinema. She enjoys watching movies, discussing them, and most of all collecting them. Her favorite directors are the Coen brothers, and she cannot pick a favorite movie because there are too many great choices. |
Nadia Huq |
Nadia is a junior by credits, but feels like a sophomore. She’s majoring in Chemistry and wishes Arabic or Islamic studies were minors, so she could do that too. When it's all said and done, she hopes to go to medical school and move to India to practice. Her mother is from Pakistan and her father is from India, and she was born and raised in the U.S. She considers herself active in the campus community, with organizations like Al-Madinah Cultural Center, the Muslim Student Association, Alpha Epsilon Delta (pre-med honors
society) and of course, the Honors Student Association of CLA, the best organization that ever existed. When not looking for speakers for HAS’s events or coordinating something, she enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee and basketball, eating good food with good friends, sleeping, and relaxing at home. Her words of wisdom for campus events: Bring the food, and they will come.
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Brianne Ketteman |
Brianne is a junior majoring in psychology with a minor in English. She enjoys volunteering and is the Vice President of Community Service for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars here on campus as well as a member of the Relay for Life planning committee. She would love to travel and plans to study abroad during the summer, and in her spare time she enjoys photography, soccer, and reading things other than textbooks. |
Ryan Kroening |
Ryan is a fourth year student designing his own major in Cultural Anthropology, Design, and Family Social Science with minors in GLBT Studies and CSCL. He is originally from small town Ladysmith, WI, and is very glad to be living, working, and having fun in the big Twin Cities area. One can find Ryan relaxing around his apartment, exploring the cities, hanging out with friends, and obsessing over movies, music, and the best of both worlds— musicals! Other interests include reading, puzzles, cleaning and organizing things, a wide span of craft projects, and singing, playing, or listening to music. Favorite quote and piece of advice: truth is a matter of perspective.
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Jake LaSota |
Jake is currently a senior in fear of his impending graduation. While majoring in music performance, he has made brief appearances as an Italian minor, a linguistics minor, a Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences minor and a pre-med student. Most of his time is taken up by learning to sing, listening to singers, complaining about singing and, sometimes, but not often enough, actually performing. In addition to being a constant fixture at the School of Music, Jake enjoys people-watching, going to the orchestra, trying to avoid picking up a Minnesotan accent and delaying graduation at all costs. His non-verbal interests include the color orange, brand new socks, rainy days, and wheat thins. Jake looks forward to one day having free time and, seeing as his major won’t get him a job, spending the rest of his life in graduate school ...or becoming a wandering minstrel. |
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Kaitlin is a senior majoring in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and minoring in GLBT studies. She is from the suburb of Champlin and loves living in Minneapolis. She hopes to move onto the teacher licensure program next year and eventually become a teacher for English as a Second Language. She helped teach English in Sweden one semester and thinks Swedish “jättecool”. She enjoys hosting dinner parties with vegetarian fare as well as reading all kinds of literature and going art gallery-hopping. She dreams of ridding the world of cars, vans, and trucks. |
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Jory Nagel |
Jory is a senior that made her way to the Twin Cities campus from smalltown Minnesota. A double major in English and Biology, Society, & Environment, Jory has enriched her university experience by pursuing these diverse fields and studying abroad in the United Kingdom and in Italy. Her education has also consisted of experiencing a multi-cultural panorama by backpacking through Europe and learning the ways of the world as a wandering traveler. She enjoys trying to speak French and Italian, especially in the same conversation, and hopes to improve and perhaps perfect these languages when the overwhelming wealth of opportunities found in university life are no longer there to distract her. Jory spends her free time playing games, indulging in long philosophical talks and finding lakes to swim in. |
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Brent is a senior who would like to one day graduate with a BFA in Dance and a BA in French Studies. He comes from the small town of Argyle, MN, which is located in the northwestern tip of Minnesota. Brent is interested in exploring the rich interplay between dance and language and would like some day to run his own dance company out of Minneapolis. In the meantime, he would love to perform in one of the many fantastic modern dance companies in the region, in the nation, and abroad. Brent spends nearly twelve hours a day at the Barbara Barker Center for Dance and enjoys sitting on the floor in its lobby and people watching. |
| Melissa Shelsby |
Melissa is a Senior majoring in English and minoring in Korean. She enjoys all kinds of literary works, but is particularly interested in Korean and Korean American literature. Melissa is something of a vagabond traveler and has ventured into many locales over the years: born in Korea, she spent her formative years in Maryland and Virginia, then moved to East Brunswick, New Jersey for her high school career, where she was a tap dancer and AP student. Her next step? She moved to Minnesota and became an honors peer advisor and President of the Honors Student Association. In the future, Melissa plans to teach high school English. Her secret passion? Melissa enjoys planning her Halloween costumes months in advance: in 2005, she impersonated everyone's favorite talking meatball, Meatwad of TV's Aqua Teen Hunger Force, in a spiffy hand-made papier-mâché costume, taking second place in the Gophers After Dark costume contest. |
Elizabeth Vieira |
Liz is a third-year senior studying Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. Although she is from Brookfield, Wisconsin, she loves the Twins and pleads “no comment” on the Vikings/ Packers rivalry. She currently coaches speech and debate at Lakeville North High School. She loves to travel and is fortunate enough to be able to go all over the U.S. with the debaters she coaches. After graduating, she plans to attend Law School with an emphasis in International Law. Luckily, you won’t have to meet Liz until after she has finished studying for and taken the LSAT; just be careful not to mention “LSAT score” or “Law School applications” around her. In addition to applying to Law School and narrowing down her interests for her senior thesis from “everything” to something more specific, she spends her free time reading and relaxing and is an avid viewer of independent films. She loves animals and hopes to soon adopt two kittens, whom she will name Simba and Nala. |
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