Freshman English major Lindsay Zwally answers the Proust Questionnaire:
1. What makes you happiest?
Eating food.
2. What is your greatest fear?
Airplanes and needles equally.
3. What do you like most about yourself?
My hair.
4. If you could change something about yourself, what would it be?
To be more outgoing.
5. What do you dislike most in others?
Annoying personalities.
6. What do you most value in friendships?
The actual friendship.
7. What do you most value in relationships?
Honesty.
8. If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?
Spiderman because he's cool, or Beth in The Lucky One (the movie).
9. What is your dream job?
Author.
10. What are you most looking forward to in the future?
Moving out.
Freshman lacrosse and hockey player, Klayton Garman, answers the Proust Questionnaire.
What makes you happiest?
- Hockey or lacrosse
What is your greatest fear?
- Being buried alive
What do you like most about yourself?
- My flow (that I just cut off).
What is your favorite quote?
- "they don't think it be like it is, but it do" -Oscar Gamble
Which talent would you most like to have?
- Singing
What do you think is your greatest achievement?
- York County Player of the Year for lacrosse.
If you could choose to be anything in a next life, what would you be?
- A professional athlete
Where would you most like to live?
- Cape Cod
What is your most treasured possession?
- Stuff I have received from my grandfather.
If you could change something about yourself, what would it be?
- My work ethic
What is your dream job?
- Professional hockey player
James (Scott) Travers, junior English major and lacrosse player at Lebanon Valley College, answers the Proust Questionnaire.
What makes you happiest?
- Being around my family and girlfriend.
What is your greatest fear?
- Not making enough money to support my family.
What do you like most about yourself?
- The ability to communicate
What is your favorite quote?
- Don't have one.
Which talent would you most like to have?
- The ability to play a musical instrument
What do you think is your greatest achievement?
- Learning how to talk after complications when I was a baby.
If you could choose to be anything in a next life, what would you be?
- A turtle because of how slow they move. They do not miss anything and they live for a very long time.
Where would you most like to live?
- Somewhere in the Caribbean or Hawaii
What is your most treasured possession?
- Pieces from my grandfather's naval attire
If you could change something about yourself, what would it be?
- My temper
What is your dream job?
- Open my own business. Either sports related or food related.
Tim Flynn ('05), Director of Sports Information at Lebanon Valley College, answers the Proust Questionnaire.
What is your greatest fear?
- Scorpions
What do you like most about yourself?
- I’m tall
What living celebrity do you most despise?
- Chris Brown, although it’s hard to choose just one
What living celebrity do you most admire?
- Bill Gates
6. Who is your favorite writer?
- Annie Proulx
Where would you most like to live?
- Paradise Valley, Montana
What is your biggest regret?
- I don’t believe in regrets. They’re not healthy.
If you knew you only had one day to live, how would you spend it?
- Drinking, I assume.
What is your most treasured possession?
- My photos.
If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?
- Indiana Jones
Dr. Pettice, Full Time Professor of English at Lebanon Valley College, answers the Proust Questionnaire.
What is your greatest fear?
- Being misunderstood.
What do you like most about yourself?
- I'm a very fast reader.
What living celebrity do you most despise?
- I try not to despise people, and it's a strong word to use for people I know nothing about. I'm annoyed by most reality stars, but who knows what demons they're fighting?
What living celebrity do you most admire?
- Celebrities, as in entertainers, and not including business, government, and organization leaders? I admire celebrities for their artistry, if indeed they are artists. Let's say Joss Whedon.
Who is your favorite writer?
- That's a very difficult question to answer. I guess I'll say James Joyce.
Where would you most like to live?
- New Zealand. That was easy!
What is your biggest regret?
- That my dad didn't live long enough to meet my daughter.
If you knew you only had one day to live, how would you spend it?
- With my family at Knoebel's.
What is your most treasured possession?
- An external hard drive filled with pictures of my family.
If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?
- Úrsula Iguarán, the matriarch of the Buendía family in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
Lebanon Valley Men's lacrosse player, Alex Beard, answers the Proust Questionnaire.
What makes you happiest?
- My friends and sometimes dark liquor.
What is your greatest fear?
- My mother. And letting myself down.
What do you like most about yourself?
- My hair and I think I'm a pretty intelligent person, though that's certainly up for discussion.
What is your favorite quote?
- I don't like platitudes, but the whole first paragraph of Camus's 'The Stranger' is one of my favorite things ever put down in ink.
Which talent would you most like to have?
- Crafting a great email, or Rajon Rondo's basketball ability.
What do you think is your greatest achievement?
- As yet, getting into college has been pretty cool. That I'm still here and having some semblance of success is nice, too.
If you could choose to be anything in a next life, what would you be?
- Happy.
Where would you most like to live?
- France or Italy or some place that isn't Frederick, MD. And certainly not Annville, PA. A place with a palpable pulse.
What is your most treasured possession?
- My lacrosse stick or a pen.
If you could change something about yourself, what would it be?
- I guess being less conflicted on the inside would be nice, but that's part of what makes me who I is.
What is your dream job?
- Whatever Anthony Bourdain does, or a writer.
Malik Pedroso, junior attackman for Lebanon Valley's Men's lacrosse team, answers the Proust Questionnaire.
What makes you happiest?
Playing lacrosse.
What is your greatest fear?
That I will become paralyzed.
What do you like most about yourself?
That I'm nice.
What is your favorite quote?
As we walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil.
Which talent would you most like to have?
If I could sing.
What do you think is your greatest achievement?
Playing college lacrosse.
If you could choose to be anything in a next life, what would you be?
A dog.
Where would you most like to live?
Somewhere warm.
What is your most treasured possession?
My computer.
If you could change something about yourself, what would it be?
My height.
What is your dream job?
To play professional lacrosse.
Director of Residential Life, Jason Kuntz, takes time to answer the Proust Questionnaire:
1. What do you like most about yourself?
I am a good father, husband, son, and brother. Plus, I am a well-rounded person with an appreciation for the arts and sports.
2. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
Be less of a procrastinator.
3. What living celebrity do you most admire?
I do not have one.
4. What living celebrity do you most despise?
The Kardasian’s (although they are not really celebrities)
5. Which talent would you most like to have?
The ability to throw a 90mph fastball.
6. What do you think is your greatest achievement?
Having a loving and successful marriage and raising two outstanding boys. The two toughest jobs out there that we receive absolutely no training or education on while growing up are raising a family and being married.
7. Where would you most like to live?
Anywhere with my wife that has a climate with variety.
8. What do you most value in friendships?
Honesty and a willingness to listen and offer advice when asked.
9. What are you most looking forward to in the future?
Seeing my boys turn into young men and growing old with my smart and beautiful wife.
10. If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?
Darth Vader
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