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Aerospace major wants to shoot for the moon

Allee Evensen

Utah Statesman: What’s the best decision you’ve ever made?

Jordon Bradley: Coming to Utah State. They gave me the most money and my family has a long heritage here. I just love it here. My parents met here, my grandpa got his bachelor’s degree here and all three of my uncles have gone here.

US: What is your favorite building on campus?

JB: Probably the library. I spend a lot of time there. I love that you can go there and be by yourself. It’s quiet.

   

US: What is your most prized possession?

JB: My computer. Everything is on there.

US: What’s the craziest dare you’ve ever done, and would you do it again?

JB: Running around my house in the middle of winter with no shoes or socks on. And yes, I would do it again.

US: If you could travel through time and meet yourself as a kid, what advice would you give yourself?

JB: Prepare for high school. The academic side was easy but the social side was hard. I wasn’t a very social kid.

US: What’s the worst date you’ve ever been on?

JB: Sadie Hawkins of my junior year of high school. The actual date was okay, it was who I went with. It was awkward. She liked me but I didn’t like her. But she didn’t know that.

US: What items are always in your refrigerator?

JB: Yogurt, milk and cheese.

US: What famous person do you think you resemble most?

JB: I’ve been told I look like Brad Pitt, but I don’t think that’s very true.

US: What is your first thought when you wake up in the morning?

JB: I don’t want to get up.

US: What is your dream job?

JB: I don’t really have one, but I think working on rockets would be awesome.

US: What is your most hated chore?

JB: A couple chores are down there, but most of them are okay. Probably mowing the lawn. I hate mowing the lawn.

US: What’s one thing you miss about being a kid?

JB: The easiness of it. The flow that life has when you’re young.

US: When you die, what do you want people to remember about you?

JB: That I was fun to be around, a good guy. And that I was respected.

US: What is one place you wouldn’t be caught dead?

JB: A strip club.

US: If you could go on a road trip with anybody, dead or alive, who would you go with?

JB: Probably my parents. They’ve given me a lot of stuff in my life and I’d like to give back to them.

US: What is the best job you’ve ever had?

JB: A pharmacy tech. The people that worked there were awesome, I loved being around them. I basically went down and sold prescriptions to people that paid for them. It was fun.

US: What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?

JB: You’re going to go far … or in high school I was voted most likely to succeed.

US: What’s the worst advice you’ve ever taken?

JB: Don’t pee into the wind.

US: What was the highlight of spring break?

JB: Visiting my friends in Cedar City. We just hung out, but I hadn’t seen them in a couple months.

US: What ‘90s TV show describes your life best?

JB: Is “Friends” from the ‘90s? That one.

US: If you could get a degree right now and work wherever you wanted, where would it be?

JB: I would work at the THRUST facility in Magna, and eventually work for NASA.

US: What is your favorite memory as an Aggie?

JB: In soccer class, wiping this kid out. Me and him were both going for the ball.

US: When you’re 80, what do you see yourself doing?

JB: Living in a small town, going 4-wheeling in the mountains.

US: If you could sit anywhere you wanted at an Aggie basketball game, where would it be?

JB: With the rowdies.

US: What is your earliest memory?

JB: Breaking my leg when I was 3. I was playing on a stack of railroad ties and I fell.

US: What is your weirdest quirk?

JB: I notice and remember stupid things. One morning on the CVTD bus, there were icicles on the bumper, but the next day it snowed and there were no icicles. I figured the day that there were icicles, the bus must have been washed.

– allee.evensen@aggiemail.usu.edu