Caught on Campus: Random Student Profiles
Erika HutchingsMajor: Business and MarketingYear: Freshman
Age: 18Home: Lehi, Utah
Favorite ice cream: StrawberryFavorite food: funeral potatoesFavorite color: blue
Utah Statesman: Why did you come to USU?
Erika Hutchings: It was far enough from home but also a good school for business.
US: What’s your favorite part about USU?
Hutchings: I like how there’s always something to do here. Like go sledding with your friends or we’ve had a lot of snow fights.
US: What’s your least favorite thing about USU?
Hutchings: Sometimes I don’t like walking to class in the snow. The snow is kind of the good and the bad thing about this place.
US: So do like snow for the most part?
Hutchings: Yeah.
US: Are you a skier or a snowboarder?
Hutchings: I’m a skier, I’ve been skiing for two years.
US: Have you been to Beaver Mountain yet.
Hutchings: No, not yet, we’re planning on it though. We used to go to Solitude, it’s in Utah Valley. It’s pretty good.
US: So what’s your take on the whole skier/snowboarder rivalry?
Hutchings: I don’t really care. It looks more difficult to me so I respect them. I having tried, I’ve seen them fall too many times for that.
US: What was you opinion of the Howl?
Hutchings: I actually didn’t go, I went to the Scream. It was awesome. I actually got on the front page of the Statesman. My friend Steve and I we dressed up. I was Princess Leia and he was Obi-wan.
US: Describe yourself in five words.
Hutchings: Friendly, Disney fanatic and nice person.
US: Fanatic is a strong word, why use fanatic?
Hutchings: I have a season pass to Disneyland. I actually just got back yesterday. I’ve been four times this year and 21 times to either Disneyland or Disneyworld.
US: What’s your favorite part about Disneyland?
Hutchings: Just the way that you feel when you’re there.
US: What is your favorite movie?
Hutchings: “A Bug’s Life.” I love Flick, he’s my hero because he has the courage to keep going when everyone has turned their back on him.
US: So what’s your take one Pixar leaving Disney? Who’s side to you take?
Hutchings: I felt really bad about that. I feel Pixar was more in the right, I feel they sort of got cheated, but I still love Disney.
US: Are you a big Harry Potter fan?
Hutching: Not really, I enjoy reading the books, I’ve read them a couple of times but I have a friend who’s read them hundreds of times so I really can’t say I’m that into it.
US: What is your deepest fear in life?
Hutchings: I’m afraid of being lost. I hate getting lost. I got lost in Salt Lake City once in my car and it was not fun.
US: If you could live at anytime in history when would it be?
Hutchings: Probably in colonial times. I like studying the Revolutionary War and I think it would be cool to see it. Not see everyone die though.
US: What is your most embarrassing moment?
Hutchings: When I was in nith grade I was in a band concert and I was playing the gong. Right as I hit it on the last note the string broke and fell to the ground. The percussionists were the only ones standing so everybody could see me.
US: If you could have any super powers, what would they be?
Hutchings: I’d want to transfigure, like in Harry Potter. That way I could be any animal. I’d turn into a cat.
US: Do you have any pets?
Hutchings: I have a dog named Remy or Remington. He’s a year and half old. He’s a mutt but is mostly boxer. He’s really cute.
US: If you could have anything for Christmas, what would you want?
Hutchings: 20 lifetime-passes to Disneyland for me and all my friends. I just love it there so much.
US: What do you regret most in you life?
Hutchings: I wouldn’t want to hurt of my friends. Not that I’ve hurt them on purpose but I have unintentionally.
US: What is your pet peeve?
Hutching: I hate it when people leave the door open in the summer. It lets bugs in and I hate all the Box Elder bugs we have here. But it’s winter so they’re all dead now.
US: Did you play any sports growing up?
Hutchings: I play softball for six years. I played left field. We were city champs twice. We go to go a Buzz game, which was fun.
US: If money was no option and you could do anything for a living, what would you do?
Hutchings: Work at Disneyland. Probably at Indiana Jones or the Haunted Mansion or the Tower of Terror just because they have cool costumes.
US: What’s your opinion on poker being on ESPN?
Hutchings: My dad watches it all the time. I don’t understand it too much though.
US: What was your favorite childhood toy?
Hutchings: I had a favorite blanket. It was call the “dirty corner” blanket because I would pull it around by this one corner. It was a white blanket but this one corner was black.
US: What are your plans for Christmas?
Hutchings: I’m just going to go home and work at my father’s store. I sell appliances.
US: Sell me an appliance then.
Hutchings: Well if you’re looking for a washer you should really go with the deluxe, top of the line, which is a bit more expensive but that’s okay because it uses less water and energy so it’ll eventually pay for itself in a few years.
US: What would you do with an unlimited supply of monkeys?
Hutchings: I’d let my friend Steve have them. He’s obsessed with monkeys. He says the word all the time. It’d keep one for myself to keep on my shoulder.
Erika Hutchings, currently owns a season pass To Disneyland. She has been four times ths year, and went 21 times last year.
Hutchingson said if she could have anything for Christmas it would be more passes to Disneyland.