Name: Mariella DeRosa
Age: 21
Major: Biology, minor in Botany
Occupation (if any): Waitress at Pink Flamingo Diner, sometimes a bartender
Member of Greek House? (If so, which one): Member of MEH which is no longer a Greek House. Giggles and says “Since we are no longer Greek, we are now a Roman Orgy.”
University Related Activities: Showing up for classes sporadically, leaving graffiti on campus; making professors laugh, and doing naughty things in the Dean’s office.
Hobbies: Riding a motorcycle fast enough to catch the attention of the police, tending to homegrown weed and attempting to create strains, playing her Telecaster loudly, swimming, dancing, singing, and making noise!
Likes: Music, parties, weed, mushrooms, psychedelics, getting wrecked, cracking jokes and making people laugh, skating, having good friends, chill people, warm people, kind people, loyal people, men, doing silly things or crazy things with her MEH brothers and sisters, taking risks, spending a night in jail and laughing about it, spending a night on the beach, diving into the sea, being naked, buying clothes that are different or crazy, reading philosophers on the nature of reality, and my old Catholic School uniform.
Dislikes: Grumpy police, grumpy people, mean people, and rules and regulations.
Favorite Music: Alternative; Punk; Post Punk; EDM; very loud music. I also love opera and folk music.
Q: What made you decide to go to Woodcrest?
A: Wanted to get a good education and the University has fine professors and facilities. Wanted to party and test my limits and this seemed like the place to do that too!
Q: What is the one thing that you love about Woodcrest?
A: I love that I have made very good friends at Woodcrest. It is the people you are with who make life wonderful. At Woodcrest I have been lucky and have met some wonderful people.
Q: What would you say has been your biggest accomplishment so far at Woodcrest?
A: Not getting expelled and having some fun moments in classes when engaged in the material, and making some very good friends.
Q: What would you consider your most embarrassing moment at Woodcrest?
A: When Dean Lovencraft remarked in a speech, albeit vaguely, about an incident that involved me in his office!
Q: What is the one thing that you think people will remember you for in Woodcrest?
A: I think, or at least I hope that they would remember me as being a good friend and someone who was good fun to be around, and that I made them feel loved and that they mattered.