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September 12, 2006
Found in the Crowd
Linda Sjostrom/Oracle: So, you’re working at the College Dems booth today?
Emily Brake: That is true. I am working at the College Dems booth.
O: Are you pretty active in politics?
EB: I have been since the beginning of high school. I’m from South Dakota, so I was really the minority in South Dakota working for Democrats in that conservative state. I’m also in a class about electoral politics, so it should all tie in really well and I should be really politically involved hopefully.
O: So is your major political science?
EB: Um.. technically it is, but we’ll see what happens.
O: What year are you in?
EB: I’m a sophomore. And... Do you want to know anything else, or should I just talk more?
O: Yeah! You can just talk.
EB: Hmm, this is funny. Okay, this summer I worked at a camp and I lived in tree houses and went canoeing and biking with children all summer. That was a lot of fun. That’s kinda different about me. I slept in there, no electricity, no water, no... so yeah, we lived in a tree house. It was pretty sweet.
O: How long were you living in the tree house?
EB: All summer. [Laughs.] We could go take showers and stuff at other places, but yeah. In the trees. It was pretty nice. That was my first time I’ve done it, so it’s kind of hard to be back in society and live in a small dorm room when I used to have the whole forest to myself.
O: How old were the children?
EB: It was usually 4th- through 6th-gradersčso right before middle school so they were all crazy and they all had crazy hormones, so it was pretty dramatic. Especially since they were in a tree house. It was good.
O: Did you run into any big problems? People falling out of tree houses, or...?
EB: No, there weren’t any major injuries, thankfully. Yeah, I didn’t have to do any first aid or anything. Normal, typical, camp counselor problems like kids falling out of canoes and things like that, but nothing serious.
O: Would you do it again?
EB: I don’t know. It didn’t pay very well at all, so now being back at Hamline and buying books, I’m like, “Oh... maybe that wasn’t the best choice.” But I mean it was a good experience, so I don’t know. Next year is a long way away.
O: Any messages to Hamline?
EB: I think that when it comes to a small liberal arts college it can be easy to not be involved, and I think it’s important to involve yourself. Hamline has a reputation for being a really active, involved campus, but I’ve found that’s not necessarily true. I’m guilty of it too, but I hope that this year there’ll be more activities going on.
Posted by dwright at September 12, 2006 03:37 PM
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