A survey about your undergraduate college, provided by Krista Prokosch
Northland College: Ashland, Wisconsin. aka, Way up in on the shore of Lake Superior in the middle of nowhere.
When you first attended, where did you live?
Memorial Hall, the only three woman suite in the hall.
Who was/were your roommate(s)?
Marcy Hebenski and Michelle Oranowski
Do you still talk to them?
Unfortunately, no. They both transferred after freshman year…saw Marcy a few times since then, but not for years now.
Ever get in trouble in the dorms?
For being too loud.
Something you remember when you lived on campus?
My nose hairs freezing when I took my first step out of the dorm every morning because it was so dang cold!
First party attended?
The night before classes started freshman year over at the soccer house that was a year or two later condemned because the foundation was so deteriorated. My first beer out of a red plastic cup and the cops showed up!
Favorite place to go out to eat?
Country Kitchen had the best potato, bacon, egg skillet scramble thing ever…at any time of day or night. The Deep Water was the nice place to go though…after the Railhouse burned down. It’s all about the beer-cheese soup with the popcorn!!
Who had the best wings?
Oddly enough, I don’t think I had chicken wings once up there.
Did you go the library?
Oh yeah. I liked taking one of those big tables for myself and spreading all my stuff out.
Where did you buy your books?
The Chub
Ever attend a sporting event?
A million…and some I didn’t want to be at.
Have you ever spent the night on campus, not in a dorm?
No, don’t believe so. Came back really late, but that doesn’t count.
Favorite night to go out on, and where did you go?
Usually Friday night was the best for me, cause I could no nothing on Saturday and still have Sunday to do all the homework I had to do. We’d go so someone’s house for a party, to that nasty bar that Krista was talking about….it was some sad excuse for an Irish bar. They had good kamikazes and Frank or Sneides would always buy a round of them!
Where did you get coffee?
The Black Cat…first place I’ve ever had a taste for coffee, or a sugary excuse for coffee.
Favorite Year of Halloween?
Freshman year!! A huge party out at the farmhouse!
Ever have a job?
Oh campus jobs. I started out as a computer lab assistant freshman year and then switched over to being an earth science lab assistant. The latter was much better! Then Michelle talked me into becoming the men’s soccer manager. Then it was three years of washing men’s underwear, freezing my butt off at all the games and getting yelled at by coach…but made a ton of good friends! And then I did work at the local Dairy Queen on and off for two years.
What do you hate about your college?
I don’t think I hated anything about Northland. I really loved it. Ok, well I hated that it cost so much to attend. (And still do with every student loan payment!), and the student govenment...long story.
What did/do you love most about it?
I loved how small the school was. Only 700 students or less, I could walk from anywhere to anywhere else on campus in 10 minutes or less, small class sizes allowed me to ask all the questions I wanted, I got to know my professors pretty well, I got to know a large chunk of the students pretty well, we were right on the shores of Chequamegon Bay, so the sights were awesome and the swimming pretty good too (during those 2-3 months a year you dared get in the water!), it was just the best.
Where would you believe is the best location to live in?
I loved living in the ELLC (Environmental Living and Learning Center). The suites Krista and I shared were awesome, but I did like having the kitchen and livingroom we had in the apartment senior year when I lived with Krista, Sneids, Kane, Mike and Eric.
Year of graduation?
2003
Will you go back?
I’d love to if I can find the time and money.
How many parking tickets did you get there?
At least one, because I remember fighting it.
Finally, ever gotten arrested?
Nope. Alway be nice to the police.
