IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONS CHERYL STEVENS ’10 and TANI BROWN ’10 — CO-CAPTAINS of the BEST WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM in PROGRAM HISTORY — SURF, SWAG, AND LIVE THE DREAM
Name: Cheryl Stevens / Tani Brown
Age: 22 / 21
Major: History / Religion
Hometown: Canyon Country, CA / Los Angeles, CA
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Cottage, Mathey, Women’s Basketball Team / Cottage
Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
STEVENS: Carlton Banks. Most of my dance moves are inspired in some way or another by him.
BROWN: My girl Meesh, a.k.a. Michelle Obama.
What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
S: Frist pizza at 3:30 AM post-the Street is pretty hard to beat.
B: Every Wednesday at Cottage… Member’s Night baby! Steak and a chocolate fountain for dessert.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
S: Now that my thesis is in, I LIVE THE DREAM.
B: I surf and I swag.
What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
S: Watching the history channel.
B: I could eat butter lovers microwave popcorn all day.
What’s the last student performance you saw?
S: Women’s Lacrosse vs. Dartmouth in a double overtime buzzer beater. It was awesome.
B: BAC Dance, I love watching Grace Cineas shake it.
Do you know all the words to Old Nassau?
S: Absolutely not.
B: I don’t know one word in Old Nassau… my bad.
The hand gestures to Old Nassau: creepy or awesome?
S: I don’t know them, but I can only imagine that they are creepily awesome.
B: Awesome?
What do you hate most about Princeton?
S: That it’s making me leave and forcing me into the real world. Oh, and grade deflation is pretty bad too.
B: When I wave at someone and they pretend like we didn’t just have a full semester of classes together. COME ON NOW PEOPLE
What’s your drink?
S: Anything with orange juice.
B: Hypnotiq, Alize, or anything Notorious B.I.G. would approve.
What’s hanging above your desk and/or bed?
S: A “thug life” chain and a love letter from senior football stud Jeff Jackson.
B: A picture of my team and a picture of my family.
Where do you do your best thinking?
S: Laying in bed.
B: When I go running.
When’s bedtime?
S: When the DJ goes off at Cottage.
B: When I feel myself getting ty ty
What do you think of Connor Diemand-Yauman?
S: I feel like his name is everywhere I turn. He seems to have done a great job.
B: He’s got a great smile, I’d date that.
What do you think of Dean Malkiel?
S: I don’t know enough about her to answer that.
B: Soo Dooopppppe.
Where is the best place on campus?
S: The Mathey courtyard, the backyard of Cottage, and East Pyne.
B: East Pyne
Where is the worst place on campus?
S: My carrel and/or Jadwin Gym on the day of the pre-season run test.
B: Anyplace where I have to study for over 10 hours.
Who is your mortal enemy?
S: Life is too short for enemies.
B: Four Loko Energy Drinks
When’s the last time you used cash?
S: To buy a coffee at Frist because I forgot my prox.
B: Last night to get Bent Spoon in Frist.
In 25 years, I will be…
S: Happy… and potentially running the world along with Tan of CheTan. If you don’t know, you probably should.
B: Hopefully happy and healthy.
Where do you go to study alone?
S: Firestone C-floor.
B: My room, a.k.a. the Boom Tomb.
What makes someone a Princetonian?
S: Bleeding orange and black.
B: They are good at what they love, and love what they do.
(inspired by NYMag.com’s Daily Intel blog)
i love you tani aka meesh.