CAP PRESIDENT ALEC EGAN SPENDS HIS DAYS RUNNING INTO THINGS, WISHES PRINCETON HAD MORE FAST FOOD, LIKED HIS JUNIOR SEMINAR, AND MIGHT END UP IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Name: Alec C. Egan
Hometown: Abilene, Texas
Major: History
Club and Residential College Affiliation: The Illustrious Cap and Gown Club and The Woodrow Wilson College of Destiny
What did you do this past summer? Bench, Squat, Clean.
Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? Dr. Jon Osterman
What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Lamb BLT and an Oatmeal Cookie Stout from Triumph
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day? Run head first into things, sometimes school work, sometimes food, sometimes doors, but mostly people.
Favorite spot in Cap? Kegerator
What club did you think you’d be in as a freshman and why? Cottage
What is your greatest guilty pleasure? Restaurant Impossible
If you could change one thing about Princeton, what would it be? Proximity to fast food
What’s hanging above your desk and/or bed? Texas Flag
What is your biggest fear? Global shortage of steak
Favorite class you’ve taken? Toss up between SOC 250: Western Way of War and HIS 400: Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the Special Relationship
What’s your drink? Whiskey-Dr. Pepper
What’s your personal anthem? Fat-Bottomed Girls
Who is your mortal enemy? Walter Snook
When’s bedtime? I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Best memory in your club? Kitchen Parties
Worst memory in your club? Well if I remembered it, it wouldn’t be the worst
Which club do you frequent the most besides your own? Cottage, Cloister and Cannon.
In 25 years, you will be… either in the white house or a white castle
What makes someone a Cap member? Food obsession, conversation proliferation, and love of relaxation
What makes someone a Princetonian? “We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us” – Winston Churchill