Ask a New Yorker: Where are you from?
Rose: I’m from Rhinebeck, New York
Ask a New Yorker: What year are you in at NYU?
Rose: I am a freshman.
Ask a New Yorker: What other schools did you apply to?
Rose: I wasn’t going to go anywhere else. So I only applied here.
Ask a New Yorker: What were you, the valedictorian?
Rose: I was, but it wasn’t much of an accomplishment because my class only had 60 people in it.
Ask a New Yorker: SAT scores?
Rose: 2140
Ask a New Yorker: So how is it going?
Rose: It’s only been a week. It’s pretty fun. It’s not like going to college, which I like. I didn’t really want to go to college. So this is a good exchange.
Ask a New Yorker: Any ideas for your major?
Rose: I want to get paid for travel somehow. So I’m going to study photography, language and international relations. I’m in the school of individualized study within NYU called Gallatin where you create your own concentrations and course of study. I’m sure my concentration is going to change as my cultural lexicon expands. Every class I take is going to push me into a different direction. So right now what I want to do could be completely different. I just know in my heart that I don’t want to stay on one place.
Ask a New Yorker: What’s Rhinebeck famous for?
Rose: One stop light. That’s pretty much it. It’s a tiny town. It’s a weekender town. Annie Leibovitz lives there. It’s tiny. It’s near Woodstock.
Ask a New Yorker: How would you describe the student body at NYU?
Rose: It’s incredibly diverse. You find a lot of different people. Everyone has their own distinct style. Most of the people are really intelligent. You can find any type of person here I’d say.
Ask a New Yorker: What’s your housing like? Off campus, sorority?
Rose: I would never join a sorority. I live in a dorm. I’m going to move off campus hopefully next year, as soon as possible.
Ask a New Yorker: What’s the best bar in the village?
Rose: Well I don’t know, but you can definitely go sake bombing cheap if you want to drink out of cork containers.
Ask a New Yorker: You are Uberchic. Dig your skull and cross bones suspenders.
Rose: It’s really the only choice if you want to be uberchic. I’ve never been called uber anything, so I guess uberchic works, its fun.
Ask a New Yorker: Nice pendant around your neck. Where did you get it?
Rose: It’s from Thailand two years ago. I lived in a mountain village for three months. We built small houses and a school.
Ask a New Yorker: Rose, is that a family name?
Rose: My real name is actually Waverly but people think I’m named after the street, so I go by Rose.
Ask a New Yorker: What pets did you have growing up? I had a billy goat, gerbils, guinea pigs, fish, dogs, cats, rabbits, and a boa constrictor.
Rose: I had three dogs but one of them ate all of our roses so we gave him away. I had a cat which I still have, Daisy. She’s really cool.
Ask a New Yorker: Do you watch Seinfeld?
Rose: No, I don’t watch television.
Ask a New Yorker: Hmmm, Our New Yorker of the Month doesn’t watch TV either. What are you reading?
Rose: Right now I’m reading my text books. I’m reading an article by Thomas Friedman; The World is Flat, for my World Globalization course. It’s interesting, although I don’t agree with him. He believes that the entire world has emerged into globalization but neglects to mention Africa, which kind of bothers me. You know it probably takes a lot of guts to just walk up to some random person in the park and ask for an interview.
Ask a New Yorker: I’m a gutsy guy. Who do people say you look like?
Rose: People have said that I look like Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Ask a New Yorker: I can see that. Rose I wish you the best in everything you do.
