1. I love the words tambourine, horizon, turquoise, voyage, exegesis, hermeneutics, enliven, graffiti, perpendicular, scribble, colloquy, and aesthetics. They are wonderful words, full of colors and texture and most of all meaning.

2. I write a check box on my to-do lists for writing my next day’s to-do list. I feel unproductive until my last box is checked.

3. I’ve always wanted to go spelunking (the exploration of caves) but I’m too scared I’ll chicken out.

4. I’m seriously thinking about participating in the LA marathon by my senior year of college. It’s a long shot, but hey, we’ll see. On that note, I’m currently a work-out fiend and couldn’t imagine another thing I would rather be doing than be at the gym.

5. Orion is by far my favorite constellation. Cassiopeia is a favorite too. Scorpion and Galaxy M16 are also two other starry wonders I love.

6. I absolutely love science (except for botany) and absolutely despise math.

7. I have never in my memory lost a game of Clue.

8. I could spend days making collages.

9. I’m pretty convinced at this point every single sin originates from us wanting to do God’s job, and that every relationship of any kind must, if it is halfway healthy, be founded on respect.

10. I like to eat cupcakes from the bottom up, so the frosting is like a reward.

11. I read Descartes, Plato, Aquinas, Nietzsche, and others…. for fun and relaxation.

12. I’m pretty sure I couldn’t survive without post-its.

13. I cannot pronounce the word post-it. I’ve tried for over 3 years with no avail. It comes out sounding something like po-stick.

14. I have never seen a disney princess movie.

15. I like smart water, I think it tastes better, but it probably isn’t any different.

16. I can’t remember what people look like for more than a few minutes (seriously… it’s sad), so I surround myself with pictures of people I don’t see often so I can remember.

17. I love make-up. I do not allow myself to go into Sephora unless I have surplus money of at least 100 dollars, which I never do. I also used to love Sharper Image, but they are gone, and I am not really sad, although I can’t get a free massage while at the mall anymore.

18. I’d rather be reading than watching a movie. I have a very short attention span for visual storytelling, and would much rather make a movie of the book in my head while reading it.

19. I seem to always have really close friend groups in sets of 3 + me.

20. My car’s name is Zoey. She is my baby and I love her to pieces.

21. I like to be friends with my professors and teachers. I like to get to know them, get lunch with them, talk to them like the real live people they are. It’s not because I want to kiss-up, or that I’m a brown noser. I just love to learn from people older and more educated with me, and what better resource than the people we pass by and sit in front of everyday.

22. I love church. I love everything about it. I don’t like everything the Church stands for, but I love being part of a community that is bigger than myself, talking about our God who is bigger than all of us could ever imagine.

23. There are times when playing dumb is the absolute best strategy to learning something. Most of the time is just annoying.

24. I love my family. We aren’t the typical American fam-bam, but we are the Kippses and while we are dysfunctional beyond belief, it all makes sense to us. I miss my sisters a lot and am sooo proud of them and hope that I might some day be as brilliant as they both are. These past few months I’ve discovered an interesting fact: my parents actually are right about most things. Who would have thought?! My respect for both of my parents grows exponentially as the days go by without them by my side, and I look forward to every time I get to talk to my mom, even if it is just for a few seconds in between classes.

25. 3 years ago, I promised my grandma who recently passed away that I would return to poland for her. I do not make promises I don’t keep, and if it is the last thing I do, I will go to Poland and find where we are from. I take it as an incredible compliment when people say that I look like a splitting image of her when she was my age.

26. I am tone-deaf beyond belief. It is sad, really.

27. If I could go anywhere in history, just to watch and not change anything, I think I would go to the Globe Theatre and see the original Hamlet. Or be with the Apollo 13 (yes, 13) astronauts while they were figuring out how to get home.

28. I absolutely love inside jokes. Not to be exclusive, just because they make me incredibly happy. With some of my friends, all we have to say is one word (salty) and still, years later, we are cracking up.

29. I’ll admit that I like to drive, and drive fast. If I could do anything for a day and not die in the process, I would take a lotus to the autobahn and drive until I couldn’t feel my feet any longer.

30. I like swings. I like to swing. I like pictures of swings. I like the metaphor of swinging. I really really like swings.