Student Spotlight Wednesday: Better Know a Ross Student

This is the first of 2011 and tenth weekly installment of our 149 138 part series, "Better Know a Ross Student". Every week on Wednesday we will be introducing another member of our fantastic class.

This week: Sharon!

Where are you from?

I'm from Cape Cod Massachusetts
 

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Wicked awesome. Our first Boston area spotlight. How did you end up at Ross?

I love the Caribbean and have always wanted to go to school here...no seriously though, I wasn't accepted at any of the state schools I applied to and ended up here.  But I think I'm better for it with the more intense curriculum, shorter program and the fact that my husband and I get to go to the same school and only be a semester apartment instead of a year or two apart or possibly different schools.
 

What do you like most about the veterinary profession?

That we can make prosthetic limbs for cows.
 

Favorite thing about St. Kitts?

It rains a lot.  I love rain and snow and since I can't have snow, I'll settle for an insane amount of rain! Oh I bet you miss that New England winter weather then, lets check in on our live Boston webcam:

Looks wicked awesome, you are really missing out by being down here. Do you have a least favorite thing about St. Kitts besides the lack of snow?

That it is getting more and more expensive to live here with every passing day (Vat tax, increase in electricity, etc)
 

But I thought living in Massachusetts would have prepared you for VAT here. What do you miss most about home? Besides the taxes I mean.

My nieces and nephews, they are growing so fast and I feel like I'm missing it all
 

All I know about Boston area food is baked beans or Dunkin Donuts. Best flavor of Dunkin Donuts?

I don't drink coffee, but I love their white hot chocolate!
 

Also delicious. When served with donuts. Based on "The Perfect Storm", "The Departed", and "The Town", you are either a fisherman, bank robber, or police officer.
Being from Mass. I have to be one of those right? I guess I'd choose police officer because I'd choose Leornardo DiCaprio (The Departed) over Ben Affleck (The Town)

How can you choose Leo over Jon Hamm in "The Town"? Clearly he is the most attractive man ever, especially when armed with a shotgun(see above). Don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise because they are wrong. Related question: How wicked awesome is the clam chowder in New England?

Honestly, I'm not a big fan of New England Clam Chowder because it has bacon in it, but Ty and I make a really wicked awesome homemade chowder and serve it in a bread bowl and it is incredible!  Man, I miss winter...

I will admit that the chowder might make a Northeast winter bearable. What is your biggest personality flaw?

I can be a control freak...but hey I just like the way I do things better then the way others do...lol
 

I suppose when you are as wicked awesome as you are, others can't really measure up sometimes. What is the worst job you ever had?

When I was 13 I bussed tables at a local restaurant and never got paid because the owner was a con artist and kept making excuses to the staff about where the pay checks were and one day he just closed the restaurant and disappeared.

Ooooh, he must have been one of those bank robber types. He is probably hanging out at the local Irish flower shop but I wouldn't advise going after him for your money. Who did you idolize while growing up and why?

Haha this is sort of embarrassing, but I idolized Michael Jordan.  I loved basketball and I used to wish that he was my dad.  Don't make fun of me Brandon or I'll kick your butt.

You mean that baseball player I have heard so much about? I can't think of a better role model for a young, white, Irish girl from Boston (Seriously, not even Kevin McHale or Larry Bird??????????). What's the best thing about your husband (and remember that we have a family audience...)?

Well when it comes to my husband my mind is always in the gutter....I like how good he is with a tape deck (he fixed the tape deck in her neighbors car last week)...lol...no but really, I love his intelligence, he challenges me and keeps me on my toes. He's an amazing person and always supports me no matter what. Oh and he has an awesome beard.
 

With a beard that wicked awesome he is definitely a fisherman. Favorite activity you did over Christmas break?

Snowshoeing! I seriously love winter and Love Love LOVE snow!

Well lets check back with our Boston-cam....ugh. Snowshoeing can't possibly be that fun. What is a guilty pleasure you cant live without?

Stupid teenage TV shows!! I love ABCfamily and CWtv...Degrassi TNG is my all time fave tho!
 

So much teenage angst, but I think we all have to thank Degrassi for what they did for us during our more formative years. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?

I see myself working in a small mixed practice with a couple of kids, the same wonderful husband, and just enjoying life because I will have worked so hard to get there : )

Sounds like a wicked awesome happy ending.

Thanks Sharon for contributing this week, and let me remind everybody on island that T-shirts are still for sale for another week and a half. Check the bulletin boards at the back of your classrooms!