Leslie Profile

(Practicing profiling on my roommate)

Leslie's days are punctuated by cereal.  She climbs from her bed each morning and eats three bowls. She does not change clothes, chat, or even check her emails first.  She has the sugary-to-plain ratio down pat, creating the best texture and left-over milk tastes. 

Then she chooses clothes based on whether she's meeting her friends-with-benefits for lunch that day.  If she is, she puts on a brightly colored shirt of minimal fabric, short shorts. She brushes shimmery powder across her eyelids, curls her lashes, straightens her hair.  If she isn't, she puts on gym clothes and scoops her hair into a ponytail without even brushing it.

She usually forgets one of three essential items: her OneCard, her keys, or her wallet.  She's purchased $40 worth of replacement student I.D.s throughout her time in college, and keeps the old ones for when she loses the new ones.  Sometimes she can play dumb when the card doesn't work, and the dining hall staff will let her in anyway.

She doesn't talk much during class.  During the boring ones, she doodles microscopic dancing penguins wearing bowties and cows with speech bubbles saying cow-related puns.  She will study the  material later though, and probably get an A on the test.  Sometimes she gets a B, and gets mad at herself for not paying better attention.


Her days are filled with fussing at people for not recycling (she's an EcoReps coordinator), helping people get into dental school (she's present of the dental fraternity, and also afraid of not getting into dental school), and worrying about the environment for her classes (she switched from a biology major to environmental studies because she hates chemistry).

But then comes home, sits on the futon, and eats three more bowls of cereal before bed.  She buys a new gallon of milk at least twice a week. But she never goes to bed hungry.