Christopher Donohue '09

Christopher Donohoe ’09,

Architecture, Art and Planning. St. Cloud, Fla.

If Cornell could have any alternative campus, where would you locate it?

Christopher: It would be a research station in Antarctica. It could also be a social experiment station, including social science research.

Would our mascot be penguins then?

Christopher: That’s almost too obvious. [pauses] White flamingoes.

Rumor has it that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen. Would you ever go for that?

Christopher: Yes, but I’d have to die within the next 10 years because I want to be remembered as thin and beautiful. And without a receding hairline. The receding hairline is a phenomenon we’re dealing with on a daily basis.

What’s the worst summer job you’ve ever had?

Christopher: Working at the Olive Garden. Worst experience of my life. I worked there for two months but the way I talk about it, it sounds like I spent years there.

The people were so rude. One time, a customer told me at the end of the meal that he liked me until I opened my mouth and that it was obvious, through our interactions, that I was going nowhere in life.

Any abbreviatons that you like?

Christopher: “Magnif” is a good one. I never say right, I say “righ”. “I’m making sense righhhhh?”

And “cray!” “That’s so cray!” I like to abbreviate to awkward spots. Always to vowels, not to consonants. It keeps people guessing, and that’s crucial. So, like, UPenn is UPennsylvay. O-m-g that’s so cray, righ? Never give them the full word.