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Eric is part of the student management team and helps with content development and marketing issues. Eric also contributes music reviews.
Where are you originally from and where do you live now?
I am originally from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, but now I live in Atlanta, Georgia.
Have a personal quote?
"It’s getting so much better all the time" - The Beatles
Pick one word to describe yourself and tell why it describes you so well.
Improved - I try to improve upon myself each day. I constantly get upgrades, and each day that I continue to live, I am a more advanced version of myself than I was the day before.
What do you like most about Student Savvy? (be honest)
I like the freedom that the staff is given, and the casual environment. Really, we’re all a bunch of good friends who happen to have a common goal, and we do our best to achieve said goal.
What is the best advice you've ever received?
Try not to get too stressed out by the little things in life. Every so often, take a step back and breathe. If you constantly worry about life, it’ll go right by, and you’ll miss it. I like to take a moment once a day, look outside, and breathe in the air. If you’re not at peace at least part of the time, life will be over before you know it, and you won’t have anything to show for it.
What is your best money saving secret/technique? (c'mon, everyone has at least one)
Just buy what you really want. Don't impulse buy. If there’s something you want, don't get it yet. Wait a couple days, and if you still really need it, or find yourself thinking about it, go out and get it. Half of the impulse buys we make, it turns out we got caught up in advertising and stop using it after a short period of time.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
In Hollywood, making movies. That, or a tri-county pie-eating contest.
What is your biggest pet peeve?
I HATE super competitive, egotistical people who can’t admit they’re wrong and are always trying to one-up you. I know it’s not an attractive quality, and nobody really likes these people, but I actually despise them. There is no need to try and impress me, and people who go through life so insecure that they have to make everyone think they’re god-like aren’t people I like to associate with. That, and pedestrians. I really hate pedestrians.
What is your greatest accomplishment?
Being editor-in-chief of my high school paper when we won the scholastic journalism press award for best paper in the nation. That was pretty sweet. That, and just being able to look at something I’ve written years ago and still be proud of it.
What is your greatest athletic achievement?
Cross Country!!! I’ve played pretty much every sport in some way, shape, or form, and that was by far the most physically trying activity I’ve ever participated in. The fact that I lettered makes it all the more worth-while.
What is your greatest fear?
I fear something bad will happen to someone close to me. I don’t care to further elaborate on what the bad thing is or who it is, because I wouldn’t want to jinx it, and that scares me even more. So let’s just leave it at that.
You have 2 hours to kill. What are you going to do?
Let’s just say it involves an ice pick, the internet and a certain chimpanzee named Suzy...
Ever had a brush with fame? Explain.
When I was seven I was at Nickelodeon studios in Orlando, Florida, and I was in the audience on the hit show, "What would you do," TV host extraordinaire Mark Summers came out before the cameras started rolling to greet the audience. As soon as I laid eyes on that ruggedly handsome man, I freaked out and started screaming at the top of my tiny lungs, "THAT’S MARK SUMMERS!! I KNOW HIM!!!" Having stopped to interview the person in front of me, he couldn’t ignore the screaming of this crazed boy several feet away, so he totally snubbed that person to come talk to me. Our conversation basically consisted of "What’s your name?" "Eric." "Where are you from?" "Cherry Hill, New Jersey." And that’s pretty much that. But it was wicked cool, I gotta tell ya.
If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you choose?
Right now? I would go to Greece. Always thought that’d be a cool place to travel. But I’d love to go to Antarctica at some point and find out just what is going on down there.
Name one person you'd most like to meet and why.
I would love to sit down and pick Bono’s brain. I think there’s gotta be something going on up there that the rest of us don’t have, and are definitely missing out on. He’s an inspiration to me in his passion, his vision, and eccentricities. I’d love to meet him.
Which celebrity or public figure do you most resemble?
Brad Pitt. Seriously, I’ve heard I look like the guy from Prime (Bryan Greenberg). I kind of take that as an insult, though, since I like to think I have an original look (although I hear there’s no denying that I’m a spitting image of my dad). Personality-wise, I’ve heard a lot of people. It always seems I remind someone of someone else, so there isn’t just one. But the best compliment you can give me is telling me that I’m one of a kind.
You're stuck on a deserted island. What is one possession you couldn't live without?
I’d probably have to go with my ocean liner on this one.
Ever do something wrong or out of the ordinary? Make a confession and be honest.
All of my confessions would probably get me arrested by a court of law (sexual deviance is considered a misdemeanor, right?) so I’ll just cite the time one of my buddies was caught doing a certain illegal activity in his dorm room and was forced to jump out the window with friends in order to evade campus police. And we were never caught... whoops!
Did you ever do something as a child that you look back on now and say, 'Wow, I'm lucky to even be alive after that!'?
There was the time my dad and I got caught in a nasty rip-tide in the Atlantic Ocean. To this day, he swears that if there weren’t people a couple feet away (in the safe water where the current couldn’t get them) who could pull us out, one of us probably wouldn’t be alive.
Name one thing you wish you could do/have.
I wish I could channel my creativity energy whenever I felt like it. And physically, I do actually "wish I was a little bit taller." But I don’t really care that much about being a baller.
What's the best product you use that most people don't know about?
NINTENDO 64. It’s not that people don’t know about it, it’s that they think the fun lies in all these fancy shmancy new systems. Honestly, the most fun I could ever have alone would be spent playing 64. Well, there’s another kind of fun I could have alone, but that doesn’t really require a product, per say...
If you could go back in time and witness one event in history, what would you go back and see?
I would want to see what exactly happened with this whole Jesus/crucifixion/birth of Christianity business. I feel like it’s all anyone ever talks about. Did it happen the way the Bible says it did? Did it happen the way historians say it did? Did it happen the way Mel Gibson says it did? I’d really like to know.
What's the strangest thing you've ever seen?
Snakes on a Plane
How do you define success?
Success is when you wake up in the morning and are truly happy with your state of life.
What is your favorite sport and favorite team?
If you’d count running as a sport, then I’d say that. If you wouldn’t -- I’d have to go with handball -- so much fun. My favorite team would probably be the Philadelphia Eagles or the Phillies, but they’ve broken my heart so many times over the years, it’s almost not worth it to me to follow them too closely.
What is your favorite movie ever and why?
American Beauty. It truly is a beautiful, eloquent film with so much to offer. People see it as a downer -- they think the ending (and I won’t give it away) is depressing. I see it as one of the sincerest, uplifting things on the planet.
What is your best investment to date? (doesn't have to be finance-related)
In the fall of 2001 I thought to myself, "maybe I’ll get involved in my school paper." It’s all gone up from there. I don’t forget where I started from, and I never will.
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