Today at Breck
Winter 2014
Questions 6/
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Melisa Wallack ’86: ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE 1
What’s on your iPod?
I honestly don’t have an iPod. 2
What’s one of the last books
you read?
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What advice would you give to
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If you could travel anywhere,
yourself 10 years ago?
where would you go?
Let go. Most of it won’t matter soon.
The South Pole. The solitude must be
10
What is the most important
beautiful. 18
Pet peeve?
Beyond the Hole in the Wall by
room in your home?
Sugata Mitra
Our kitchen. We spend all of our time
Today it’s lying. Yesterday it was my
there.
kid’s Legos left where I will step on
3
What’s your favorite time of year? Fall. I like the impending quiet of winter.
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What’s your favorite place on the
Breck campus? The science lab. I would spend time learning there again if I could. 12
Favorite comfort food?
Sushi 4
What’s the most thrilling/
13
If you had a theme song, what
adventurous thing you’ve ever done?
would it be?
Giving birth
Change by Blind Melon: “When life is
5
What’s your favorite Breck lunch?
I can’t remember! 6
Who is your personal hero
(and why)?
hard, you have to change.” 14
Favorite website?
Zerohedge.com 16
Three people, living or dead,
Matt Taibbi. Possibly journalism’s
you’d have over to dinner?
last hope.
Matt Taibbi, Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie
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Dream job?
I have my dream job. 8
Best decision?
Having my children.
Dimon and…Tyler Durden (I’m pretty sure he’s real.) I’d like to discuss our monetary system. 16
If you could read anyone’s mind,
whose would it be? Janet Yellen
them. Tomorrow it will be dirty dishes left in the sink. 19
Unfulfilled wish?
That I have ten kids 20
What keeps you up at night?
I just watched Black Fish, which reminds me that we live in a world where people do unimaginably cruel things for monetary gain.