Resident of the Week

Name: Shelby Bennett
Hometown: Galva, IA
Major: Pre-pharmacy
Dream career: Hospital pharmacist with a specialty in compounding
Organizations you are involved with on campus: Pep Band, APO, Alpha Phi
Favorite thing to do in Omaha: go to the zoo!
Favorite place to eat in Omaha: Spaghetti Works
Best thing about Heider: apartment set-up actually makes dorm life feel like home
If you could be any character from any movie, who would you be and why?
any Disney princess… fairy tale love story AND the ability to be normal when you break out in song in public.

Resident of the Week

Name: Josie Bungert

Hometown: Lakeville, Minnesota

Major: Journalism and English, minor in Dance

Dream career: Editor-in-Chief at the New York Times

Organizations you are involved with on campus: News Editor at the Creightonian, Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Creighton Dance Company

Favorite thing to do in Omaha: Go to the Old Market, especially the candy store.

Favorite place to eat in Omaha: There are so many great places, but my favorite place is probably Ingredient.

Best thing about Heider: The balconies. So relaxing to just sit out there. The major thing I will miss about Heider is our view!!

If your life had a soundtrack, what songs would it include?
Float On by Modest Mouse
Fix You by Coldplay
When You Were Young by the Killers
Symphony by Kid Cudi
Shake it Off by Florence + The Machine
Go Do by Jonsi

Resident of the Week

Name: Emilee McConkey

Hometown: Rapid City, SD

Major: Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing

Dream career: Owning my own cupcake shop

Organizations you are involved with on campus: Kappa Kappa Gamma and Partnership for Kids

Favorite thing to do in Omaha: Shop!

Favorite place to eat in Omaha: Vincenzo’s

Best thing about Heider: The community that we have:

What celebrity would you like to spend a day with and why? I would love to spend the day with Gerard Butler.  Not only is he fun to look at, but his accent isn’t hard on the ears

Resident of the Week

Name: Jessa Diebel

Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota

Major: Graphic Design and Psychology

Dream career: Writer for Saturday Night Live

Organizations you are involved with on campus: Theta Phi Alpha

Favorite thing to do in Omaha: I love to go to Film Streams. First Monday of every month they show free movies to students!

Favorite place to eat in Omaha: I JUST tried Cali Taco and I think I am in love. I recommend it to everyone who has not had a chance to try it yet.

Best thing about Heider: The balcony!

What celebrity would you like to spend a day with and why? Tina Fey. All day. That woman is my idol.

Resident of the Week

Name: Kalynn Borer

Hometown: Norfolk, NE

Major: Biology

Dream career: Oncology Physician

Organizations you are involved with on campus: Pi Beta Phi, Best Buddies, Relay for Life

Favorite thing to do in Omaha: I like to visit new places I have never been to before.

Favorite place to eat in Omaha: One of my favorite places to eat is Kobe’s Japanese Steakhouse, but the most frequent places I eat are Village Inn and Buffalo Wild Wings.

Best thing about Heider: The kitchens and balconies as well as more freedom than we were given in the freshman dorms.

If your life had a soundtrack, what songs would it include?
Happiness – The Fray, Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) – Lostprophets, Flawz – Caitlin Crosby, Hold Us Together – Matt Maher, When the Stars Go Blue – Tim McGraw, Toes – Zac Brown Band, Pour Some Sugar On Me – Def Leppard

Resident of the Week

Name: Peter Ganz

Hometown: Coeur d’Alene, ID (In alignment with unpopular belief, this is not where Napolean Dynamite was filmed)

Major: Political Science

Dream career: United States Senator

Organizations you are involved with on campus: An unidentified, currently suspended greek organization (rhymes with bike), College Republicans, Creighton Crazies

Favorite thing to do in Omaha: Hang out in North Omaha with my “crew” (I’ve now earned 3 eyebrow stripes. Working my way up to territory manager)

What songs would the soundtrack to your life include? Probably the soundtrack to the broadway musical Rent. It is very applicable to the things I have struggled with in my life before moving to Omaha. That or Revolution 9.

Resident of the Week

Name: Amanda DeNatale

Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri

Major: Biology

Dream career: Neurosurgeon/ Neurologist

Organizations you are involved with on campus: Tri Delta, Pre-Med Society, EMS Club

Favorite thing to do in Omaha: Go to the Zoo

Favorite place to eat in Omaha: Vivace

Best thing about Heider: Big windows & views of Omaha!

What celebrity would you like to spend a day with and why?

If I could spend a day with any celebrity I would pick the actors who play the Weasley twins in Harry Potter because they seem like they would make the day a lot of fun.