True Life: I'm Erin Anderberg

I'm Erin, junior in Speech and Hearing Science. I currently live in Raleigh, North Carolina, 2 hours from the beach and 2 hours from the mountains which is absolutely perfect. Until 8th grade, however, I lived in Westchester, Illinois which is a suburb right outside of Chicago. I missed it so much after I moved that I decided to come back to Illinois for college.

I want to be a speech pathologist after I graduate and work in a hospital or a rehabilitation center with stroke victims. People always just assume I'm going to be helping preschoolers with lisps but there is actually a lot more to it. So for anybody out there without a major/interested/bored, go here.

I am currently roommates with my best friend since I was 3 years old (who just happens to be the one you will probably find me sitting next to in this class). I have 2 other roommates and I must say that our apartment is a pretty happening place.

Here at school I work at the Athletic Ticket Office and sell all the tickets to Illinois sporting events. So for any die hard basketball or football fans, make sure to check out this website! I actually was able to work the Rose Bowl game last year out in Pasadena, CA which was one of the coolest experiences ever.

Outside of school I love to travel. I took 4 years of Latin in high school and my junior year I went with my Latin club to Italy and Greece. I am amazed by different cultures and if I had the money, you would not be able to keep me in one place for very long.

I'm also a huge fan of CourtTV. I could lay on the couch all day and watch Forensic Files or The Investigators if possible. I probably sound like a huge bum right about now because I'm the girl who also said I'm addicted to facebook when we had to introduce ourselves, but I promise I do other things.

I actually finished my first marathon back in October. I ran cross country and track back in high school so I have a bit of a running background but I didn't really train much. I plan on doing more and actually training next time around just to push myself and see how well I can do.

My favorite color is red. I probably look really lame carrying around my red coffee mug with my red phone and my red notebook while listening to my Ipod with my red headphones but hey, it's a great color.

I love to snowboard. I want to go to grad school out in Colorado so that I can get as much in as possible before it's time to enter the real world. I bought my own board about 5 years ago and surprise..it's red! My second time doing it was actually out in Montana, and let me tell you...even the bunny hills were terrifying. I was on my butt the whole trip but loved every second of it.

I'm a big scrapbooker. I haven't been able to do it as much as I would like since I've been in college but back in grade school I would have my mom wake me up early just to do another page before class. I was cool.

I have one tattoo. My best friend from North Carolina and I got the exact same one when we went to Canada together this summer. It's supposed to be a "tree of life" representing that life will always go on and it says "imagine" down the trunk, inspired by the one and only John Lennon. It was kind of an impulse decision but I tend to make those a lot.

I would eat an entire bowl of brownie batter over a "real meal" any day.





..because I'm the girl who choked on the crouton.