Name: Molly Landis
Class Year: 2027
Hometown: Brooklyn, CT
Major: English and Peace & Conflict Studies Double Major
Campus Activities: Ultimate Frisbee Captain, Club Figure Skating, Spire Co-Social Media Manager, Senior Admissions Fellow, Study Abroad Student Worker, Chair of English Student Advisory Committee, Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society, English Honors Program
Favorite Movie: Dead Poet’s Society or 10 Things I Hate About You
Favorite Song: “Rent” from the musical Rent (I am an underground theater kid)
Favorite color: PURPLE
Favorite sports team: The Purple Heys club ultimate frisbee team
Favorite class taken at Holy Cross: Every English class ever (especially Shakespeare, the Brontë Seminar, American Realism, Modern American Novel, and also my Montserrat)
Item on HC Bucket List: Get into the exorcism room
Embarrassing HC Moment: iykyk
Bragging Rights: I have been to 21 countries!
Words to live by: Experiences over things every time
One thing you would change at HC: Make it more ADA accessible! (I once had to give a wheelchair tour and it made me realize how hard it is to get around this campus)
Favorite TV Show: Criminal Minds
Favorite Book: The Book Thief or The Picture of Dorian Gray or Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow or literally so many other novels (I can’t pick one)
Favorite Kimball meal: gluten free pasta bowls (I’m not gluten free, but they’re so good)
Favorite Cool Beans Drink: The coffee & cream milkshake
Favorite spot on campus: Rodino Library
Favorite off-campus restaurant: Bocado or Golden Wok
Guilty Pleasure: Seltzer waters from the lobby shop or popcorn with lots of flavoring and parmesan cheese
Some small things that make your day better: Seeing my boyfriend in between classes and jobs!
First thing you do when you wake up: Put my contacts in because I am blind as a bat and can’t see without them
Last thing you do before going to bed: Obsessively check my alarm and ringer volume a million times because I once almost slept through a class sophomore year
Favorite place you have traveled to: Cape Town, South Africa!!! (I studied abroad there for an entire semester and it was the best four months ever!)
Something you look forward to when you go home: Hanging out with my parents and siblings
Post-Graduation Plans: Don’t ask, I don’t want to think about leaving
Favorite memory at HC: Too many to choose from, but getting into English Honors was a huge moment hehe! Also the Lobster Pot frisbee tournament I played in my sophomore year!
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