This is Hawa Sadat...with all the information.

By Jason McKenney ENGL 336.003

Meet Hawa Sadat.  A junior at Frostburg State University and a person who thinks about the world around her. Coming all the way from Hanover, Maryland, after attending Anne Arundel High School Hawa never intended on attended on being here in Frostburg. Her original choice was in the big apple at New York University. However, after a small mistake by her guidance counselor she couldn’t attend her freshman year there. She then chose Frostburg State University, and even though she’s had the opportunity to move on to NYU the surroundings here have kept her around. Majoring in political science and minoring in journalism, Hawa looks forward to giving out information, but not running for office. “Even though I’m in political science, I don’t want to be in politics” says Hawa. She continued saying that as young child “my focus was politics”, but that after seeing what has to be done to be a politician that it wasn’t for her. Now Hawa look forward to hitting the radio or newspapers to get her ideas out. As she looks to her inspirations and influences she cites Walter Cronkite, Christiane Amanpour, Anderson Cooper, and Stephen Colbert. She finds them all great at what they do for “letting the people decide” and for “really having guts.” Hawa doesn’t just look toward journalists as her inspirations. She finds former president John F. Kennedy as a big inspiration for being someone who “pushed the envelope.” Going into the personal life of Hawa we find she enjoys thrills, drama, and action in the films she watches citing “Inception”, “The Godfather”, and the Batman films of the 2000’s. She loves Christopher Nolan as a director finding him to be “very classy.” If there was one actor that Hawa would love to see in any movie that would be Killian Murphy. Hawa finds him to a really talented, versatile, and believable actor. Moving from movies to television, Hawa isn’t too big of a television watcher, limiting her time to “Pushing Daisies”, the news, and soccer. Other than that when there is time on Hawa’s hands she reads or heads to her friends. While she has good friends here in Frostburg, her two best friends, Rahima and Zulbykha, are at home in Hanover. Their friendship has lasted over 13 years and mainly because they connect so well that they “know exactly what I think” says Hawa. But what are friends without a family. Her mother is Russian and her father is Persian, which offers a beautiful family background. Her mother owns several daycares along with other people and her father is a Professor of Political Science, which Hawa admits may have had something to do with her major. She also has a 13-year-old brother, with whom she is best friends and a 16-year-old sister. Hawa says that she has no political affiliation. When asked what could be done to fix the problems with the country Hawa responded unity. Continuing by saying that “without unification, nothing can be healed.” When moving to the subject of music Hawa enjoys British-Indie Rock, citing The Bravery as her favorite band and their song “Song for Jacob” as one of her favorites. Looking to the future, Hawa intends to attend NYU for graduate school and then in sometime having a show on the BBC saying “I plan on living in London, if I can.” So there is Hawa Sadat, a woman with a plan.