Ask an Honors Student
An avid tea drinker who balances scientific inquiry with creative writing, Jacob pauses a moment beside Fisher Fountain in Red Square.
- Jacob Herman
- Hometown: Kennewick, WA
- Major: Cellular and Molecular
Biology/Chemistry - Ask Jacob at:
hermanj7@cc.wwu.edu
- What's best about Honors?
- The close community it creates among such diverse people. I have met actors, knitters, fencers, humanitarians, video gamers, athletes, musicians, comic book geeks, skaters, artists, hikers, and sailors all through the honors program.
- Your first Western "WOW" moment?
- Seeing an image from my team's tunneling scanning microscope in Honors Chemistry. The first week of classes they told us by the end of the year we would independently design and construct a microscope that could image molecules and in spring quarter we succeeded in doing so!
- Outside the classroom?
- Every time I went to the library my freshman year I could find some new room or feature or section. There is the video collection, the microfilms, government documents, years and years of obscure magazines, the reading room and all the hidden stairways.
- What is the best book you've read lately?
- I have owned Brave New World for two years now and this summer finally got around to reading it. Not only was it a hopeless and possibly accurate dystopian view of the future but also Huxley’s literary style was a timeless blend of modern and classical literature.
- What is your favorite memory of WWU?
- Spring quarter of freshman year two friends and I spent about three hours on Sundays laying in bed and listening to music. No matter how much homework or what plans we had that was always there as a bit of stress relief.