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OCTOBER 3, 2012
What do flying, marriage and Greek Life
have in common?
By Zach Bergson and Terra Molengraff
Name: Leslie Weisz
Age: 20
Hometown: Plymouth, Mich.
School and Year: LSA senior
Concentration: Biological Physics
Where do you like to hang out in Ann Arbor?
I spend most of my time on South U. But, I'm an outdoors-
y person so I like going to the Arb. I'll go rock climbing
every now and then. I play a lot of video games at my
house, but that's not really hanging out in Ann Arbor.
What kind of video games do you play?
"Call of Duty," it's my favorite. I'm still hooked to "Black
Ops," though everyone else has moved on. But I love "Call
of Duty." It's really corny; don't tell anyone.
Where do you live?
Greenwood. So yeah, that kind of defines me.
Are your shoes up on the wires on Greenwood?
No, I haven't had to put shoes up there yet. The rule is if
you ever party on Greenwood and you pass out, they'll take
off your shoes and throw them up there, so thankfully,
mine aren't up there.
You're in a sorority (Sigma Kappa), you played on the
varsity women's soccer team your freshman year and
you're a part of Air Force ROTC. How did you balance
all of these things with school?
I'm not even sure, looking back on it. It's a lot of planning.
I'm a listmaker, probably too excessively. Also, I'm a nine
to 10 hour sleeper. If I don't get that much sleep, my days
don't really work. It's all about efficiency. If I have to get
9 something done, I have to get it done, or there's no way I'll
ever get anything done.
What are you going to do in the Air Force after you
graduate?
When you're a senior, you put in a job application to the Air
Force. They evaluate thembased upon physical fitness, GPA,
how well you did when you went to boot camp. If you did
well on all of those things, you're going to get a job you want.
There are also specific jobs - the sexy jobs, like pilot or navi-
gator - that are separate and you have to apply to them. Last
year, I applied to be a pilot and got selected. I made it through
all of the security clearances and my flight physical. In May,
I'll be headed to flight training and that will be my job.
Do you have a specific plane that you want to fly?
I would love to fly an F-16, but it's hard to get those.
There's not a lot of positions and it's a very competitive
career field. I want to be a fighter, though, not a bomber.
But that B-52 flyover at the football game was pretty cool.
Do you know what you want to do after the Air Force,
or is that not on the radar yet?
The problem is that when you're in a normal ROTC pro-
gram, you only owe the Air Force four years of duty. But
as a pilot, since it costs so much time and money to train
someone, they up it to 10 years. It's a give and take. Going
into the career field of a pilot, I get to be a pilot, which is
awesome, but now I owe the Air Force 10 years of service.
You have been involved with three very distinct
groups on campus. What was it like to interacting
with such different organizations?
ROTC and the military are significantly different than the
girls in Sigma Kappa. To be honest, you have to be open
to new people and new ideas and new ways of thinking.
The way that the girls in my sorority lived their lives are
completely different from me. I.don't want to say that I
was an anomaly in our sorority, but as clich6 as it sounds,
they're wearing their Ugg boots and their tights, but that's
not who I am, but it's who they are. You have to take each
person for their personality and be open to who they are
instead of what they wear or who they hang out with.
I see a shiny diamond ring on your finger ... are you
engaged?
Yes! I met him in the Air Force duringtraining back in fresh-
man year. He goes to Penn State, so we don't like him very
much. We dated for about a year and a half, and he wants to
be a pilot too so we got engaged (couples in the military can
only be together if they join while they're married). We've
been together for almost three years now.
Getting busy
Fulfillment without
commitment at the 'U'
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