__If a ringtone can match personality, Amy Dorsey is a great example. The catchy Bob Marley tune that plays whenever she receives a call seems to groove right along with her unruffled and upbeat persona. This accomplished senior is quite the model citizen, having helped start Tribe College Outreach last year and served as the undergrad assistant in the Office of Volunteer Services.__

**Your Facebook profile picture is of you sprawled out laying face down on the ground. Is there a story behind it?**

Well, that picture was taken just after I had gone swimming with wild dolphins in the winter in New Zealand. It was freezing cold, but I didn’t care because there were dolphins. It was right afterward and the rocks on that beach were really, really warm from the sun. So, I was just trying to expose as much of my body as possible to it, which was why my hands were turned all weird; I was just smushed up against it, including my face. I was just kind of sunbathing on the rocks.

**What’s one of your funniest freshman year memories?**

I think it was probably the last week of school, and the very end of finals. A bunch of us girls who were still left one night just decided we really wanted to roast marshmallows, but obviously you can’t build fires on campus. We all got together late at night in our pajamas with the bag of marshmallows we already had leftover from something, which was what had piqued the idea. The only thing we had that we could set on fire was a giant Jesus votive candle that one of the girls had who was really Catholic. So we just sat on the brick walkway that links Barrett and Landrum and lit the votive candle between all of us and roasted our marshmallows on the votive candle. It was ridiculous. We felt like it was probably very blasphemous, but it worked.

**What words or phrases do you think you most overuse?**

“Seriously,” as in from “Grey’s Anatomy,” “seriously.” I use the word “baller” a lot, which doesn’t even really fit with me. People hear me say “baller” and they’re like “What the heck?” I say it all the time. Oh, and “just kidding.” Whenever I screw up, I say that.

**What’s your favorite song?**

My favorite song is the ukulele version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” the kind of Hawaiian version. I just love it. I feel like everyone knows that song but very few people know who sings it. I know it’s like this big Hawaiian man who has some ridiculously long name. It’s so relaxing and happy and chill. Most people don’t know this about me, but I love reggae and beachy ukulele surfer music.

**Who is your favorite hero of fiction?**

When I was younger, I absolutely adored Anne of Green Gables. I thought that she was so adventurous and spunky and just did whatever the heck popped in her head. She wasn’t afraid to say whatever she wanted to say and do whatever she wanted to do, no matter what people thought of her.

**What’s been your favorite meal ever?**

I was at this outdoor art market and they had all these food vendor stands set up. They were just random people who set up on the weekend — sort of a mom and pop deal. I don’t even know if they were licensed or whatever. There was this guy making these huge Souvlaki. I got one, and I had never had Souvlaki before, and it was so good. To this day, whenever I go to a restaurant that has Souvlaki on the menu I get it, but it’s never been as good as when I got it from this random little man in this stand.

**What’s something that people probably don’t know about you?**

I really love animals and if I wasn’t a psych. major I’d probably be pre-vet, or something. When I was in high school I used to work part-time as an assistant vet. tech. and an amateur wildlife rehabilitator, so I raised baby squirrels, possums, ducks and birds. Basically, any random animal you find in the woods I’ve probably raised at one point. One of my absolute lifetime goals is to go to Borneo and volunteer at the Orangutan Conservancy and work with orangutans.

**Do you have pets now?**

I don’t at the moment. I had a pet ferret for seven years, and she was the coolest pet ever.

**What was her name?**

Her name was Ravenclaw for the Harry Potter House, but we called her RC for short. She was like a dog. She’d follow me around the house and sleep at the foot of my bed sometimes. She even knew how to play fetch. So, the next pet I get once I’m settled enough would be another ferret because I think they’re like the coolest pets alive.

**Service seems to be a running theme in your life. What’s your funniest service-related memory?**

In high school, I got a grant to go to Namibia in southern Africa and lived in a squatter community there for two and a half weeks as a goodwill ambassador. I was 15 at the time. The first night I was there, the mother of the host family that I was staying with wasn’t at home so it was just me, two little girls who were about five, and the other host student who was around my age. It was like 11 at night and she wanted to go out and get bread for the next morning, but I was kind of nervous since it was basically a slum [in which] we were staying. So we’re walking through this slum at 11 at night in Africa and this guy pulls up next to us in his car and starts talking to us in Afrikaans. I’m thinking, “Oh, he wants directions, whatever,” but the host student starts yelling at him in Afrikaans and he drives off. So I was like, “what was that all about, wasn’t he just asking for directions?” She goes “No, he was asking how much you cost” because he thought we were prostitutes. [Laughs].

__Amy Dorsey certainly kept me laughing. If you’ve got a question about how to get involved in service on campus, need some reggae recommendations or just a little wildlife rehabilitation advice addressing the crazy campus squirrels, Amy Dorsey’s your girl.__