Seniors of CPS: Noémie Nguyen

Interview conducted by Elsa Chun '28

Monday, November the 27th, 2025 at 11:32AM

Elsa: Okay, let's start the interview. I'm gonna start with the rapid fire questions. Okay, so Favorite Trader Joe snack?

Noemie: Scandinavian swimmers. But like the, what is it called? Wait, hold on, the sour kind.

Elsa: Oh, I just had those. Those are really good. 

Noemie: They’re SO good! I couldn't remember what it was [laughs].

Elsa: Freshman physics or Asian worlds?

Noemie: Asian worlds.

Elsa: Gym deck or student commons?

Noemie: Gym deck.

Elsa: Go-to karaoke song?

Noemie: Anything by The Killers.

Elsa: Best way to spend a rainy day?

Noemie: Outside in the rain.

Elsa: Awww. Favorite day of the week?

Noemie: Uh, Friday is a cop out. So Wednesday.

Elsa: Really? Kate [the previous interviewee] said that too. 

Noemie: Huh, interesting. 

Elsa: Do you have a reason for that?

Noemie: Well, Latin Club. And also, it's just like the middle of the week. Once Wednesday is over, I'm like, “I can get through the week!”

Elsa: What is one item on your bucket list?

Noemie: I want to go bungee jumping.

Elsa: Oooh, so these are the longer questions- you can talk a little bit more about these. What is something that not a lot of people know about you?

Noemie: Okay, so I think I'm known for being a rock climber at school because I do it competitively. BUT a lot of people don't know that I played ice hockey when I was younger.

Elsa: Really? I didn’t know they had that here!

Noemie: Not here, it was at Oakland Ice. So yeah. 

Elsa: All right, If you could say thank you to one place on campus, what would it be and why?

Noemie: Oh, this is hard. I have two places: first the gym, because freshman and sophomore year me and Hoda and other people would always be playing volleyball in the gym. It was really cutesy. And then second: the Latin room, because Latin, and I feel like that's the room I spend the most time in.

Elsa: Okay, what's one of your favorite CPS memories?

Noemie: Oh, this one's also hard. The Death March is always fun, I think.

Elsa: Explain what that is?

Noemie: It's like the thing where all the Latin classes go out and wear all black and hit their heads [both laugh]. That's pretty fun, because I get to pull the chariot every year. 

Elsa: Oh, yeah. If you could give advice to your freshman yourself, what would it be?

Noemie: Take advantage of your free time and have fun doing things. Because I feel like, as you get older, you... I've definitely felt like I have less time to do things during my free blocks. But freshman year, I would always be, like, playing games with Soleil, or playing volleyball or just hanging out with people. 

Elsa: All right. And then the last question, where do you see yourself in five years?

Noemie: Huh. This one's hard. If I get a job…

Elsa: If??

Noemie: [laughs] Well, I don't know what the job is gonna look like in five years. 

Elsa: That’s a good point. 

Noemie: But yeah after college, I feel like I'm either gonna be in academia and be kind of sad- like it'll be interesting, but it'll be academia. Or I'll be doing something that I definitely haven't thought of now. 

Elsa: Okay, so vastly undecided.

Noemie: Yeah, I think so. 

Elsa: Well, thank you so much for the interview!

Freshman year, posing for a picture with Samana!