When you say social psych books, you mean like, like, rigorous academic tomes? And I took AP psych in 11th grade - that kind of sparked my interest in it. I read some books about social psych from the last few years. I heard you were interested in psych before you came to Williams. So that got me thinking, I guess I would enjoy people here. And the ones that hung out with me, when they babysat me, are always some of the most fun people. I just passed so many students - I thought of them as like role models to some extent. I guess I didn’t really think about academics at a young age. I had several babysitters when I was younger, who were Williams students, so they’re always cool people who I looked up to. What was a Williams College student in your mind when you’re growing up? Like, what did they seem like to you? I played there hundreds of times throughout my life. And then if you want to play basketball, you just go to Chandler or Lasell Gym. Like, Spring Street’s the one street in town. What is that like? Would you wander around campus when you were a kid? When you say back in town, you mean here. And, I don’t know, I just kinda come back here every now and then. And I was back in town for - we had Zoom meetings every time - but then I was back in town for the final Zoom meeting, and so we sat socially distanced with masks on right here. I did a remote psych research with the social psychologist here, Professor Jeremy Cone, over the summer. The psych building has some very fond memories. I’m planning to double-major in psych and economics. Why specifically, did you choose ? Does this have any meaning for you? Or is it just chill? In my three places of employment throughout high school, all the bosses naturally called me Jake, so that kind of got me thinking like, I guess I look like a Jake. I mean, some people have tried to call me Jake, but it didn’t really stick. So is natural for the person talking to me, I guess. But then I realized that just wasn’t true at all.
Perhaps I thought Jake sounded like an older name. And my high school friends mostly do as well.ĭo you think there are particular character characteristics associated with Jacob versus Jake? Throughout my whole life in high school, I was always Jacob, but then I was kind of feeling Jake the last couple of years so then made a little switch, but it hasn’t - many people still say Jacob, which is totally fine with me. What are your thoughts on whether Jacobs should go by Jacob or Jake? I kind of prefer Jake, but it’s pretty 50/50 what I’m called here, I’d say. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.įirst of all, do you go by Jacob or Jake? This week the computer (using a script in R) chose Jacob Fink ’23, who discussed growing up in Williamstown, his experiences as a Duncan Robinson superfan, his interests in psychology and Malcolm Gladwell. As long as the owner of a selected unix is willing to be interviewed and is not a member of the Record board, that person becomes the subject of our interview. Each week, we randomly select a unix from a list of all current students at the College for our One in Two Thousand feature.
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