People of UNF is a chronicle of students, faculty, university staff and visitors. Here’s a closer look at those we see walking by us everyday, those we overlook and those we sometimes wish we knew better.
Photos and interviews conducted by Michael Herrera
![Darian Estes, Creative Writing Freshman](https://unfspinnaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/People-of-UNF-02-11-2016-1-600x428.jpg)
“Earlier today I saw an armadillo next to Building Eight and it was pretty cute!”
![Asa Heckman, Biology Junior](https://unfspinnaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/People-of-UNF-02-11-2016-2-600x400.jpg)
“I was at a funeral the other day, it was like two weeks ago. I was helping people with the door and all that. You know most people say ‘thank you’ or ‘have a good day,’ and everything, but this one older gentleman, probably in his 70s to 75 area, when I opened the door and he walked out. What struck me was, he didn’t say ‘have a good day’ or anything like that or ‘have a good weekend,’ he said ‘Have a good life,’ and that just kinda hit me. Nobody says that, but that’s probably the best thing you could wish somebody. It was short but it really impacted me.”
![West Billareal, Business Junior.](https://unfspinnaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/People-of-UNF-02-11-2016-3-428x600.jpg)
“My sister went to FSU and had a bad experience there and [my dad] wanted to get me into a smaller school. I went [Stanford], and it was just bad. I didn’t like it. It was tiny, not much to do there, so I was like ‘I’m going to get out of here.’ I said, ‘Where to go?’, so I transferred to UNF, but first I applied to FSU and UF, and I didn’t get in there probably from the Stanford GPA was hard on me. So I got into [UNF] and I realized this place was just awesome. I love it.”
![Cassidy Solito, Biology Education Senior](https://unfspinnaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/People-of-UNF-02-11-2016-4-600x428.jpg)
“I’m trying to start a jewelry business. I’ve been making [jewelry] since I was 12. And someone just told me to start selling it one day. I’m trying to get there. Honestly, I just don’t have a nice camera to take the pictures of stuff. I have an Etsy, nothings up on it yet though because I need to make the listings. I have an Instagram. The Instagram name is basilandcatnip; that’s the name of my business.”
![Nick Cigrind, Finance Sophomore,](https://unfspinnaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/People-of-UNF-02-11-2016-5-428x600.jpg)
“I passed an accounting test.”
Do you enjoy accounting?
“Yeah kinda, I didn’t do so well on the first one. But then I studied all this stuff and got a better grade.”
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