Elimelech Freites-Alvarado, a sophomore biochemistry major, responds to a street interviews prompt. What’s your game plan if the zombie apocalypse starts on NIU’s campus? (Northern Star Graphic)
It’s the first full week of October and spooky scenarios can start running amok in the heads of Halloween lovers.
Zombies are a classic monster trope, and surely most of us have thought about how well we’d fare if the zombie apocalypse began tomorrow.
But NIU is a busy place full of yummy brains!
If the first zombie outbreak started while we were on campus, what would Huskies do to survive?
Elimelech Freites-Alvarado and Jonathan Hernandez, both sophomore biochemistry majors, have a solid plan to use their chemistry expertise to their advantage: melt away that zombie skin with some cleverly-mixed chemicals!
Q: “The zombie apocalypse starts here on NIU’s campus. What’s your game plan?”
(Freites-Alvarado) A: “My game plan would be to go to Faraday (Hall), lock myself in the stockroom with all the chemicals. Just kind of booby trap it.”
(Hernandez) A: “Honestly, I agree. It was my idea with the Faraday thing. Just go to the fourth floor, the penthouse and the storage room. So like he said, all the chemicals. I forgot what else we got up there. We have a lot of –”
(Freites-Alvarado): “Dry ice!”
Klara Oresek, a first-year business and entrepreneurship major, aims to move as far away from DeKalb as possible while Ashley Hawkins, a sophomore nursing major, will get the closest resources she can as quickly as she can.
Q: “The zombie apocalypse starts here on NIU’s campus. What’s your game plan?”
(Oresek) A: “I would probably pack my stuff, get a gun, kill some of them, and then move to Antarctica.”
(Hawkins) A: “I think I would raid the stores, and then probably fill my gas tank because the car is going to get me the farthest that I need to do.”
Q: “Which store would you raid first?”
A: “All the grocery stores!”
Jay Tarvin, a senior nutrition and dietetics major, thinks she needs to start making some specifically skilled friends, so she can pull off her apocalypse plan!
Q: “The zombie apocalypse starts here on NIU’s campus. What’s your game plan?”
A: “I would probably like, go find some agriculture majors, and see if they want to be part of my group, and see if I can, like, benefit from them. Because all I can do is look pretty. So, that’s it!”