Tucker Davis
Sep 6, 2018 · 6 min read

Interviewing a GC Bobcat

Drew Salter is a senior at Georgia College and is a Management Information Systems major. He is 21-years-old. On campus, he is involved with YoungLife, Kappa Alpha The Order, and Ducks Unlimited. His sense of humor is a combination between slapstick and dry. He is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, and he has nice hair.

Drew Salter is hiking at Lassen National Park in California, Sunday, July 29, 2018. Drew hiked what he consideres to be a giant rock with a giant smile on his face.

Q: What is it that you want to do after you graduate?

A: Well right now I am deciding between two things. With my major either I want to go and get a corporate job in Atlanta, just to get some experience for the first like approximate 18 months and to really kind of give to that field a chance, or I would like to attempt to work for a record label and do analytics for them.

Q: What made you want to study Management Information Systems?

A: For me, my father was a part of that. He was very influential of me pursuing that because that is where a lot of majors are in. I knew I wanted to do somethig in the business realm, and just fromm hearing people talk about M.I.S. I figured it was a really good way to get a job. There is a lot of demand for where the industry is going and I knew that I’d be able to get a job and keep a job for a long time.

Q: What was your favorite moment, or one of your favorite moments, from your time here at Georgia College?

A: … Just kind of for me, I think the event of like getting placed as a YoungLife leader in Milledgeville was probably like one of the best. In the moment, it was awesome and I really loved it, but looking back at it three years later, I guess it’s like two and a half years later, and just all that’s come from that, like I’d consider that like my best moment in college.

Q: What made you want to get invovled in YoungLife?

A: I was very invovled in highschool and the ministry gave me a lot and it was the reason I had a relationship with jesus andi wanted to give back to taht ministry and do what people were able to do for me.

Q: What is YoungLife?

A: Younglife is a relational ministry where people at georiga college go into high schools and middle schools and we form relationships with those high school and middle school kids, and through those relationships we earn the right to be heard and we are ablet ot teach these kids about the gospel and put them at the foot of jesus christ through our three c’s: club, campaigners and camp.

Q: If you could do anything for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?

A: I’d say in general like something I’d like to do for the rest of my life is like to play music. … I dabble in guitar… I had a bad experince with a lady, and I was down, after spring break, and I was like ‘you know what, I’m gonna go buy a guitar.’ And then I did. And then with YoungLife stuff it required me to like to be able to be good at playing guitar or to be dabble-able. And with that I practiced a lot, and now I’m at the point where I’d say I dabble with the guitar.

Q: If you could learn to play two more instruments, aside from the guitar, what instruments would they be?

A: A piano, and a banjo; both of which I have in my possession currently. It is a five string banjo.

Drew Salter is hanging on the job as he is working the ropes for the zipline at Woodleaf YoungLife camp in Challenge, California, Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Drew hangs from his harness waiting for the next round of campers to come down onto the zipline platform.

Q: If you could back to your freshman year and tell Drew one thing, what would you tell him?

A: Honestly, I’ve done a lot of dumbs stuff in college, don’t get me wrong, but the dumb stuff i’ve done has been some of my best memories. I’d say, to maybe,

focus a little more on my realtionships with people, and just like build very lasting relationships and really invest in people because we have really good people in Milledgeville and it’s really easy to take them for granted.

Q: If you could have one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner for the rest of your life, what would it be?

A: My breakfast, of course, would include a very nice cup of coffee. It’s a poor over: Ethipian blend. The perfect proportion: has very fruity notes to it. And then I would have… I can guarantee you I’d have a very nicely made pot of grits with cheese in it and bacon. Also, I would have a very nicely made bacon, egg and cheese sandwich, well toasted, you know the egg runny, extra bacon on the side. and I think that would be my breakfast. And also a side of hash browns.

Then my lunch, would be not as detailed. I’m not a huge lunch guy. My lunch would be a very quality sandwich. The sandwich would have ham, turkey and bacon, with some cheese, nice sauces, and my side dish would be chick-fil-a type fries: waffle fries but they would be … fried slightly different: a little more crispy.

And then my dinner would be a nice steak: a sirloin. Cooked medium, with a twice baked potato, and then very nice made home-made biscuits … And

I would also have my mom’s potato casarole because it makes me smile.

And then I would finish with a dessert of where I get chocolate and vanilla ice cream and I put it in a cup, and I just put milk on it. I don’t blend it. It’s a poor man’s milkshake. It’s one of my interests. And I think that’d be it. Oh, also my dinner would have an appetizer of mozzarela sticks.

Q: If you could see any musical artist, dead or alive, who would you see?

A: I’m tied … between Bob Dylan and Led Zepplin. One concert that includes Bob Dylan and Led Zepplin. So it’s both sides. So I mean you have like, and don’t get me wrong, you know. Like Bob would play like some of his rock stuff, but also it’d be just like acoustic him and a harmonica just singing about the blues in his life and all the good stuff. And then, Zepplin would just come up there, and then everyone would just go nuts. and It’d be a beautiful consicration of glory.

Q: If you could have a meal with any three people, who would the three people be, dead or alive?

A: I don’t know. I feel like, that’s something that like my mind doesn’t even like race about … like I wanna say Jesus Christ, but I think that’s kind of a given but and think I’d feel really convicted. It would be really cool though, like talking like that time, I think it’d be really cool to like sit down with Paul. Like post like all like imprisonment and stuff … get like more backstory and more depth on why he wrote them the way he did ... Also I think it’d be really cool to sit down with … Mac DeMarco. I think it’d be hilarious ... everything would be a joke and he’d be having a great time … I think it’d be cool like to sit down with like Steve Jobs.

… the thing he did were so like revolutionary in a lot of way.

So that’s the spectrum: music, faith and business …

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