Ramez Qubti aerospace engineering junior

Aerospace engineering junior likes monkeys in diapers, never tried astronaut ice cream

WILDCAT: Are you going to be an astronaut?

QUBTI: Um, no. Just an aerospace engineer, working for Boeing or NASA or Airbus, some of the big names out there.

WILDCAT: What if they were like, ÎHey, we want you to go into space with a monkey.' Would you do it?

QUBTI: Yeah, I'd probably go with a monkey.

WILDCAT: Good choice. They're pretty entertaining.

QUBTI: Yes, they are.

WILDCAT: Especially when they have the little diapers on.

QUBTI: Yes, that is funny.

WILDCAT: Ooh. Have you ever had astronaut ice cream?

QUBTI: What?

WILDCAT: It's ice cream that they take with them in space. It's freeze-dried so that you have to suck on it to make it ice-creamy in your mouth.

QUBTI: No, I have not.

WILDCAT: It's secretly good. You'd think it wouldn't be. I mean, it does sound disgusting · a big compacted blob of dried ice cream, but I like it.

QUBTI: I've never heard of it before.

WILDCAT: Glad to be the one to share that with you. So here's another question. I just got married three weeks ago and I obviously changed my last name, but I am concerned that people won't be able to make the association. What do you think?

QUBTI: Um ... I don't see the big deal.

WILDCAT: Well maybe if I tell you what my last name used to be, you'll understand the big deal. It was Jampole. As you can imagine I was the butt of many jokes.

QUBTI: Jampole? And what's your new name?

WILDCAT: Kleinman.

QUBTI: It's not bad. I'd go with Jampole actually. It's more unique. I like it.

WILDCAT: Sure, I meet someone who likes my last name and doesn't make fun of it after I'm already married.