By Holly Buczek
Sometimes, you meet someone so special, you decide you want to keep them in your lives. This can be simply as friends, but it can also be roommates. Many Honors students meet their freshman year roommate and move on after the year is over. However, this is not the case for Breena Hansen and Ruthie Tucker, class of 2022.
Breena is a business management major and Ruthie is an elementary education major with minors in early childhood education and studio art. Breena and Ruthie are seniors this year and they’re celebrating their fourth year living together as roommates. They’ve known each other much longer, however. They met for the first time in the fourth grade when competed as basketball rivals on the mighty C-team, which they participated in until eighth grade. After that, they both attended Shawano Community high school. They ended up having most of their science classes together, and even took a ceramics class taught by Breena’s mother during their freshman year. They decided to be roommates after Breena saw Ruthie’s facebook announcement that she was attending SNC. They were both accepted into the Honors Program, and knew they were meant to be roommates. They’ve never looked back! They lived together in Bergstrom Hall , Michels Hall, Premontre Hall, and currently live together still in an on-campus house.
Ruthie loves living with Breena because she is one of the sweetest people she knows, AND she’s an amazing cook! Ruthie hasn’t had a meal plan for the last two years because of Breena’s amazing cooking skills. Breena loves the fact that she and Ruthie have the same sense of humor; they frequently crack each other up.
A story they wanted to share with the Pulse readers is that they recently took a day trip together to Peninsula State Park in Door County. They went on a three hour hike without any snacks, on a very dangerous path. They survived! It was a beautiful day and while exhausted, they had fun regardless.
After graduation, Ruthie plans to return home and become a first grade teacher on the Menominee reservation. Breena on the other hand isn’t too sure about what the future holds for her. In addition to her SNC education, she’s been taking classes to become a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner with a goal to open a women’s health and wellness center. Best of luck to both of these amazing individuals!
Thanks for sharing your roommate story with us, Ruthie and Breena!
