Getting to Know the Board 2021 – Pages of the Friend Book Revealed
Pages of the Friend Book of the SUB Board 2021 have mysteriously found their way to the BTSB HQ and since sharing is caring, we shall be sharing these pages with you, our dear readers! Few entries seem to have vanished in cyberspace but let’s enjoy the pages we do have!
Name: Alice
Position: Vice President and Fresher and Tutor Coordinator / general ✨ everywhere
Height: Basic
Beauty secret: I never go to bed without washing my face. And double cleanse of course on days when I wear makeup 🧖🏼♀️
Favorite outfit: T-shirt, pajama pants, and fluffy socks (a true ’rona outfit)
My phone wallpaper is: a scenery that calms me (currently a mountain forest during autumn)
My dream destination: Probably anywhere with hot weather right now but after that Japan and especially the countryside (I don’t like big cities).
What is HOT: Being kind to others AND yourself
What is NOT: early morning lectures am I right
Villain or a hero: Hero!! Hufflepuff all da way
A book I will always recommend: The Kite Runner/ Any Robin Hobb book/ One Piece (prepare to dedicate the next six months for this series). There are too many!!!
Name: Axel
Position in SUB: Official
Height: Unrestricted
Beauty secret: Shower every now and then
Favourite outfit: Clothes, preferably
My phone wallpaper is: Just black (not even kidding)
My dream destination (fictional or real): A fictional city called Toronto in the dreamland of Canada
What is HOT: Chili
What is NOT: Palm oil
Villain or a hero: Sith
A book I will always recommend: Maus by Art Spiegelman
Name: Alex(ander)
Position in SUB: Virkailija & party animal
Height: About 15cm taller than my doctors expected, 180cm
Beauty secret: Army boots
Favourite outfit: Anything black and red
My phone wallpaper is: My girlfriend
My dream destination (fictional or real): Berlin or Tokyo
What is HOT: Being a respectful person
What is NOT: Climate change
Villain or a hero: Anti-hero
A book I will always recommend: Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Name: Iina
Position in SUB: (all-around) official
Height: average
Beauty secret: sleep (I need to take my own advice)
Favourite outfit: does anyone wear anything besides loungewear these days?
My phone wallpaper is: my dog
My dream destination (fictional or real): there was this absolutely lovely bed at the Hilton hotel in Munich airport, I dream of that bed more often than I would like to admit
What is HOT: believing in yourself
What is NOT: rude people
Villain or a hero: I'm a sucker for a hero
A book I will always recommend: Pride and Prejudice
Name: Henna
Position in SUB: Secretary & Culture Vulture
Height: Pocket-sized
Beauty secret: Moisturizing!
Favourite outfit: Dresses, skirts, t-shirts, and cardigans
My phone wallpaper is: Lock screen is a cool picture I took, and home screen is my nibling <3
My dream destination (fictional or real): Japan is an obvious one, but for real, Elfhame or the Continent
What is HOT: Happiness
What is NOT: Anger
Villain or a hero: Villain all the way, no doubt.
A book I will always recommend: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Name: Ville-Veikko
Position in SUB: Merch coordinator
Height: 180cm
Beauty secret: Disinfecting insides with Pepsi Max
Favourite outfit: Big ass ski coat and other warm clothes when its cold
My phone wallpaper is: Default
My dream destination (fictional or real): Hawaii
What is HOT: Jersey Shore: Family vacation
What is NOT: Lap tops (Because you hardly ever need the mobility aspect these days)
Villain or a hero: Superman. Can’t beat Superman.
A book I will always recommend: Animal Farm by Orwell
Name: Joonas “Pony” Åkerblom
Position in SUB: responsible for international studies, sports & recreation, and working life
Height: 182cm the last time I checked
Beauty secret: I have no secrets.
Favourite outfit: my dark green army sweatshirt, random colourful shorts and my pink woolly socks
My phone wallpaper is: some random colours and stripes
My dream destination (fictional or real): my comfortable gaming chair (not much of a traveler)
What is HOT: ending your 10-hour gaming streak on a WIN
What is NOT: being toxic
Villain or a hero: villains are cool, but I wouldn’t like being one
A book I will always recommend: The Deadly Dare Mysteries by Malorie Blackman; I read it too many times in elementary school and I just want to get my hands on it again
Name: Sini
Position in SUB: Social media and information coordinator
Height: 166cm
Beauty secret: RBF, no wrinkles in sight
Favourite outfit: leggings and a comfy dress
My phone wallpaper is: a picture of a random cat from the internet that looks so done with the world (so me if I was a cat)
My dream destination (fictional or real): Hmm, this is difficult, how can I only pick one? But right now, I dream of travelling back to South Korea! Or maybe one of those pre-sleep fantasies where everything turns out awesome for me?
What is HOT: Kindness and common decency.
What is NOT: Being rude and/or mean.
Villain or a hero: Honestly, aren’t we all in for the tragic villain, who is just oh-so misunderstood?
A book I will always recommend: 1984 by George Orwell, rarely does a book leave such an impression as this one. And any Moomin book or comic by Tove Jansson if you feel like having a good time!
Name: Sini
Position in SUB: Social media and information coordinator
Height: 166cm
Beauty secret: RBF, no wrinkles in sight
Favourite outfit: leggings and a comfy dress
My phone wallpaper is: a picture of a random cat from the internet that looks so done with the world (so me if I was a cat)
My dream destination (fictional or real): Hmm, this is difficult, how can I only pick one? But right now, I dream of travelling back to South Korea! Or maybe one of those pre-sleep fantasies where everything turns out awesome for me?
What is HOT: Kindness and common decency.
What is NOT: Being rude and/or mean.
Villain or a hero: Honestly, aren’t we all in for the tragic villain, who is just oh-so misunderstood?
A book I will always recommend: 1984 by George Orwell, rarely does a book leave such an impression as this one. And any Moomin book or comic by Tove Jansson if you feel like having a good time!
Name: Sara
Position in SUB: President and webmaster
Height: I am not 100% sure but I think 164cm
Beauty secret: I never wear make-up 😎
Favourite outfit: anything black and comfortable
My phone wallpaper is: a black background with a couple of bubbles (it was already in the phone… I’m too lazy to find anything special)
My dream destination (fictional or real): Hogwarts!!
What is HOT: dogs (pun intended)
What is NOT: mushrooms
Villain or a hero: usually the hero, but depends on what we are talking about
A book I will always recommend: Even though I think this one doesn’t have an English translation, I have to say Aili Somersalo - Mestaritontun seikkailut (it’s a children’s book, but it is absolutely lovely, highly recommend)
Name: Alex
Position in SUB: Treasurer
Height: Half a skyscraper
Beauty secret: My secret beauty
Favourite outfit: The grungy 90s clothes that I found at my parents’ summer house
My phone wallpaper is: A photo of some painting I took at some museum
My dream destination (fictional or real): Bed
What is HOT: Vegan sushi
What is NOT: Smoking at the bus stop
Heroes: Crash Bandicoot and Carl Johnson
A book I will always recommend: The one you wrote but it'll cost ya!
Name: Sampsa
Position in SUB: Study and Worklife Officer
Height: 180
Beauty Secret: It all comes naturally
Favourite outfit: T-shirt and Jeans
My phone wallpaper is: a picture of my loved ones
My dream destination: Middle Earth
What is HOT: Pizza
What is NOT: Frozen Fishfingers
Villain or a hero: Isn’t everyone a villain in someone’s story?
A Book I will always recommend: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Name: Julia
Position in SUB: Good balance of parties and work
Height: Tall enough to reach the 2nd highest shelf
Beauty secret: not giving a damn and embracing goblin lifestyle
Favourite outfit: any Hawaiian shirt
My phone wallpaper is: ...Jimin
My dream destination (fictional or real): Seoul
What is HOT: acceptance of everyone as unique individuals and the inevitable change of everything
What is NOT: narrow-minded people
Villain or a hero: hero name villain
A book I will always recommend: Little Prince
Name: Emma
Position in SUB: party planner
Height: a bit sensitive innit
Beauty secret: dont wash your face with soap
Favourite outfit: my overalls
My phone wallpaper is: my dear boyfriend <3
My dream destination (fictional or real): as a sagittarius i cannot choose one, i want to see everything
What is HOT: women, shibas and noodles, the holy trinity
What is NOT: tentacles are never hot, no kinkshaming tho
Villain or a hero: the villain you actually root for
A book I will always recommend: the fullmetal alchemist manga series. revolutionary
Name: Emilia
Position in SUB: Culture, Events and Treasury Official
Height: a lil' bit tall
Beauty secret: memes
Favourite outfit: pyjamas
My phone wallpaper is: Heffalump
My dream destination: Disneyland!
What is HOT: my living room 😓
What is NOT: Having to wait for more Grogu memes...
Villain or a hero: Baby Yoda
A book I will always recommend: The Hobbit
Name: Sara or Sape
Position in SUB: Instagram story enthusiast, WALL•E, Ferdy’s Designated Babysitter
Height: The same as Taylor Swift’s and Blake Lively’s
Beauty secret: You just look at yourself in the mirror and decide that you’re hot. What are people going to do? Disagree? Why should you care?
Favourite outfit: A long floral dress (inspired by our queen Monica Geller from Friends)
My phone wallpaper is: A collage of Pride and Prejudice (2005) photos. I love it. Most ardently.
My dream destination (fictional or real): Hogwarts with the Marauders Map.
What is HOT: YA fantasy, Taylor’s discography and cross stitches
What is NOT: Glasses + mask = more fog than in the Twilight franchise
Villain or a hero: Heroes with a hidden heart of gold
A book I will always recommend: See answer to ”My phone wallpaper is”
Name: Miia
Position in SUB: Studies
Height: Cillian Murphy
Beauty secret: Watching Disney+ until 3 am
Favourite outfit: Black sweater & grey sweatpants
My phone wallpaper is: Pärnu beach
My dream destination (fictional or real): This is a tough one! Of the places I've been to: Windermere in Cumbria, England. Of the places I have yet to visit: Scottish Highlands
What is HOT: London Underground in June
What is NOT: Ice cream
Villain or a hero: Buffy Summers
A book I will always recommend: How could I choose just one! Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.
Name: Jenni
Position in SUB: I'm in charge of the member registry
Height: average
Beauty secret: genuinely just not giving a fuck
Favourite outfit: I feel like my entire wardrobe consists of nothing but band shirts and a single pair of black jeans. So that?
My phone wallpaper is: Catra from She-Ra but please don't tell anyone I said that
My dream destination (fictional or real): Green Hill Zone from the first Sonic game
What is HOT: Phoebe Bridgers
What is NOT: me crying while listening to Phoebe Bridgers
Villain or a hero: Would you consider Catra a villain? Asking for a friend
A book I will always recommend: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Name: Emma A.
Position in SUB: Freshers & Tutors coordinator
Height: somewhere below 160cm!
Beauty secret: sunscreen!!!!
Favorite outfit: my uni overalls of course 🥰
My phone wallpaper is: my boyfriend’s dog 🐶
My dream destination: Iceland or Australia
What is HOT: the tea, always
What is NOT: miss ’rona 😷
Villain or a hero: villains make the best stories 👹
A book I will always recommend: the Brothers Lionheart (veljeni, leijonamieli)
Name: Aida
Position in SUB: equality
Height: too tall
Beauty secret: full coverage foundation
Favourite outfit: anything with heels
My phone wallpaper is: a still from Twin Peaks (yes, I'm obsessed)
My dream destination: Southern Italy
What is HOT: geekiness
What is NOT: arrogance
A villain or a hero: I love a good villain but I'm the underdog hero of my life
A book I will always recommend: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee
