By: Megan Clark 
Campus Life Editor

All text is taken directly from a conversation with a featured Western student.

Nicholas Nielsen, junior, music major, human.

I see music as being the same kind of thing as dance, or painting, or just the way that the grass grows. I don’t really know about passion; I guess I don’t really understand that word very well … I always thought that I was passionate about it. But I think that it’s more just striving to learn about these natural things; music is something that is really natural to humanity.

The type of fun [little kids] are having is safe … just running around, playing with each other, being nice to each other, just loving … I think that is a thing that makes me the most happy. Because there’s no reason why the rest of us can’t be like that. Why can’t we be like that all the time?

[My friend] just handed me this baby, and I was like, “Dude I don’t even know how to hold it right…” I’ve held babies before, so I don’t really get why this happened … it just felt so comforting, and just so, like, enjoyable to be holding this baby, even though the baby was like “oh I don’t really want you to hold me, because this is a little uncomfortable.” She didn’t like, start screaming at me or anything, but … it kind of enlightened me about this feeling that girls have when they hold babies.