Erika Ebbel: 10 Questions for Erika

(intro music) (typing) (typing) - Oh, this is good.

Very important.

So if you're waving left you must use your right hand.

Reason, because you don't want people to get a full view of your armpit.

Never a pretty thing.

(typing) Nobel prize (typing) The butt glue.

It's a special sort of glue that you apply to your rear end that actually holds your swimsuit in place.

Sticks and adheres for like the rest of the night and for centuries afterwards (typing) ALS, which is Lou Gehrig's disease.

(typing) Clearly I have been blinded by science.

I spent my entire middle and high school career doing science every day and not attending parties.

(typing) It's just believed that if you were in the pageant that somehow you're an idiot.

It's entertaining when they know that you're Miss Massachusetts and nothing else.

I get to tell them that I went to MIT and that I have my own nonprofit company.

The conversation ends really quickly, which is nice.

(typing) My sixth grade teacher who got me reading Jurassic Park and Andromeda Strain, she was the one who started the chain of reactions.

(typing) Heels.

(typing) Be specific but not too specific in the answers that you give because then you don't run the risk of upsetting somebody out there.

(typing) Pick something you're really interested in to do because if you're not interested in it you're not gonna spend time on it.

It's gotta be something that you love to do.

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