You can usually find Hanna Hertzberg buried deep in her computer screen, cranking out a full day’s worth of work in an hour or two right before it’s due at 11:59 p.m. Some may say that’s a bad quality, to be a procrastinator that is, but I’d say that’s just who she is, as she’s been my best friend for 15 years. When we were kids, you could usually find us outside playing a game of kickball with the hooligan neighbor kids and having deep conversations on the light-green electrical box, as deep as conversations can be when you’re six years old. Hanna would go on and on about how she wanted to be a sports broadcaster when she grew up, but she ended up becoming a sustainability and the built environment major at the University of Florida. She grew up in the Land O’ Lakes and Lutz area of Florida and went to Oakstead Elementary School, Rushe Middle School, and Plant High School, where she rowed for the crew team and placed sixth in the nation. She always knew she wanted to attend UF, so she applied her senior year of high school and was accepted into the Santa Fe transfer program. She spent one year at Santa Fe before transferring to UF. During her first year at UF, she joined Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity, a professional fraternity focused on architecture and allied arts, where she learned how to be more involved with the school. Now, she is a senior and recently completed her first internship last summer with Moss Construction as a project management intern. During her internship, she worked at the Swamp Cabbage Solar Energy Center in Fort Myers, Florida. She tracked construction progress through field observations and installation quantities. She was certified with OSHA and also learned how to use construction management software such as Procore, Bluebeam, and PlanGrid. This wasn’t her first job. Over the past couple of summers, she worked at an ice cream shop in Dunedin called Strachan’s Homemade Ice Cream & Desserts, where she scooped ice cream for people during Florida’s brutally hot summers. Hanna always had fun at this job because she got to work with her best friend, also known as me. Her favorite memory from the ice cream shop days was when we recreated a viral video at the time of a customer asking for a certain flavor of ice cream, giving them the wrong flavor, and then me throwing the ice cream in her face. The video went semi-viral on TikTok, and we got over 5,000 views. She mentioned that getting the vanilla custard out of her hair was not the most fun, but it was worth it. Our boss even saw it and thought it was hilarious, so a win is a win. Graduating in spring 2026, Hanna isn’t really sure where life is going to take her, as she wants to do a lot of things. Some of her options are joining the Navy, traveling for a little while, or settling down with a job at either Moss Construction or CPPI Construction.