Derek Hogenson

Derek Hogenson is a senior at North Dakota State University who is majoring in Sports Management. With this major Derek has already worked with the Fargo Force hockey team. With the Fargo Force Derek’s job was calling different organizations like schools, churches, etc. In hopes of having them attend some Fargo Force games. Though this job fit well with his major, Derek doesn’t want to stay working with the Fargo Force. He isn’t a big hockey fan but instead loves basketball. His dream is to work with the Minnesota Timberwolves. With the Timberwolves Derek believes that he would probably start out with a ticket job like he did with the Fargo Force, but he wants to work his way up. Also, because he is more into basketball then hockey, he will be more knowledgeable about the sport, so he could answer any guest questions, and he would be more excited about his work and in turn try harder to work his way up.  If his plan to work with the Timberwolves or any other pro basketball team doesn't work out, his backup plan is working with the parks service.  

Derek is from West Fargo, North Dakota. West Fargo is interesting because it is its own city, not the western section of Fargo as one might think. Derek explains that the West Fargo High School is interesting too because their school is known as the Packers, which according to Derek comes from the Meat Packing industry.  

Derek obtains his news from the Pioneer and from ESPN. It makes sense that a lot of Derek’s news comes from ESPN because as for mentioned Derek is a sports management major. The Pioneer is a newspaper that Derek reads, he admits that he doesn’t really read newspapers that much but if he does read one, it would be the Pioneer.  

In Intro to Media Writing Derek is looking forward to getting to know the professor. Derek likes his first impressions of the professor and hopes that he can continue to enjoy his class. Derek is also looking forward to talking about controversial topics. He is excited to hear other opinions and share his own. One thing that Derek is not looking forward to is all the writing that Intro to Media Writing entails.  

Some fun facts about Derek are that he is tall and ambidextrous, these traits set him apart from other students. A guilty pleasure of Derek’s is fishing, he loves to fish and says that he could fish all the time. After grilling Derek, a little more to give me a guilty pleasure that is a little more embarrassing then fishing, he finally admitted that another guilty pleasure of his is anime. He says he mostly watches the more popular shows such as Dragon Ball Z. Though I would advise him to watch some of the more obscure ones, I will admit that I too have a love for anime though I tend to watch less popular and more embarrassing to admit ones. I wonder if he has any more guilty pleasures that he was just embarrassed about saying. I am interested in getting to know him more to find these things out. 

Derek says that the perfect way to make a PB and J sandwich is to put peanut butter on both pieces of bread and to put strawberry jelly on one side of bread. If Derek were an ice cream flavor, he said he would be Neapolitan because he “likes a lot of things”, but after talking to Derek I can see him as a Neapolitan ice cream because he is many good things all in one.