For the past several semesters, my dear friend Ben Osborne has created an "Elite 8" list of those people who influenced him the most during that semester. Well, in the spirit of that tradition, I have complied a list of the 17 people I met and/or hung out with this semester who were simply the best! My Vienna Sweet 17 (in no particular order) 1. Alyssa Story (bff Kentucky) 2. Julien Macario (France) 3. Nirveen Basra (Vancouver, Canada) 4. Laura Clinton (Kentucky) 5. Srdjan Mavrenski (Serbia) 6. Farhad Oskouei (Iran) 7. Amber Dillon (Kentucky) 8. Nina Tekavčič (roommate Slovenia) 9. Will Taylor-Medhurst (England) 10. Greg Sanderson (Buffalo, New York) 11. Paul DiBona (Boston, MA) 12. Connie Guo (Vancouver, Canada) 13. Charlotte Ekholt (Norway) 14. Ugur Ersoy (Vienna, Austria) 15. Christine Nguyen (Texas) 16. Dania Gilany (Vienna, Austria) 17. Susanne Hammer (Vienna, Austria) I couldn't pick just 16.... so we went with a Sweet 17!!!