Name: Mia Rydin-Orwin

Course: BSc(Hons) Computer Science with Cybersecurity

Year: 1st Year

What made you choose to join/run the Aberiichi Mahjong Society?

I wanted to create a place where people could enjoy learning and playing mahjong at any level. I want to make a society where people can learn Riichi Mahjong and then go on to either play casually or competitively in the society or outside representing the uni! It would be a fun and rewarding experience, along with Mahjong being a social and strategic game, everything goes hand in hand pretty easily! :)

What's the most embarrassing or funny thing that has ever happened to you?

When I was a kid I would pretend to be a DJ while listening to a local bands music!
 

If you could time travel, would you go to the past or the future, and why?
Probably the future, I would LOVE to know how the world has changed after all that time (hopefully for the better!!)

If you could live in any fictional world, which one would it be and why?
Thats a difficult one because a lot of my favorite settings are dystopias and I would probably die a day after living there, but 300% Jujutsu Kaisen, I feel like I wouldn't be too bad of a sorcerer :), then I just have to hope I don't come across a special grade who kills me day one lol.

What's your favourite board game or video game, and what makes it so enjoyable for you?
Obviously Mahjong. What makes Mahjong to me so incredibly fun is just how much strategy and skill there is in the game, but at the end of the day, it's still luck-based to a certain degree. Building a brilliant hand and calling 'Ron!' is such a brilliant feeling!
 

If you could have a dinner party with any three celebrities, who would you invite and why?
- My first pick would have to be Charli XCX, a lot of her music inspired me to get into music production and really push myself to creating a new and unique sound for my own music, so I would love to hang out with her.
- My second pick would probably have to be Lewis Hamilton, just because I'm a massive Hamilton fan and he just seems like someone who you could very easily get along with and have a blast with at a party or something.
- My last would have to be Zohran Mamdani, he also seems like he would be so incredibly fun to hang out with!