Margaret and Vivi Kraus

Questions:

1. How would you describe your relationship with your twin?

2. If your twin had to be arrested for anything, what would it be?

a) What would you be arrested for?

3. What is your twin’s favorite and least favorite food?

a) What is yours?

4. How would you describe your twin’s music taste?

a) How would you describe yourself?

5. How do you see the two of you 30 years in the future?

6. How are you most different?

7. How are you most similar?

8. What is your favorite/least favorite part about being a twin at Exeter?

Margaret Kraus

1. My relationship with Vivi is really loving. It’s really comforting to know that no matter what I do or get involved in she’ll always be there for me. We share the same sense of humor and she knows me better than anyone in the world (and vise versa). There’s no such thing as twin telepathy but we can usually predict what the other is thinking or feeling in a given situation. Our personalities are very different, but this only makes us closer. If I didn’t have Vivi I wouldn’t have half the world view or empathy that I have today. She’s my best friend.

2. If Vivi were arrested for anything it would either be protesting for human rights or stealing ten packs of cup noodles from Walmart a) I wouldn’t get arrested for anything because I'm the good child.

3. Vivi will honestly eat anything but she really likes chocolates and unusual pastries like crêpes or cheesecake.

a) My favorite food is a good bagel in the morning.

4. Vivi’s music taste is pretty alternative but not quite hipster. She’s the person that jammed to Twenty One Pilots before “Ride” even got popular.

a) I like anything with a beat that I can dance to, but also acoustic music for relaxation. Our music tastes definitely have a lot of overlaps.

5. Thirty years in the future, Vivi’s going to be a starving poet with a wife.

a) I'll hopefully be married with a kid or two. I'll always make her visit me on holidays.

6. The way we're most different is probably that I love going out and doing things when we're home but she's more content to spend the day in her pajamas (not that I don’t join her a lot of the time).

7. The ways we're most similar are that we share the same core values and have the same sense of humor. We also both have immense capacities for love.

8.  My favorite part about being a twin at Exeter is that I know without a doubt she’s always there when I need her. It also made the transition to boarding school a lot easier on both of us.

Vivi Kraus

1. Margaret and I have the best possible relationship I could ask for. We’re so different in such good ways, but we still have the same sense of humor. I don’t feel any competition with Margaret and I think she feels the same way about me. We support each other in everything. I especially love that Margaret challenges me to get out of my comfort zone and try new things. I love her so much.

2. Margaret would probably get arrested for trespassing, and I’d get arrested with her because she would have forced me to pose for a photo on private property.

3. I’m not a picky eater. I like a lot of food, and I don’t dislike that much, but if I had to choose I think my favorite food is sushi. I’m not a huge fan of bananas, but I do sometimes eat them to get that good potassium.

4. Margaret’s music taste is very general. She likes pop and rap mostly, along with a lot of other stuff. She’s got a soft spot for John Mayer.

a) I’m pretty much the same, except I had a pop punk phase and I’ve never liked John Mayer.

5. We’ll both be aunts, definitely. I’m hoping life will turn out so that we live close to each other. We’ll keep up the family tradition of summers in Cape Cod so that our kids can play together on the beach. Profession-wise, I’m not as sure for Margaret, but I do know she’ll probably be working with people and hopefully loving her job.

6. Weirdly enough, we’re so different in so many ways that it’s hard to pick one most important thing. I think, though, it has to do with motivation and hard work, as well as trying new things. Margaret is very hardworking, motivated and adventurous, which are all amazing qualities. I’m sort of a homebody, and I have a hard time asking for help and stepping out of my comfort zone. Margaret helps me a lot with that.

7. I already said that we have very similar senses of humor, which is great—there’s nobody better to quote Spongebob with. We also love each other a lot, which is a great commonality.

8. The best part is that, no matter what, I have family here with me. Our whole lives have been together, from the womb, and so I know that she’ll always be there for me. I guess I don’t really have a least favorite part about being a twin at Exeter, because what could be better than going to school with your best friend?