Mykel Hutton is a 22-year-old Frostburg student majoring in psychology, having transferred to Frostburg after attending Baltimore County Community College at the Catonsville campus. Hutton, one of eleven half-brothers and sisters from the Baltimore County area, has ambitions of becoming a counselor, and is currently majoring in psychology to meet that end. Hutton said of the career choice, “I want to be a counselor, but when they were asking me what your focus could be they were like ‘drugs, family issues,’ but that’s not really what I wanna do.”
Speaking on interests and hobbies, Hutton stated “I am an exceptionally exciting person,” preferring to spend free time reading and writing, listening to music, watching anime, and playing video games. When asked about favorite video games, Hutton expressed great enthusiasm for the role-playing genre - “think Dragon Age.”As for a preferred genre of literature, Hutton was all-inclusive, saying “anything and everything, everything fiction - I’m really interested in sci-fi and fantasy right now.”
Hutton is also a member of an on-campus organization: the Brony Club. The Brony movement - or perhaps culture is more appropriate - centers around adults, usually young men, that profess and discuss their appreciation for the television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - often leading to confrontation online with detractors who often argue (with vitriol, more often than not) that the show is intended for children.
Bronies have been a cultural phenomenon for years now in American media after gaining immense exposure through online message boards (of which Poniverse.net claims to be the largest) and social media, and fittingly Frostburg State University has a club devoted (ostensibly) to facilitating discussion of the show between fellow students.
Despite being a member of the Brony Club, Hutton has not watched the show past its second season; it now has six seasons and 138 episodes. “We only actually talked about Ponies one week - after that it was all about video games. Originally [the club] was all about My Little Pony. The show got terrible, the show sucks now.”
The current head of the club, Chris Ricks - advised by Jill Morris - began attending Frostburg State University in 2012, and is still the group’s leader today. Despite being more about Mario Party than My Little Pony these days, the group still meets biweekly.
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