Ruby Mathiason ’29 featured in year-end Star Tribune culture column
Mathiason is a Carleton student in the Class of 2029.
Ruby Mathiason ’29 is one of the featured Minnesotans in a year-end Star Tribune culture column titled, “In a hard year, these Minnesotans gave me hope.”
As we plow into a new year, we ask ourselves: What made us happy? What gave us meaning? What did we overcome? How will we remember 2025?
No one should be surprised that identical twins Adriana and Ruby Mathiason are crushing their college experience after graduating at the tippity-top of their class from Richfield High School last spring.
Adriana is studying at the University of Wisconsin, deepening her love of music journalism. Ruby’s at Carleton College, participating in theater and mock trial. They proofread each other’s essays.
What is it like to go their separate paths? “It’s weird!” Ruby says. “We hate thinking about things like our first birthday apart from each other in March.”
When they do get together, like they have been over winter break, the twins are inseparable. And even though Ruby will head to back to Northfield soon, Adriana is planning to learn to ice skate at the Carleton ice rink so the siblings can lengthen their time together.