Life Outside the Classroom (3 p.m.)

Welcome to Colorado State University's what's there to do at CSU besides study life outside the classroom. We are going to wait just a few minutes, it looks like a couple of you have already joined but just to make sure that everyone finds their links and get access OK, so will start in about 2 minutes.

Already will go ahead and get started welcome again to what's there to do at CSU besides study. We're going to talk about life outside the classroom today, so thank you for joining us for this web and R as a part of Senior Scholarship Showcase. My name is Meghan Miller and I am an assistant director in the opposite admissions. I actually graduated from Colorado State University in 2016, so about 4 years ago and obviously I loved it.

At Colorado State and now I get to spend my full time job, helping students transition to CSU and through the application process. And everything as well. I am also the assistant director who's focused in on high achieving recruitment. So I've been a big part of this event and I really appreciate you all doing this and just want to acknowledge the that we really want you here at CSU and we know that your high achieving students.

Have done so well in high school and I just applaud you for that and hope that that your senior year is getting off to a good start. So just a few disclaimers before we get started an kind of to give you an idea of what to expect you can see the agenda on the screen. Now I do want to mention that I am at my home in my Home Office and as such. There's always potential challenges. I have a puppy nearby. I also have hopefully good Internet connection, but if anything happens.

Technologically, or we lose connection or anything like that just know that I'm just going to close it down and start it right back up so you don't need to worry. You can just hang tight if anything goes wrong will make sure to fix it as quickly as possible. I also want to let you know what to expect from the actual presentation today. So I'm going to be talking just for the first 20 minutes or so I'm going to give you kind of an overview of justice. Some of the things and fun exciting things you can get involved in at CSU and the opportunity.

Opportunities excuse me that we have to offer an these are kind of the top 6 things that we see students really get involved in so I'll be talking about each of those, and then we're going to transition over into a student panel so as a part of the student panel. You'll have the opportunity to ask questions for current students at Csco, an as you're looking at your screen right now. You should be able to see a place where you can type in questions. You can type those in at anytime throughout the presentation.

You can even try to get my attention by typing something in there, I'll see it. An I can address it or give it to the panel at the end, but please use that feature because we really do want to cover things that are of interest to you and make this worth your time so without further ado will go ahead and get started with talking about the first most common way to get involved at CSU is through student clubs and organizations. One of the great things about going to a larger University is that there's honestly a lot going on.

When I was going through the college search process as a senior in high school I was looking at a lot of schools and just to tell you a little bit about me. I went to a small private high school I only had 50 people in my graduating class and so at first I thought that maybe I would want to go to a small private college as well. and I kind of had this idea in my head that maybe that would be better for me and then I started looking around and touring different universities and for me personally, I.

Got really excited at CSU because I was thinking wow. There's like so many things that you can do here and so many things that you can get involved in an it kind of opens up the realm of possibilities. And you can still get that strong academic environment, but also have access to a lot of other things going on all the time I personally liked the feel of a large school with so much to do and that large school environment. But small clubs and organizations, where you can get plugged in and really find your communities so we definitely have that here tons of student clubs.

And orbs basically everything you could think of you're interested in getting involved in a diversity or international club. We have 60 plus of those there's a lot of faith and spiritual based organizations. We have fraternity and sorority life. We have a lot of clubs that are just focused on activities or sports or ways to get outdoors. So it's very common to get plugged in and get involved at CSU and we definitely encourage you to do so.

Another thing that students really like to take advantage of his education abroad. So I don't know if any of you have thought about studying abroad before if you have, maybe drop in the chat a place where you think you might want to go something that's great about CSU is that you can go anywhere in the world. So we have education abroad, advising so the way it works is you go to an education abroad advisor in our CSD education abroad office and they help you find a program that really fits.

What your interests are there's programs across the whole world that are associated with CSU and our partnership institutions and then if you find another program that works for you can still meet with an advisor and they can help you work that out, and kind of make it an easy transition and navigate that process with you so one that's really fun that you can kind of see on the screen. There is that we are actually the host institution first semester at sea. This one is fun to talk about because it's a big cruise ship that has been repurposed.

Into classroom space and students from all over the country at different universities get on this ship and go around the world first semester, but it's actually CSU hosted so you may have heard of it from other schools. An other schools can go but they're actually CSU classes, which is super cool and just kind of speaks volumes to the amount of what our reputation is within the education abroad space. We also have Toto Santos Center. That's a CSU campus in Mexico.

Where you can get a lot of experience with different programs they have Spanish immersion programs and cultural programs.

And then just a bunch of other abroad opportunities that you can be apart of when. I was a student. I studied abroad in Prague, Czech Republic in Eastern Europe and the best time it's absolutely possible for you. I applied for scholarships and was able to get those to make it affordable for me, so definitely consider that.

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Another thing that people get involved in that can bridge between academics, but also personal involvement or getting a job is through undergraduate research. So we have a lot of access to undergrad research at CSU. We have over 5000 students participating in undergraduate research each year. We also have something called Cirque that's celebrating undergraduate research and creativity. It's a big showcase that happens every year where students can showcase their research and get experience with.

Creating a poster board and kind of having like an adult science fair type situation, but regardless of what major in it doesn't have to be like really science lab focused every major has opportunities to get hands-on research experience inside and outside of the classroom and then some students end up actually turning that into Akarere as well. I have my brother in law actually study biochemistry at CSU and he was interested in going to PA schools, so physician assistant school, he thought you might want to go into the medical field.

And he actually got a job as a researcher in a lab at CSU when he was, I think, a junior at Csco, and he loved it so much that after graduation he ended up applying to jobs to work in research labs instead. And he's been working at a research lab in Fort Collins for last four years, so he still has the option eventually to shift and apply to pay school and go that route. But it's nice to know that that can also be a career for you too, and just get you experience.

With your major before you graduate.

And then another way to get involved on campus or do something outside the classroom is to get a job. And that was some funny. It's not just to get a job and get paid and be able to support yourself. It's also a great way to find communities. So this is a group of our admissions ambassadors, and that's who's going to join me for the student panel and a little bit. They are paid positions on campus that do a lot with our recruitment efforts.

And help us with things like this. Help us give tours or host events or help with calling and emailing and doing virtual chats with incoming students. So it's a really fun job. You can help yourself financially and then they also become really good friends and that's how a lot of the jobs are on campus. Really great way to find community is to get a job at Csus that you're meeting. Other students that work there and finding community in that way. It's also just really convenient. My first couple of years at CSU I worked.

Off campus at a mall and it was about 20 minutes from campus, maybe more 25 minutes or so an. I was commuting like back and forth and going to class and I would have to. It was just kind of hard logistically and then my second two years I got a job on campus and it was a really big difference. Like I remember when I first got the job they asked me for my class schedule so I was able to like turn that in and then there was flexibility around like exams and just.

Understanding what the student schedule looks like and it was a lot easier to navigate. So nice to be able to go to class and then just pop on over to your shift like 10 minutes later. So definitely recommend getting a job on campus. It's a great way to help yourself and then also make friends and find community.

And then of course, Fort Collins is just a really great college town I. It's kind of hard to describe. I don't know how many of you have been there before, but it's basically mid-size town. There's about 160,000 people in Fort Collins. So is the 4th largest city in Cala Rado and this picture on the slide right now is a picture of Old Town Square. It's kind of the main center of.

Old Town which is our historic downtown area, just a mile North of campus. There's tons of coffee shops and restaurants. An outdoor vents, really good ice cream. I always like going to Old Town for ice cream in the winter or the summer and just a really great community so it kind of has a small town feel. There's a lot of festivals and events and parades and things that happen. It's a great place to sit outside on a patio and get some.

Food. There's a lot of concert, small scale concert venues, and it's definitely known for live music and art and cultural events, so there's a lot going on in our downtown area. The actual downtown areas on college Ave, and it was actually the inspiration for Main Street USA in Disney land, so that just shows you how cute it is. If people ask what it's like and like, Oh, it's just.

Cute like a very cute, quaint college town with a lot going on and a lot of fun. New things happening as well. We also have some other things outside of the downtown area that you can do. There's a drive-in theater it so that's really fun, and it's right up against the foothills of the mountains, so it's in a really beautiful spot and they've been doing really well. As you know, with everything that's going on, they hosted a lot of concerts and things at the drive-in theater this summer as well. So definitely it.

Good option and then in the whole area there's a River that runs through Fort Collins. One of my favorite things to do would be to like tube down the River, or if you're into fishing, you can fish at the River. They also built this new water park area, which may be one of the ambassadors can talk about it during the panel. I haven't actually been to it yet, it just opened this summer, but it has like a little rafting zone I think. And like kayaking. I'll let them talk about that, but there's a lot to do in Fort Collins.

Really great food in general all throughout the city, so I love Fort Collins. I'm sure that you'll love it if you come to CSU as well and then I already hinted to some of these things just because so common in Colorado to be active and there's easy access to the foothills of the mountains. So just about five or six miles West of our campus is this picture. Here you can see Horsetooth Reservoir. It's a Six Mile long reservoir. It's beautiful. There's lots of boats that are part there, but there's.

A ton of ways for you to get out and enjoy it. There's hiking, camping, picnic spots, stand up, paddle boarding, kayaking, lot of like just really pretty drives like around the canyons and behind it is a State Park so you can go back there. Recently my whole family just brought like like camping chairs and kind of sat out. We had a paddle board and kayak and we had our dogs and we just hung out by the water so.

There's definitely fun things to do there and then. Rocky Mountain National Park is like the best National Park and it's only like 40 minutes from campus up in Estes Park. So definitely beautiful place to get there. And then I think some of you are from like the Denver area. Another thing that's kind of nice is there's a lot of access to the mountains just West of CSU and so you don't necessarily have to go down to Denver Anthru I-70 as if you've driven I-70 like.

It's not always the best, so you can go just West and really enjoy, like the Pooter Canyon, which is the River that runs through and there's really beautiful spots. You can go all the way to Steamboat from Fort Collins. There's also some really great places just East or North of us in the in Wyoming, or just eastern Nebraska, so there's tons of ways to get outdoors and really enjoy that while your student at CSU and it's definitely common as well.

So that is generally what I kind of wanted to share of just an overview of some of the things that we have to offer. Excuse me and some of the great resources that we have right at our fingertips. I love Fort Collins. I think CSU in general has a culture of justice. People do get involved like people get out and find clubs and organizations an I'll let the ambassadors talk about the ways that they've gotten involved on campus. And I don't think we've gotten questions yet.

So as I start to transition, I just want to remind you if you have any questions for the student ambassadors, please submit them via the chat an I'll go ahead and invite them in now so ambassadors you can go ahead and join on your video.

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That was perfect. I was so fast. OK, awesome. So these are student ambassadors. Their current students at CSU right now. Please drop questions in the chat so that they can address things that you're actually interested in hearing. You can literally ask anything, but especially if you want to know more about things that they are involved in, or how they found their involvements. Definitely drop that in there, otherwise we'll go ahead and get started with having them introduce themselves. So if you could just go down the line and kind of say.

Your name, where you're from, what you're majoring in, what year of school year in and then some of the things you've gotten involved in. And maybe some areas that you could address questions in. So if students have questions about blank, you'd be good to answer an will go Lucy Scott Emily and then Jessica.

Perfect hello, my name is Lucy. I have a fourth year student here so my last year I'm studying English with a minor in Spanish, but I'm actually on the pre Med track promise. It makes sense in my own head. Kind of the reasoning behind it is I.

Wanna go to Med school eventually? But I love English and didn't want to give up my passion for liberal arts and literature and in class discussions and stuff like that. So I'm kind of just doing both at the same time, which is awesome. That CSU allows me to kind of pick and choose from different areas of campus outside of working as an admissions ambassador. I'm also a presidential ambassador, so I represent the president of CSU, Joyce McConnell, and unto donors and other.

People I CSU so like normally I've yet football games talking with donors and at different events. With Joyce McConnell. I'm also involved in a church in Fort Collins and I help run the special needs program there.

I love being outdoors so I love running on the trails in Fort Collins. I really love rock climbing both inside and outside outside rock climbing course tooth and it's a blast I love I am sports so like inner tube water polo is the best and I'm also involved in some different clubs so Spanish club and a pre Med Club Med Life Club which is like volunteering in the medical field.

Yeah, I think that's about it. Oh, and I'm from Denver Co so.

Yeah, there you go.

Hi everyone, my name is Scott. I am currently a third year at Colorado State studying chemical biological engineering with a minor in biomedical engineering as well and I am from Colorado Springs Co. Some things off of Alton outside the classroom and pretty involved in our slice office which organizes all of our student leaders. All of our student clubs and organizations. They also offer some volunteer opportunities and some leadership development opportunities there. Just a really great way to to get involved on campus.

I'm also involved in our swimming dive club on campus as well as our orientation and transition programs office. I'm also in our authors program as well as being a pre Med student like Lucy.

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Great, I'll go next. My name is Emily. I am a junior this year. I am studying management in the College of business and political science from Parker Co. Some things that I'm involved in outside the classroom is the University Honors Program. I'm been involved in that since my freshman year. I'm also an ASE SQ which is our student government, the Deans Student Leadership Council for the College of business. I'm in leadership in a Christian.

Campus organization called crew. Let's see I also I also play a lot of I am sports and also if you have questions about being pre law or you have questions about internships going abroad or even spending a summer interning in Washington DC, you can ask me those questions as well.

I'm Jessica, I'm a third year studying Biomedical Sciences and in color Springs. As far as what I'm involved in on campus. Kind of the big thing for me is I'm the president of a club. It is a mental health club called active minds and kind of the idea behind it is to create a space for students to take care of their own mental health and then also encourage other students to do so as well.

And help take care of each other at CSU. Beyond that, I'm also in a research lab on campus. We kind of focus on neuroanatomy, so if you have any questions as to you know how to get into a research lab at CSU. I can totally answer those. I also play a lot of IM sports. I grew up being very athletic so I have like doing multiple of those and.

I also really enjoy community service kind of reaching out to the surrounding Fort Collins area as well. I I volunteered at the local homeless shelter multiple times and I'm also part of this kind of volunteer disaster relief organization based in Colorado.

Awesome, thank you all. You're all doing such cool things. We did already get a question.

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OK, well the next question I was just going to. We got questions submitted. So the question is what do you do in water polo intermural which Lucy you mentioned that right? So when you talk about inner tube water polo and then actually while you're doing that, can you also just we mentioned? Like I am sports a couple times, can you give a little overview of like what that is and how you get involved?

Yeah, of course, and so I am sports. Intermural sports are the best in my opinion, so we have multiple levels of sports that you can be involved in it. CSU and other than you know? Our collegiate athletes that are on our football team and that kind of thing we have 2 other options for you, we have club sports, which those are you have to audition audition. Oh my gosh that be if you're like a musical you have to whatever the word is.

You have to try out there, we go. You have to try out for those sports and they travel and there more competitive. So I like to say if you played soccer whole life and competitive environment and want to continue in that competitive environment. That's a good option for you and then we have intermural sports and those are great because any student. CSU can sign up, and participate. You can sign up as kind of a free agent or you can sign up with all your friends and create a team of you and all your best friends and we have tons of different IAM sports. We have ones that are more competitive ones that are more.

Fun and you can kind of mix and match. You can do multiple at same time, so I'll just talk about my favorite 2. The first one, is just my roommates and I every semester. Do air mural bowling. So it's just one night of Bowling, an my roommate snare Terrable Bowlers, but we have so much fun. We just go once once a semester in bold and the other one is the inner tube water polo. So basically it's water polo, but instead of having to tread water. The whole time, you get to sit in an inner tube.

It's awesome. Everyone looks ridiculous because you're wearing these like water polo helmets, but you're in. He's like a big inflatable tubes trying to move see look ridiculous. But it's so fun and actually get pretty competitive, sometimes so that's inner tube water polo.

Awesome we did get a question of is there an archery club do any of you know if there's an archery club. I just did a quick Google search and it looks like.

I found an article but it was a couple of years out dated so I'm not sure if there is an active one right now, we can drop a link to someone put ram link in there actually so people can search this is website. Scott do you got that for me?

Thank you so this is a website that he'll drop in the chat that basically you can search different types of clubs. I didn't see archery on there specifically if there is not a club that you want. Then you can start it. So you only need 2 people and then a faculty advisor to sign off with you and you can start any club that you want. An I know that there's archery ranges in Fort Collins, so there's definitely ways to get out and do that. I just don't know if there's an organized club, but I'm sure people would be interested in that.

OK, we did get a few more questions. Can you guys tell us a little bit about Csus outdoor program?

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I could probably talk about it a little bit and then other people do that on as well. But the outdoor program is in office located in our rec center and it's really just a way to kind of get out an Explorer. Everything that Colorado has to offer they put on a ton of events throughout the year. They do a ton of trips out to the mountains they do like snowshoeing trips. I believe they do like camping trips as well, and then you can also rent gear from them. I believe it's around 10 to $25, but you get access to it for like for like.

Up to a month for 3 months and so it's pretty pretty iaccessible, which is awesome, and you're able to rent any of the year that you need participate in all those trips, but they do a ton of events they have snowshoeing events like I said.

Are there any others that people can think of?

I think they leave daily backpacking trips to and they also rent a lot of like rock climbing equipment out. I think they might do some rock climbing trips to.

The end, there's 1 called CSU, which is it provides the transportation to get up to a certain ski resort. If you want so they release his schedule every semester of which resorts are going to in which weekends and so you just sign up to go on that specific one.

I think it's $20 for that bus ride there and back for the day.

Scott while we're on this topic do you want to talk a little bit about your involvement with your club sport?

Yeah, so the sports hub's office is also in the rec center. It's likely she said. It's kind of below are kind of NCAA athletics, but it's a great way to get involved, and kind of have that more kind of regimented schedule, so for a lot of our sports clubs. They do have tryouts, but for the summer dive club. We don't have tryouts, you can be any level of the swimmer or diver and will take you and kind of get going from there, but there are a ton of ways to get involved.

They are all student run organizations and so, if you're looking to get some experience in running kind of the swim team or whatever. Other sport, you're involved in that can be a really great way to get that experience if you wanted to do that, after college.

But it's really just kind of a great way to get out and meet people I joined the swim and dive club in my first year and I absolutely loved it, I it was one of the first things I got involved in as a student and it really kind of gave me a way to just get out and talk to people kind of get outside my dorm room get outside my school and just kind of fun. One really great aspect about our sports. Clubs is that they do travel so for example, I have gone to Salt Lake City. I've gone to Ohio and North Carolina all apart of the swim and dive club.

And then a lot of that is paid for an kind of our dues to be part of the team. But there are also some extra fees, but it's so pretty affordable, which is super awesome. They do a ton of events throughout the year. They do like community service events. They do social events and it's kind of just a great way to get involved. They have meets and competitions. I believe last year. We also went to like CU Boulder. We went out to Greeley to University of Northern Colorado, we went down to Denver.

We went out to CU Denver, as well as Denver University.

Just kind of competed against some other teams under the great thing about their sports. Clubs is that they're all a little bit different so for example, our hockey team travels alot, more than our summer dive team, but that's just 'cause those students take a lot more take a lot of different opportunities in the swim and dive club does and they are a little bit more competitive than us. I do see question asking about the water. Polo Club so there is actually a water polo sports clubs, they're just getting started.

I believe they actually just split up and created both the men's and women's water polo team, so if that is something you want to get involved in that is super accessible to you. I can probably put a link to their website. In the chat and so you can see kind of what they do what they look like and learn some more information about that club.

I actually just put a link in the chat to that, so like right before. You said that Scott so yes, there is a water polo link in the chat right now. If you want to check that out.

OK, the next question that I was hoping a few of you could address is how you got involved in a lot of things like? How did you find these things Anne? How did you decide what to get involved in so maybe we can go kind of the opposite order this time and just give a quick answer so Emily Jessica Scott and then Lucy.

Yeah, I think it's interesting because I came to CSU. I was very involved student in high school and I wanted that to be true of my college career, but I came to CSU and I learned that there were over 500 organizations and that overwhelmed me a little bit so really what was helpful for me is going through slice they have involvement advisors. So I was able to meet with his involvement advisor and they were able to recommend a couple things for me to look into which was really great, so for me again, I'm studying.

Management in political science, so for me, I'm in the College of business and so I was able to get involved in leadership within my college so that was a really good place for me to start my freshman year and every single college actually has a college council so if you're wanting to meet other students that are taking similar classes that are also looking to be in leadership and your specific college. I recommend those college councils greatly also. Yeah, if you go through slice no matter what you're looking for whether it's a social club and academic club is service club.

They can really connect you with those places, so slice is a great resource also just ask people. If you meet other students in your classes ask them what they are involved in honestly for me. I ended up being friends with a sophomore in my freshman year who is involved in a CSU and I ended up getting involved so that's kind of I mean, it's a weird way to figure out things. But I think that combination of slice showing some initiative and getting help there and then just asking around was really effective for me.

Yeah, I'll go next so kind of the summer before my freshman year started. I actually found ram, which I see we've already put in the chat, but that has a complete list of the 500 plus clubs and organizations that we have in each have their own site to kind of describe what the club is and so you know, even before I came to CSU. I was scrolling through there just kind of getting an idea of what?

Kind of opportunities are there and what I think I could be interested in and then at the start of every semester slice will host an involvement Expo and that's kind of this massive tabling event, where at the Lory Student Center Plaza on campus. They just set up a bunch of tables where clubs have the opportunity to kind of.

Show who they are, and have students stop by their table and sign up if they want to and so I went to that involvement Expo and signed up for pretty much anything that I thought like maybe I could be interested in but then of course, as time went on, I figured out what I liked and what I didn't like II kind of backed out of some of them, but one of them ended up being active minds, which is a club that I'm the president of now, and so it just started by stopping at their table.

Note within the first couple weeks of my freshman year and then my research lab, I got involved with that through professor who I've had class with. I was just talking to her saying that research was something that I wanted to do. By the time I graduated and she added to kind of heard through the Grapevine a little bit that there is another bio Medical Sciences professor looking for student to work in his lab, and so she connected us and that's how I got involved in his lab.

A lot of the stuff I have gotten involved in have kind of just been last minute referrals. I guess I don't know how to better describe it, but kind of. Just like the last minute before that organization started that club started. I heard about it from a friend and decided to go and join, and that's kind of how I got involved. Lot of the jobs I've had on and off campus have also been just hearing about it through friend, hearing about it, seeing the poster about it on campus.

I was actually in orientation leader my first year on campus and I applied to that like the last day before the application closed and it was just 'cause I saw a poster about it on campus. I have gotten a lot more involved since my first year and it's just been through friends pointing out about.

Some different ways to get involved. Finding out some new things that I think might interest me and then just kind of seeing what happens. I'm really kind of just go with the flow and just kind of hope for the best along the way, and that's really kind of how I've approached getting involved as well.

Yeah, for me, I think well, I think the best advice. I can give incoming freshman is try out a lot of different things. Because you never know what you're really going to love and especially if you become a part of a club or organization organization that you're passionate about you'll find other people in that club that are similarly passionate about that thing and that's a really good way to starting long lasting friendships.

And especially as a freshman it can feel kind of overwhelming at the beginning like? How do I meet people and so going to clubs and different events that interest you can help you find people like you for me one thing was that fair the like.

No, like different chair at the beginning of the semester where they had all these tables out in the Plaza, I was able to walk around and get a lot of Flyers and talk to different people about things that interested me. They also have a faith and belief fared at the beginning of the semester. 2 so I was able to find an organization that fit my faith well and place. I was able to find a lot of friends, so those two things were great and then kind of like what Scott said. A lot of it comes with just kind of organically as you're around people on campus, you hear about different.

Opportunities and I would just say pursue those. That's how I heard about admissions, ambassador, an presidential ambassador. It was because of people I knew who were a part of it and loved it and told me, like hey, this would be ready up your alley. So it's also just a piece of being open your freshman year especially and keeping your ears open to what's going on on campus and what you might be interested in.

Alright, awesome.

So it doesn't look like we have other questions in there right now, so if you all still have questions, make sure to submit those. Otherwise will probably close with this next question if you all could just share something that CSU has given you or allow you to be a part of that, you don't think you would have found otherwise, so maybe something cool experience that you've had that's unique to CST.

And we can go that same order. So Emily Jessica Scott Lucy.

Yeah, for me it's really hard to pinpoint like one specific thing I've had really cool opportunities to explore going abroad. Different internships, but I think what I would say that's unique about CSU, specially for me. I looked at a lot of different schools across the country and I was really obsessed with like trying to find like what was going to be like the perfect academic fit for me that would challenge me the most. The school that had the best college rankings but for me, I realized CSU offered me the best holistic college experience so.

For me, I'm able to get a really awesome education. I have awesome professors Anne, really great academic opportunities. I've really cool professional opportunities. I've gotten connected with some really cool people that have made me feel really confident about life after graduation, but also I've met really fun people. I've gotten to do really fun things across the state of Colorado. I've spent a lot of time in Rocky Mountain National Park, a lot of time and Old Town at coffee shops and concerts. And honestly, I think just.

Reflecting back on my college experience so far, I just know, like the holistic experience I have here at CSU, where I'm not able not only able to be a successful student, but a really just happy person in general. I think that's something that CSU uniquely offered me that a lot of other schools couldn't.

Yeah me, I'm also premed, I didn't mention that earlier, but kind of when you're pre Med student you kind of sometimes get in this mindset of like there's this number of kind of check boxes that you need to mark. You know in your undergraduate you need to, you know be in this stem major you have to do research. You have to have all these, you know extracurriculars and leadership roles and you can kind of get stuck. And just like doing things just because you feel like you have.

And CSU was kinda place where I really genuinely wanted to do all of these involvements and and things that I'm doing like I love my club that I that I'm leading. I love the research lab that I'm in and all the community service kind of activities that I'm doing as well and it just kind of. I think the CSU community just makes it very easy to kind of just reach out to the people that you know and find opportunities through that. I mean, even if you ask me like a year ago from now.

If I ever thought I'd be in a research lab, I would tell you absolutely not because I know that I like the clinical side of Medicine a little bit more, and I knew I was not a research kind of person, but I just needed that was kind of an experience that I needed to have for for Med School. But kind of talking to my professor and finding the neuroanatomy lab that I'm in is just such a neat opportunity that I find myself surprisingly genuinely excited to do it. And I was not expecting that at all. It really felt like.

Research was just going to be that box that I check and then get over with, but with that lab and with plenty of other things, I find myself really wanting to be apart of that at CSU.

I guess one thing that's really unique about CSU is that they really encourage you to explore your address. When I got here as a first year student, I was really kind of set on going into engineering, but as I kind of found out more about some other opportunities found out took in anatomy class, took a Physiology class, I kind of found some other areas that I want to do more, and so if I hadn't gotten out and done some different things.

Tons more kind of people based jobs. I really wouldn't have found. Kind of the interest that I wanted to do and the passions that I want to pursue, and I think that's really unique to CSU. When I was looking at a lot of other colleges, they really were kind of set on having you declare a major pretty early on and sticking to it.

That's pretty awesome that CSU allows you to explore and still graduate in four years and really make the most of your education and find something that you're passionate about and can still make into Akarere. And so I think that's what's been pretty unique about CSU to me.

Eminem was so I'll kind of speak a little bit about two classes I've taken that have been really interesting and I don't think I would have gotten outside of CSU and the first one is my anatomy class. Got kind of mentioned it earlier, but it was an incredible class for me so the anatomy classes paired with a cadaver lab, so dead bodies I know freaks me out too, but basically we actually have the biggest undergrad anatomy lab in the country.

And one of the best in the country. We just had our anatomy lab completely redone a couple years ago and it is incredible. There are so many opportunities and we have 30 cadavers, so that's a one to four ratio. So one pirate every four students. Most schools that they're lucky to have it could ever have maybe four or five, and so they have 20 students try to crowd around one cadaver, and then we also have a virtual anatomy lab. So you're going to put on these like VR.

Goggles and then it holds up like what looks like a 3D body in front of you and you can spin it and like look at it and expand things and take bones off. So cool. I've never done virtual reality before and it totally freaks me out. I almost ran into a wall one time 'cause I forgot where I was, but it was so cool and just like this experience where like I wear scrubs to school and I was like I feel so cool.

So that's my not be laughing literally. One of the only undergrad nanny labs in the country that I that offers things like that to Undergrads. And then the Class I'm taking this semester completely different. Taking a poetry in Pottery Class. I've never done pottery in my whole life, but I wanted to try it. I want recently interactive, so we literally talk about poetry and then we're learning how to make pots on like wheels and stuff. And it's totally out of my comfort zone. I brought home play the other day and had to make.

Objects within it's freaking out like felt very unartistic, but another class where they kind of were able to convert. Combine two different fields of study into one class and learning so much and I'm learning it hands on with the class of less than 20 people. So those are just two classes that are completely different that I've really enjoyed and it really expanded how I see my major.

Thank you all so much for sharing and for talking about the things that you've gotten involved in and what CSU is meant to you. I really appreciate it. I think that will go ahead and wrap up the web and R then thank you to the participants for sending in questions that was great and interactive and we really appreciate it. Hopefully you're joining some other sessions. We have a couple more tonight and then we also have a bunch going on tomorrow. If you did not register for sessions tomorrow, but you want to look at the list, you can still register on our website.

We have some mock lectures happening tomorrow and there's some really cool ones around like business and liberal arts, and you can look through the list and see if any of them interest you. And then of course we'll see you on Saturday for the main event where we will announce the scholarship winners. So thank you to the student ambassadors. Thanks for being here and thank you to all of you that participated. I think we just got a question.

Do you have to register for the main events?

So when you registered for senior scholarship showcase in general you would have registered for the main event. I can double check your registration and email you if we have any trouble with it. I will take down your name and follow up if you need to do anything else. So thank you all and we will see you later this week and thanks to the ambassadors.

Grams