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 You know, we talked about, you know, incoming new students to really get

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involved in campus life and you
obviously did. But um what kind of advice

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would you have for students coming in
now in terms of campus involvement?

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I, I still think it's hugely
important. Um I think one of the huge

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advantages to a su is that you can do
anything and be anything and because

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we do have that breadth and depth and
so really think about, you know,

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what, you know, what, what your values
are, what your interests are and

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then pursue that because you're gonna
find anything that you want here and

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you're missing a great opportunity if
you don't take advantage of that. Um

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I really didn't realize that I kind of
fell into it in some ways. I mean,

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I was a little bit involved in high
school, not that much because uh again

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, I came from a single parent home and
I had family duties with my younger

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siblings. So I couldn't do a lot of
after school school things. But um but

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I, I was a really, you know, obviously
a good student and um so when I

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came to u I kind of fell into that and
I was really shy when I, when I

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came, believe it or not. Uh I tell
people I'm a trained extrovert, um,

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which I think is really true. So I
would say just not, you don't be afraid

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, uh, and just step out there and, and
look for the things that you think

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are gonna give you some, uh really um
learning experiences and, you know,

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build you as a person. I tell people
all the time who I am as a leader and

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a manager. So much of that started as
an undergraduate. So much of that,

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it gives you an opportunity to, to
learn and to model and to identify

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mentors and make mistakes. And, you
know, I've learned as much from people

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um that I've worked for or worked with
about what I wanted to be. Um But

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also what I didn't want to be, so,
unless you put yourself out there,

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you're not gonna be able to have those
experiences and they're gonna stay

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with you. I mean, as I said, a lot of
the stuff that I learned was when I

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was 18 and 19 years old.