Discussing Campus Life with Shaun

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I'm a biomedical engineering major with a French minor, and I am a rising sophomore. Um, so initially, case was honestly, not that high up on my last I'm not gonna lie. I applied to 10 schools, and I think when I finished my applications, I put case around the middle. Um, but then when I got accepted, um, I kind of looked into it a little bit more, and I found out a lot of things that I didn't know. Like I said, I'm a biomedical engineering major, which is one of the most popular camp. Are majors on campus and cases really good about it? Um, and there was just a lot of things that I just started finding that I didn't know about. College is the academics on the academic environment. Surrounding case, a case could be a bit stressful, but it is a school that where you're really challenged and our motto is, Think beyond the possible. I really like to throw that out there a lot, mostly as a joke, but also it is something that can really be inspiring if you really think about it, and to just not worry about what your limits are and focus on getting to your goals. There are also a number of clubs to do if you want to try something that's really interesting, but not within your program. So if I wanted to do theater without being a theater major, even though I am, I could do Players, Theatre Group or foot lighters or improvment and a bunch of other things, or get involved with the film society. Um, and there are different aren't groups on campus. It is a very nerdy school, and the we have it within Stroh Sacker Auditorium, which is one of the lecture halls on campus. It's also where film society puts on movies every weekend and one weekend out of either each semester a year. They have a sci fi movie marathon, which I think it's a very case thing to have and go to, and it's cool that you can just be in a room where everyone's proud to be a nerd. People are going to be judging me because I'm going to a SciFi movie marathon and want to see Alien. The case is also good at me, very much to embrace, and we make the jokes like, No, that's such a case student thing to do, like a while You're doing that. You really are a case student like we make those jokes, but we really do, except one another's nerdiness. We realized like you had to try decently hard in high school and like, had to be pretty strong and them with me to get here on DH So everyone just kind of recognize is that from each other, but realize that we are not just basic already people, and we do have other things that were interested in if you want to spend all your time doing one thing and that one thing only like you can. I'm premed on DH. You just want to do like one club. There are ways to do clubs and only spun like like an hour to weak on them. So the clubs and groups on campus there very good understanding like you're Adam academically rigorous school. We're not going to take all your time, but if you still want to be involved, you can. Another thing that's really cool about campuses. Everyone's really supportive and there was an event that I went to called Elect her in the Women's Center, which was inspiring women to get involved in different forms of government. That was a really cool event and it helped me practice public speaking through elevator pitches and made me feel really strong and like I didn't have to worry about, Oh, people are going to be judging me because I'm running for this in this position and I'm a woman on DH. Sometimes that's just needs to be reiterated for you to actually feel it. So that event was really cool for me and I'm now heading into my second year on student government, which has been a really cool experience for me, and I really allows me to feel like my voice is being heard on campus, and I think that all of the representatives are there for everyone. It's very high up there for LGBT acceptance and kind of empowerment, which is something that I wasn't super folks on when I came to college, but with something that I was really refreshed by when I did come to case. I found that out because I had zero idea that that was the thing. In case Andi, It's very cool, something that I did not expect coming to such a like, academically rigorous, focused school. It's really like they're very good at empowering people. Like I said, like, case wasn't my number one choice and it wasn't even my number one choice coming into the school and getting accepted and everything. Then I got here, and I just found so many incredible people on so many things that I was like, this exist crazy. Um and it really made me fall in love And like, Yes, I have my days where I go back to my dorm and I'm incredibly angry and I'm incredibly upset with my professors. Um, but then I get back and I'm like, You know what? I'm so happy I came to case because also, I really like the balance in case like, yes, the academics are very hard, but you still have the ability to have a life here on that is something that I know a lot of people do struggle with coming to schools like cases. High school may have been very easy for you and coming to a school that is a lot more active. Probably wass, you do kind of have to learn to adjust and really start fully prepared for a tsunami of work. If you were not fully planted, it will knock you over. You just had to be repaired to get up as much as you can and hope that you've come prepared and know that there are people around you who are are really willing to help you succeed, no matter what. Um, that is little some some people's job to literally do nothing but make sure students are thriving in this campus.