Hi guys we are back on the podcast this week talking about our college experience and our advice for this years incoming freshmen! This episode we are joined by our friend and fifth year architecture student at our alma mater, Virginia Tech, Waverly! Stay tuned to hear what we suggest!
This episode was sparked by the dropping out trend on Tiktok we assumed this was due to COVID-19 and how that impacted student's previous school year. Back to school season is in full swing right now and we are coming to terms with not going back and we asked ourselves are we experiencing post-grad blues? How does it feel to not be back at school?
All three of us attended Summer Academy at Virginia Tech so we described that application process and touched on how we chose our college. What should you look for in a college?
We also talked about the adjustment period and how the first year of college went for us. Going to VT we saw a lot of racial events happen in our presence we touched on the various racist sports team incidents that occurred in our time there.
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What sparked this episode
- Dropping out trend tiktok
- Post grad blues and happies
- How do you feel about not going back to school this year?
- How does it feel to be back at school? How does it feel to not be back at school?
Background:
- We all went/go to VT
- Summer Academy
- How did you pick your college?
- What did you look for when picking a college?
First Year Questions
- How would you describe your first year of college?
- What are some things you struggled with in college particularly your first year?
- What is your advice to this years first years considering their position with covid?
- How did we handle school during the covid period?
- What was your move in and adjustment period like?
- What were/are your moving essentials?
- What was it like having roommates?
- Do you have any roommate horror stories?
- Do you have any tips on meeting new people
- What clubs were you apart of?
- How was the food?
Overall Questions
- What was exam week like
- What did you do when you felt overwhelmed or not good at school?
- What to do over breaks
- How often did you go home how often should you?
- Do you recommend working during school
- What jobs did you have while at school?
- Did you ever think about dropping out?
- Did you ever switch majors? What was the process like?
- What was the first generation student experience like?
- What was it like being black at pwi?
- Black Groupme
- BSA
- NARP vs Athletes Debate
- We experienced a lot of racist events while at tech how would you guys describe those events and how they made you feel?
- Baseball team incident
- LAX Team incident
- Football Player incident
