Tim Neil
07:30:44 AM
Welcome to this Global Citizens panel! We are thrilled you are here!
Tim Neil
07:30:56 AM
Go ahead and begin to introduce yourself with your name and hometown!
We wanted everything wanted everything.
Tim Neil
07:31:45 AM
We will also use this chat feature to submit your questions. Go ahead and start chatting them in.
Hasibur
07:31:48 AM
Hasibur from Dhaka, Bangladesh
Anna
07:31:49 AM
Hi everyone! I'm Anna from Russia :)
Zacky
07:31:49 AM
Ahmed Carrab from Somaliland!!
Anuarite
07:31:51 AM
Hi All! My name is Anuarite Gikonyo, from Nairobi, Kenya.
Rafaella
07:31:52 AM
Hello! My name is Rafaella Cancado. I´m from Rio de janeiro- Brazil
Kostas
07:31:57 AM
I am Kostas Andriotis. I am form Greece. I am living in Thessaloniki.
Kamilla
07:32:44 AM
Hi! My name is Kamilla Haidaienko. I am from Odesa, Ukraine. I am very excited to be here!
Cece
07:32:45 AM
Hello, I'm Cvetanka (Cece) Pasinechka. I live in Negotino, N. Macedonia.
Nistha
07:32:46 AM
I'm Nistha from Nepal!
Luke
07:32:47 AM
Hi everyone, I'm Loc (Luke) and I'm from Vietnam.
Anis
07:32:51 AM
Hi everyone! I'm Anis and I'm from Nepal
Deemo
07:32:54 AM
Hi everyone! I'm Mustafa Eldmerdash, a high school graduate living in Cairo, Egypt.
Imran
07:33:26 AM
Hii i am Imran , I am from India, currently living in Hyderabad
Macdonald
07:33:32 AM
Hi everyone, I'm Macdonald from Marondera, Zimbabwe..
Strong car moving. We have traveled to see.
There's always had rather be.
Pelumi
07:34:14 AM
Hello! My name is Oluwapelumi and I'm from Abuja, Nigeria.
We need every step we take.
really different than the same.
Tim Neil
07:34:26 AM
Waiting a few more minutes and we will get started.
Salifu
07:34:32 AM
I'm Salifu Fuseini from Kumasi, Ghana
Sajid
07:34:54 AM
I am Sajid, from Bangladesh.
Alright, hello there. Welcome to the global citizens. At Swanee session my name is Tim Neal and I am one of the associate director of Admission at Sewanee, the University of the South. I am also the international enrollment coordinator, so I work. I have a pleasure working with all of these fine students that are going to be joining us today on the screen and working with all of you as potential applicants to the University.
The way this is going to go, I'm going to provide a brief overview of Swanee to hopefully answer a little bit of the questions that you submitted when you registered related to admission and aid. And then we're going to turn it over to the panelists and they will answer some questions in a Q&A format. So who is Swanee? Swanee is a unique place. We are home to 1700 students.
Or an intentionally small student body. Your average class sizes swannies 17 students there. 170 full-time faculty, meaning there's a 10 to one student to faculty ratio. Students really have the opportunities to engage with the domain as we call ourselves the mountain celani in lots of different ways, both from an academic and extracurricular standpoint.
Linh
07:37:31 AM
Hello everyone! My name is Linh Vu and I’m from Vietnam. Nice to meet you all!
Students have the opportunity to explore all 38 different majors in 44 minors. You will not declare a major until the second semester of your sophomore year, so you really have the chance to sink your teeth into a variety of different classes of variety of different courses during your time at Swanee. So one of the common questions that I get asked is.
What is the opportunity look like to double major and I'm going to ask one of our panelists this question later. There is an opportunity to certainly double major, but it's very much reflected on the student and the amount of time that they're willing to dedicate towards their academic work. That's our full list of academic programs. I know that it's probably really hard to see on the screen there, but you can find our full list of majors on our website at programs of study.
Kostas
07:38:48 AM
Nice to meet you guys!
Interesting for Suwannee is that we have a whole host of different environmental programs and those are easilly coupled with other programs both in the stem and humanities. We have students currently enrolled at some of our partner engineering schools at Columbia University and Wash U in Saint Louis. One of our students that left this past year to go and do.
Three years at Washoe Menjou, he is doing both a bachelors degree in engineering and a Masters degree in engineering, so he'll be staying on for an additional year.
But students really have the opportunity to explore all of these different programs, and you're going to take about 12 different classes before you actually declare a major.
And then to provide equity through your education, we want to offer this one a pledge to all of our incoming students so that you have a little bit of Peace of Mind when choosing Swanee. That means that we pledge to provide funding for a summer internship or research assistantship that you can study abroad at no additional tuition cost and that you'll graduate with at least one major in four years or less.
This includes a whole host of study abroad programs, an I'm happy to go into more detail later. I am going to touch briefly on admission and aid really quickly because I know that those were some of the questions before I turn it over to the panelists next.
Find this one is simple. I would hope that it is probably one of your easier applications to complete or on the common application. It's the only application we accept. It's free to apply to Swanee using the common app. We don't have any supplemental essays and were test optional. We bend test optional since 2009. This is not in response to Covid. You really are test optional if you apply test optional. How do you apply? Test optional on the common application when you add's wanting to your list it's going to ask you if you would like.
To apply under one of our four deadlines, and if you would like to submit test scores, that is when you'll indicate whether or not you want to submit testing. We will only accept testing up until the deadline that you choose to apply under. So, for example, our first deadline is November 15th. That's early decision. If you choose to apply test optional, you can submit scores up until November 15th, but after that we will not accept those scores. You're automatically considered for scholarships just by applying to the University.
You don't have to ask me. You don't have to tell me that you want scholarships. You're automatically considered. And then we do require new. This year both the CSS profile for international applicants applying for need based aid, and then for every applicant, regardless if you're applying for need based aid or not, we require this swannies proof of finances form, which is essentially a form that you complete through your applicant status page where you'll be able to indicate on that form the proof that.
Your family can afford the amount against the cost of attendance, which is tuition, room, board and fees. So I'm happy to go into a lot of other detail. I skimmed over that very quickly. I do want to make a quick plug that you are more than welcome to chatting questions. I know that some of you submitted questions for the panelists, so I'm going to invite the panelists to turn on their cameras and to join us. I will say just a little pause that safe is having a little bit of technical difficulties.
He is at home, so hopefully he's able to there he is. Hopefully he's able to join us and then yeah, please feel free to you know to make questions in the chat. This is really an opportunity for you to meet current international students at 20. This is also a pleasure for me to see all of these. Lovely face is bright and early on November 1st so I am going to kick things off by asking each of our panelists to introduce themselves. So we're going to go in order from the top there.
And why don't many? Why don't you say a little bit about you know where you grew up? What is home to you and?
Maybe one or two things that you're you're most involved in at 20.
Julia
07:43:25 AM
Hi everyone, I am Lam ( Julia), from VietNam
One or two things this is going to be hard. Hi everyone, I'm Andy do. I'm from young Omar. I'm an international student from young go. I'm a current English major psychology and gender studies, double minor with the certificate in creative writing and I currently serve as the president of the Order of the gallon. Our Academic Honor Society on campus. And I'm also Co. Director for the Swanee Academic diversity cohort.
Great thank you. Some half go ahead.
Hey everyone, I'm summer pencil. I'm a sophomore currently at Sony from India. An two things that I'm not involved in on campus is that I'm vice president and Treasurer for the organization for Cross Cultural Understanding. Aim is to make Sony and more inclusive place an make sure that everybody who comes here feels welcome.
And I'm also the vice president and Treasurer, also an Asian organization, so we have similar goals. We just have different ways that we go about it.
But but most important that you all have funding in order to to to manage and have a position for that. That's great. We're going to skip over safe because he's not with us right now. Safe is back at home in Egypt, so he said he was having a little bit of technical difficulties. So we're going to skip on over to Lucas.
Hello everyone, good morning. So anytime I'm Lucas Carvalho from huge Janeiro Brazil, I'm currently a double major in politics and international relations and I'm also the Co. Director of the Global Home which is basically a house that welcomes all international students on campus. But not only, but everyone who's interested in learning about different cultures and be immersed in a place of diversity and differences. I'm also a tutor at the center.
For speaking and listening, which is basically a place in the library where we help students to give better speeches and you know present themselves to a big or small audience.
And that's that's me in the spirit.
Please have a lot that they could probably share, but I've asked him to keep it short. So what I'm going to start with are a couple of questions just sort of talking bout why swine so some of you know, how did you first hear about Swanee? More importantly, when you first heard of Swanee, what immediately came to mind? Be honest too.
Pearl
07:45:56 AM
Hello! I'm Pearl from Lagos, Nigeria
Abood
07:45:57 AM
Hi everyone,
Where is 1. What is warning? Those were like the two questions that I had because so I heard about Sony from the next year scholarship program that I applied to an so when he was a partner University an.
I was like this is awesome because it was like a gem that I found out and I felt kind of really special that I knew about Sony when nobody else did. But also it was kind of really hard to make everybody know that there is a place that is this great. It's called cervoni. You should visit it. It isn't in the middle of Tennessee.
So yeah, that that was like the first response that I had various Sony.
Yeah, I think that's a common question that probably each of you could agree with that. You know where is Swanee? What is Swanee so kicking it over to Lucas along those similar challenge lines that somehow hadn't explaining Swanee to his peers and friends and families back at home or what challenges did you run into in the college search process what? What really like was difficult for you as you are applying to schools.
Abood
07:47:18 AM
this is AbdAlrahman Najjar I'm from Palestine. I applied this year ED to Sewanee. I feel privileged to attend this event.
Wells well, I think for me it's a special case because I was a transfer student so I had been to a University in Brazil for two years. So like trying to figure it out, the process of application to survive. It's kind of messy because I did not have the knowledge of how the application process work, but I was lucky enough to have the support of people at Fulford. Actually, you know I would email them all the time and then I'll get like this responses back in like 2 or 5 minutes later.
Explaining, you know you should do this. You should you know you should have this form by tomorrow an I think some people actually gave me their personal phone numbers where I could have a direct phone line with them, which I think it shows the dedication to support students in the application process.
Yeah, I I try certainly to put myself. I try to respond to emails as quickly as possible. Sometimes they come in so fast and furious over the weekends it it does take me a little bit, but how do if I can push that back on you for a second? Lucas how has that then translated to your experience? It's warning.
In terms of a challenge, right?
Challenge but also the the the support you received from our office. How did that? How has that translated or how has it not translated into your experience it's wanting?
It wasn't as I said, it was a different experience because I came here in the middle of the process. I did not know anyone on campus. I did not participate in any of the initial orientations that they have for international students. 'cause I came late in the process and I was not also part of FYP which we will talk a little bit more about later here and.
What else and I also took seven courses?
My first semester, so that was a lot, you know, the usual. The average for people who are watching us is like taking four courses per semester and I took seven. So I think the support not only came from full for it in the sense of financial support, but also you know logistic support. But also it came a lot from my professors at understanding where I was coming from and the situation that I was coming from so I can mention my awesome advisor, which is professor lead for at the French Department.
And I think he was not only an academic advisor, but like a personal contact that I was always that I would always go for support. You know, if I was feeling overwhelmed or stressed or he was just like someone who helped me navigate the whole transition to Suwannee so people know it all boils down to people that I found here.
Absolutely, and you know Mandy when you applied to Swanee, what stood out to you because you're the only one on this panel. I didn't have the pleasure to recruit, but my close friend, well, I'm still super close with did.
Help recruit you. So talk to me a little bit about what's it out to you.
So it was basically I think Sony was the one college that I properly looked at and then I had a couple of backups, mainly because my brother was already here and I was like it's.
Like it wouldn't make sense for me to be there as well, but I think what really?
Drew me to Swanee was just the the domain and just the natural beauty of the campus. And like I'm a creative writer so I kind of need that just to sustain my work. 'cause I've studied in places that were very urban and just recognizing that my work isn't quite.
I don't know. It's not as inspiring, I would say, but also I think it was English Department and their relationships with his professors that he always posted about and I was like I want those relationships. I want to be there and.
You know, have those same conversations so.
Yeah, and the fact that Swaney had a creative writing certificate in an already strong English Department plus just the surroundings I was just like this is gonna be great. It's going to be in Abbas Ali writing poetry all the time. It's going to be great, so I think.
With all my free time freshman, it was so helpful.
Yeah right, I should have asked this, but Mandy could you just state for everyone what you are studying at 20?
Oh yes, I am studying English English as my major. I have a double minor in psychology and women's and gender studies.
And I'm also pursuing a certificate in creative writing.
Thank you somehow, why don't you go ahead and tell us what you are studying?
OK sure, I am a finance and psychology double major with the business minor. Maybe on the managerial track, maybe on the international track? I'm still figuring that out. See, that's the other thing that I love about money. You still can choose to even though I'm like a sophomore right now an I'm already done with one year. I still just have like 2 1/2 more years to go but I still have the freedom to explore again and see what I want and what I want to do because when I came initially I wanted to do neuroscience.
I mean not just the neuroscience is bad, my psychology major is still very heavy neuroscience focused, but it's just like getting to choose and nitpick those minor details that actually help you understand what you want to do and make you realize that so.
Yeah, absolutely. I remember you were neuroscience all the way and I love you know I will support an international student when I'm recruiting them to say absolutely. Yup, keep going, keep going. But something in me tells me that you're actually might be more interested in this too. And it is in that curious discovery. One student said to me a couple of years ago, which I've found to be.
So inspiring in that every semester is like you get to restart and go on your own journey again into four new classes and sort of figure it out from there. And then sometimes they stick and sometimes they don't and that's OK.
Lucas, when you tell the audience what you're studying, it's why.
Sure, yes. So I'm am studying politics and also international and global studies. For politics. I focus on citizenship and human rights and for my international global studies major, I focus in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. But also, you know trying to understand how global capitalism works. So if you like this kind of talks, you can always come to me and we're going to have interesting discussions, thoughtful discussions about you, know how development works, how.
Already works how you know inequality is fun stuff.
Absolutely an important stuff right here. You will be talking to the next President of Brazil and we don't look. Yeah, you know, Lucas is definitely going to get involved in politics and and we're thrilled that you rats wanting so I do want to kick it over to some words and so I will start things out with I think one that's very important to.
To Mandy's heart. So Mandy, you tell us a little bit about what is the gown mean, what is a gown? But is all of that?
Tim Neil
07:55:10 AM
Order of the Gown: https://new.sewanee.edu/campus-life/connecting/order-of-the-gown/
The gown is the thing that is. That basically helps you pretend you're at Hogwarts for the entire T of your swaney time. So the order of the gown is an academic honors society that we have. It's one of it's basically our oldest society. It was founded basically immediately after.
Swati's founding, I think it was the second time round.
And so students get bound in.
Tim Neil
07:55:36 AM
OG Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ogsewanee/
Well, they start getting gowned in the fall of their sophomore years, so the GPA that you need in your sophomore year to get into the order is, I think 3.4 and then it gets lower as you keep going. So it goes 3.2 junior year and then 3.0 your senior year. But the point is that by the time you graduate you will have a gown and.
You know students. It's up to the students whether they were there gown at all, how much they were there, gown I wear my gown fairly consistently. I know students who just were there, gone for the day. They get bound and then.
Never again, so it's really up to the student, but I think like if there's a major presentation or.
During an examination, students tend to wear their gowns.
Yeah, and the gowning ceremony is really cool.
You get to ask like a professor or someone in the order to gown yuan it's.
A fun time and hopefully the president doesn't butcher your name.
That is, you know one of the that aside for a second I'll talk about names in a second, but I do want to at least highlight the perks to having your gown. Does anyone want to say what some of the perks are?
The somebody want to take that.
Yeah, I can take that so few books that I know I might not know all of them, but you get priority registration for when you're registering for your courses and so you could do choose your courses and called dibs. Basically just because you have a gun you also get priority room draw. So first year students when they come in their allotted down residence halls and rooms based on the application that they fill in. But after that you have to have a roommate and then.
Find a new result to live in and so the way that works is through a room draw system an through the room door system. If your ground you get priority priority to be able to do that.
It's going plus class year so.
Yeah, count seniors, non count seniors count junior is not young juniors and so on but for housing and for but who doesn't want to be able to pick their classes earlier and who doesn't want to be able to, you know, choose their room earlier. That's that's. There's some of the icebergs.
You you mentioned the domain earlier, some hub, could you tell us a little bit about your experience with the domain? What does it mean to you?
I think the domain is just.
Anything that I encounter since I've been at Sony?
Tim Neil
07:58:43 AM
The Domain: https://new.sewanee.edu/offices/university-offices/environmental-stewardship-sustainability/the-domain/
Because it's just so vast it's never ending, and I'm not going to tell you like how it's just 13,000 acres then it's never ending. But the way that I mean of ending is like most spiritually like physically. I'm aware that it's just never ending literally, but when you're here, you just keep on having newer and newer experiences at the domain and you always whenever you think about Sony, you think about those experiences and value had them, and that's why the domain is important. Like I can speak from my own personal experience is like this. The perimeter trail where you can go hike. There's like the Mountain Goat Trail that's.
Even bigger than the perimeter trail and like runs outside V RAD. The Trail of Tears at Sony an. So that's a really beautiful drive as well as a hike. You should do both if you can, and so there's just so many different experiences that you get here, which you would not be able to get anywhere else.
Yeah, and I think important. Could you talk a little bit about your friendship family?
Yes, of course I can definitely do that. So Sony has for people who might not know. For some, you know, tell you guys what the French family program is. The Sony offers all international students are French family. The option to opt in for a French family when you're applying an you apply for a French family. There's like a questionnaire when you're like, would you like to have a family with pets? Would you like to have a family with children? Would you like to have a family who is like similar in what you're trying to study in? So like?
Tim Neil
07:59:52 AM
Friendship Families: https://new.sewanee.edu/offices/university-offices/office-of-global-citizenship/international-exchange-students/prospective-students/
They can basically pay you better with the family that you would like an usually the expectations. There informal expectations. You don't have to abide by them, but usually the expectations are that you like meeting with them once a week, spending time with them, showing that you involved and everything but families do understand that you're also busy or college students, so you might not always get time to do that. An you spend time with them and my friends family has been amazing. It has been the best experience ever. I am sure Mandy can agree.
Well, can I ask that question? Because there are community members there. Sony staff, their faculty and some Hobbs friendship family. The dad is really does oversee the domain and gets to oversee all.
What our campus has to offer it, so I do want to move.
Yes, I'm all in for it 'cause I'm always eating, by the way, so yeah, so Mcclurg is the dining Hall. It's actually the 1st place that I physically enter. When I came to Suwannee. So there's a lot of great moments and memories attached to those places because it was the first time that I actually saw Mandy. You know, it was the first time.
It's the best time of his life.
Tim Neil
08:01:44 AM
McClurg & Dining: https://new.sewanee.edu/campus-life/dining/
Of course, my love chords always a pleasure, but I remember coming to Suwannee on my first day. You know my my host family came here and drove me to campus and then people were sitting in Mcclurg having the orientation. I assume an you know just entering that place and then seeing everyone congregating together and sharing the news. I was like my first impression of the school that I was in the right place in the sense of a community.
You know where I could sit at the table with people and actually have a great conversation and then time came. And then I realized that not only the students were the people that I was relating to, but also the workers. If you come to Mcclurg.
You know the person that is feeding you that is cooking for you. It's actually very relatable an they just come to you. They greet you, some of them hug you. You know pre covid times when we were able to hug each other still.
But yeah, it's just a community, and if I had, if I had to describe Mcclurg and awards, I would definitely say it's a family both for the moments we spend as a student community, but also from the workers that we get to, you know, create a relationship.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I still walk into Mcclurg when I'm on campus and recognize people when I was a student at Swanee.
Still a lot of me hate him, and those are the relationships that are worth investing in as a University. So Mandy, one of the questions I wanted to ask that this sort of was like a good segue into it was. What kind of support?
Our international students receiving through different departments and dining was one example that I was hoping that you could maybe talk about some of the different events that working with Carolina and others in the what sort of dietary restrictions is Swanee Dining able to meet just given that we do not contract our food? What's been your experience with working with Karoline and Chef Rick and Chef Carolina? Chef Rick and.
I think I actually think somebody might be better equipped to answer this question just because of his work with the Interfaith Advisory Council. But I will say that Chef Reagan, chef Caroline are complete icons and I love them Caroline recently, you just brought me. She went to an Asian market in a Huntsville and she brought me like a bag of frozen dumplings and like a bag of Rahman and I'm just.
Like she didn't even charge me for it. I was like, can I Venmo you and she's like no? And I'm like OK, thank you and so.
Maybe that's really dangerous that you just told everyone.
I know I'm so sorry, but that's that's how this is how Caroline is. She's delightful and we love her. But I'm going to throw this question over to somebody.
My experience with McLeod has been really good and as Mandy said, so I've been working with the Interface Advisory Council. I'm actually interning with them this semester and so our goal is to basically create a safe an inclusive environment for people who identify from different back. There are different religious backgrounds, ethical backgrounds, tradition backgrounds, or none of them at all. So you can be in 80s to be a member of the Interface Council. Or you can be a Buddhist or Muslim so.
You don't need to identify, particularly with something to be able to join the Interfaith Council. And so while we just recently while working with the Interfaith Council, which is released so needs first multifaith calendar, which recognizes all different religious and ethical traditions that are celebrated across the year that are present at Sony and it's a non exhaustive list, it's it's like updated almost weekly or daily, like as soon as I receive a new input, I put it in there.
Tim Neil
08:05:39 AM
Sewanee Interfaith Insta: https://www.instagram.com/sewaneeinterfaith/
And then we're going to go. So we we have a lot of different events that we do on those particular days with Sony Dining. When 20 dining looks at what we have and what are we trying to like do with it. So for example recently for Rosh Hashanah for the Jewish Festival, there was holla and we had a pop up tent outside where we made bread. All Jewish students at Swan even invited.
At my club, to make challah with them, and then they solved Hollywood honey, and so that was like a really good experience. November 2nd. It's the other Los Muertos, the All Saints Day, so we're going to be celebrating that along with Mick. Log again with the pop up. So there's just like different things that make loud constantly tries to. Do we have halal food like when available on request when we want to get it for students who have those dietary restrictions?
The vegan line is the amazed like it's so good an I do not actually know this until a while ago, but so when he has an A plus certification for vegan dining across dining halls in American colleges.
That's amazing, but it also totally makes sense.
Well, an it's it's. It's makes sense but is also impressive given the fact that we do everything in house.
That when I was a student, I went through the transition from Aremark to Swanee Dining. What that meant was we took on every single employee that used to be employed by Aramark's University employees.
We were able to control the quality of the food so much better that 80% of the lettuce and vegetables in swaney dining come from local farmers.
20% of our overall food comes from local farmers and I think that really is the epitome of community. When you hear colleges talking about Community, community, community.
How are they defining that? I mean, Sony is literally a place when you walk down University Ave.
Um, we will be the first to tell you there is a troubled history to Swanee we can. We can go into the Roberson project and talking about the great work that they're doing, I'm going to lob that up so if anyone wants to prepare an answer for that, but.
This is a place where when you walk past someone you say hello, you acknowledge their presence. That's literally a tradition of swannies the passing hello.
Um, but dealing with time. Does anyone want to just highlight the Roberson project and talk a little bit about it? Even if it's a small bit about what their work is on campus?
Tim Neil
08:09:08 AM
Roberson Project: https://new.sewanee.edu/roberson-project/
I can talk about and then I think Mandy can come at what time is please 'cause I think you yeah so. So basically it's a project that tries to understand the connections of the University and the institution of Suwannee with the historical past of slavery an it is a research project which means again bringing more people together to understand how the past worked in this institution that initially was created to promote.
Social segregation ideologies and white supremacy ideologies Ann.
You know, students come together, professors come together and they research basically the history of the University and then with their findings, the results of the research they share with the community. And we use that to promote a lot of dialogues on campus and a lot of events on campus to understand the real history of the University.
And I think Mendy, maybe you can mention the dialogue series in terms of the connection.
yes, only dialogue. Across difference of I was a dialogue ambassador last year and I think there was a few dialogues as part of the Robeson project I think or affiliated to it in some way about.
Tim Neil
08:10:15 AM
Dialogue Across Difference: https://new.sewanee.edu/campus-life/engaging/dialogue-across-difference/
The residence halls on campus that are named after Confederate generals and soldiers. So we all sat down. There was context provided and then we all kind of had a conversation about what it means to live in a Hall that was that has that history. So part of the Robeson project is having those conversations and.
Kind of seeing how we can move forward like while acknowledging it, but not kind of like.
Emphasizing it as much I guess.
Well, I think it's a good example of comprehensive exams research access to recruit on campus. Roberson Project is doing something that is the epitome of relevant.
To what we are as an institution.
Don't be fooled by the name of the University of the South, we are certainly a forward thinking place, one that is not immune to challenges, but when someone is trip and fall, there's someone there to say, hey, let's let's find a better way to not only talk about what just happened, but to find a better way to move forward as an institution. So Mandy, you are moving in this direction.
And tell me a little bit about comprehensive exams.
So comps comprehensive exams are the exams you take in. I think it depends on the Department. But for the English major it's.
Tim Neil
08:11:52 AM
Statement by the Board of Regents: https://new.sewanee.edu/news/university-takes-next-step-toward-equality-and-diversity/statement-by-the-board-of-regents/
This giant cumulative exam that we take in the spring around April.
But for English is like a four hour process. We just write all our essays. It's basically everything we learned during our time at Swanee and.
Yeah, and I think for the math major it starts your junior year and it has like three stages and politicks you spend it entire day writing it. So Lucas, I'm so sorry.
Um, but like I'm getting off easy just have to write a couple of essays on Shakespeare and whatnot, but it's it's a rite of passage, right? And people comp you after your exams. I don't know how we're going to do that during kovit. I guess socially distant.
But when you walk out of whichever building you're comping in the like, your friends who gather around it, and there's just celebration, and it's often really loud and occasionally overwhelming, so I might just walk like out the back door but.
It's definitely a rite of passage, and it's it's an accomplishment.
For your time with this one student.
I do want to emphasize for all of those listening, but it is just pass fail. It will not impact your your GPA.
Is different, you know, English is sort of your classic going in to take an exam, right? You're going to do some ideas or some, you know there's some short answers. There's long essays all of that, but it's based on four periods, correct?
It's five to six, I think now.
It's kind of. Yeah, it's gonna be great. It's gonna be so good.
And you're sort of given not unlimited time, but a lot of time to take this exam as a history major. For me it was writing a thesis and so half of our thesis was.
The anniversary came up yesterday on Halloween. You had to have half of your thesis written, which was a daunting task because of course everyone is waiting until like 2 weeks before to turn out 30 pages right? Just the casual, but this is the kind of preparation you're going to need for Graduate School and the kind of preparation that you're going to have sitting with your advisor. I need help figuring out the answers to this. How would you go about researching this? Because you're not.
Having to go and work with a teaching assistant or a graduate assistant for that work, you're going straight to the faculty. That's an added value point of who of the experience you're going to have in the in the classroom at 20, but also that person teaching you your lab is the is the faculty member, probably also teaching another Intro 101 site class, so they really are the ones that you're going to go to an end to talk about.
Does anyone want to add anything else before I move it along?
So we'll keep it in the academic sector and light Lucas, who's been your favorite professor at Swanee and why? And I'm going to get everyone to answer this question, so don't you worry. We'll go from Lucas to Mandy to somehow.
Oh my gosh, I had to pick one.
Right now at this moment, it's gonna be my new advisor because I just declare my majors actually, three weeks ago, I just declare my major, so I'll stay professional Mila Dragojevic at the politics Department. She teaches me a lot, not only you know about, she's my international therapist. You know, that's why she's mad. That's why she said she was like, you know, if you want to come to me to talk about academics, I'm here. But if you want to come to me to talk about personal issues, you can also come to me. So I see her.
Tim Neil
08:16:01 AM
Politics at Sewanee: https://new.sewanee.edu/programs-of-study/politics/
As kind of my friendship family in a way as well. So she is my favorite professor and she teaches, you know, just for FY I she teaches politics.
Political violence in Latin America, which is something very relatable to the city that I come from Rio, and I think we found the connection in topics to create this this relationship.
Yeah, and she did just lead a wonderful debate. A civil debate between you? Want to mention that really quickly?
Tim Neil
08:17:26 AM
Sewanee Debate Union Insta: https://www.instagram.com/sewaneedebate/
The Instagram which you can access it there.
Yes, but she was. The moderate are well here at the one you have the Swanee Debate Union, which is a club for people who likes debating and developing speeches. We bother and understanding how they can better present themselves in public. And she was the moderate are of a session that they had. I think last week right? Yeah, last week about the theme was.
Should they West be the global leader in the world, you know?
Maybe favorite professor. Let's see if you surprised me.
Again, it's just really, really hard. I have so many good relationships with most of my professors and I basically know the entire faculty at Swanee by this point.
But always my answer Doctor Bartee Alberdi, he's the chair of the psychology Department. He's the reason I became a psych minor 'cause I was like, how else am I going to take more classes with Doctor Party if I don't have a psych minor?
Tim Neil
08:18:06 AM
Psychology at Sewanee: https://new.sewanee.edu/programs-of-study/psychology/
So he's great. We recently just had a call on Friday and he was basically making like garlic bread in his kitchen and I was like onsum with him and I.
But yeah, he's one of those people who.
And so he was the one I went to whenever I had any sort of issue. Whenever I was struggling with.
Either the like research methods, bit of psychology, 'cause that's not where my brain works.
Or like I send him poems, I write just to get feedback 'cause he's also interested in the literary side of things. So it's just like an all round fun give and take relationship. And we also would just like coffee beans as well. So that was a nice way of connecting. But yeah.
Anuarite
08:19:17 AM
Greetings to all our panelists! A question to Mandy, what's been your experience studying a major as well as double minoring? How mentally demanding has it been?
I am actually a coffee freak. I love coffee many while I have you. One question didn't come in specifically for you, which said what has been your experience studying a major as well as double minoring? How mentally demanding has it been?
Oh boy, I wouldn't say it's been mentally demanding until like this semester when we've sort of moved into the more seminar and higher level courses.
Because there's a lot of crossovers within the fields that I'm studying in, so a lot of my gender studies minor is comprised of basically one psychology class and maybe like one politics class. I took us to Gen. Ed and.
Couple of English classes so they all kind of feed off of each other so I don't have to take like 6 classes specifically in gender studies and six classes specifically in psychology. Plus the eight or nine I have to take for English because.
Like they all again, their cross listed gender studies English classes across this it does gender studies and vice versa. And psychology is in there somewhere.
It's basically it's almost the same as double majoring, although I can't even think that it's easier than double majoring 'cause it's less of a commitment and I don't have to do comps in either psych or gender studies. I'm only coming in English and the rest of it is just like if I get it, I get it and if I end up next semester feeling like I can't do the rest of the gender studies minor. Although it's one seminar class I'm going to do it, but if I reach a point where I was like, no thanks, I can just drop it.
Like it's fine, so yeah, it's fairly easy. I would. Well, I wouldn't. I don't know if I would suggest doing it, but it's doable. And if you're interested you can certainly do it.
There are couple of things. One thank you for submitting that question. Please feel free to submit other questions if you want to be for everyone or just one specific person, please ask questions, chat them into the chat feature.
And yes, an important distinction there is that you only comp in majors. You do not comp with a minor, so a lot of students in depth double minoring. 14% of campus will double major, so it's a small percentage in double majoring somehow.
Favorite guesser and why?
That's so hard, because like.
Tim Neil
08:22:05 AM
Neuroscience at Sewanee: https://new.sewanee.edu/programs-of-study/neuroscience/
I have all my professors like Doctor Kmac. She is the neuroscience professor that I've had like both my neuroscience courses and fall semester, second semester and this is my third semester. I'm not taking anymore science courses right now and she's also my advisor. She's also in the psychology Department, so she's my advisor for the neuro psych thing that I'm doing with my psych major. And so it has been so great like I did a research with her over the summer.
During Kovid an it was such an amazing experience, like a taught me so much about research and how like neuroscience works. An how do you like actually could make good hypothesis and then test them and then develop how you do like.
She told me science and love me. How did a good science, good lab Sciences and she's just so amazing like she always checks in about how I'm doing. She would like occasionally send me an email and then be like hey hop on a zoom call. We should like chat and see how you're doing and so we do that like we fix like Wednesday is now like Wednesday at like 7:30 or 8:30. We just like as soon as I'm done with my day and then I would just hop on the phone with her at 8:30 and we put either like sometimes till like 930 sometimes to like 10 because.
She's done with like dinner and everything with the family and I'm like close to being done with my homework or if I have like it later so I like don't take a lot of time, but just like I update her but how I'm doing what I'm planning to do next and I see guidance from her. She's connected with me with like so many different of her like colleagues that she had in her Graduate School and Mount Sinai up there in the Northeast. Or just like any colleagues that she has.
She introduced me to like Doctor Thomas Reppert. It was like the new cognitive neural neuro scientist at Sony, and so that was amazing and it's just. It's just amazing. Like yeah, she's.
Oh what you're saying, because this is a common question I get asked.
You can do science at a liberal arts college.
Yes, you can do very hard science at this liberal arts college.
Late and you can do research outside of the Sciences.
At a liberal arts college.
Go ahead look yes, you look like you were ready to jump.
My I think invention, like you can do science and research. I can speak from IGS perspective. We actually have a bill of fellowship on campus, which is a fellowship that pays you. It's specifically for social Sciences, so so people who are on this call thinking about majoring any of the social science we can actually apply to this fellowship. And Suwannee literally pays you to go to another country to do research in any topic that you would like to do so. If you want to do.
Gender studies in Nigeria. You know someone is going to find you to look into that if you want to know about LGB tikku rights in Latin America, you can travel to Argentina, Brazil, Chile and then Suwannee will also find you to do that.
Sorry, is that what live Libya did in Ghana?
Yes, exactly so she was looking into women's rights and how that is related into the Constitution of Ghana.
And she did that, yeah, and she was, you know, funded by so wanted to do research. And what I really like about IGS as well is that part of the requirement to graduate. You actually have to study abroad. So like how cool is that? You have to, you know, they literally send you to another country to learn a new language. And to, you know, just learn about different culture and then you come back to Suwanee and you graduate.
Coasters thank you for submitting a question sample of the panel is can't see the question so there there he is surprised by this. So somehow demanding is having double major and how much time do you spend everyday study?
Kostas
08:25:55 AM
A question to Sambhav. How demanding is having double major and how much time he spends everyday for studying?
Oh OK, double majoring is hard.
But it's not impossible and you can do it if you put yourself to it.
Tim Neil
08:26:06 AM
IGS at Sewanee: https://new.sewanee.edu/programs-of-study/international-and-global-studies/
This semester has been really busy, but I don't think it's because of because I'm double majoring.
But usually I get done with like homework at like 1:30 AM or 2:00 AM, but that's not because I'm double majoring. That's because I am doing other stuff on campus that takes up a lot of time and I just get so busy.
And I also like to be really busy because it keeps me occupied and then I feel like I'm doing something with all my time and I'm not wasting my time.
So yeah, but that metric is hard, but not impossible.
Plus my meters are like so finance in psychology are like really different, but the beauty is they seem different at Sony. They're not because I met with Doctor David Ernest. He is professor of psychology in Industrial Organization and so he I met with him and meeting with him with such a great experience because he told me and he basically opened my eyes how finance and business.
Tim Neil
08:27:19 AM
Finance at Sewanee: https://new.sewanee.edu/programs-of-study/finance/
Combines with psychology and the Fusion of it is like just so amazing that I was like. OK, well I'm doing this. That's what I'm going to do with my life now I'm going to become.
I mean if I choose to go towards this psychology side of things after graduation, I will definitely go into industrial psychology, industrial organizational psychology. But if I go to what's finance, I would of course like go be a financial analyst or.
Instead of a business, because I want to have a business of my own.
A couple more questions have come in. Can you share something about your best experience in your first year? It's one.
Salifu
08:27:50 AM
Thank you for this great event! Can you share something about your best experience when you were freshmen?
I'm just saying like fresh first year is just hard for everyone, so I think that's why we're all a little bit struggling with what to say because when I look back on my first year I was just like.
They were really good bits, but they were all. It was just like a kind of an amalgamation of homesickness and trying to find my place here and wondering like is there a place and so on and so forth, but.
I think one of the best things to come away. No, I have the class my first year. It was a talk in class. We talked about Lord of the Rings, Dean Bruce Potter.
When you talk about this.
This was great. It was. It was the class that convinced me that I was exactly where I needed to be, 'cause I would always come back to it. I'd be like, oh, everything might seem a little bit bleak right now, but at least I'm in this token class at least. Dean Bruce is bringing in Donuts on Frodo and Bilbo's birthday, you know? So.
Yeah, so that's my answer. Some of sorry I hijacked your time, sorry.
No, you're fine. I'm glad you answered that. I would have never been able to talk about being Bruce bringing in Donuts for birthdays. Fictional character birth is at that.
But yeah, what I was going to say is my post. Your experience was actually really great.
I don't know why I still have not been home sick. I've been it's only for like 1 1/2 years. I still don't feel homesick. I guess I just feel very comfortable being it Sony that it itself feels like home and I don't feel like I am away from where I'm supposed to be or I feel homesick. I'm going back home this winter break and I'm really excited to go back home, but that doesn't mean that I like don't think that Sony is home for me and so that's why I've never felt homesick while being less money. And it was a really good experience because you get to meet new people from different.
Cultures and backgrounds an it's just not about international students, but also like domestic students in the US. And then you learn about their experiences in their cultures and how the United States like just operates like the cultures here work. And because.
It said that the United States is a melting pot of different cultures.
And so it's just so good to be able to see that and learn from it. Plus FIP. As you can see on the screen was a really good experience, so FIP stands for finding your place at Sony. It also kind of stands for first year program, so it's like FP and so.
Tim Neil
08:31:11 AM
FYP at Sewanee: https://new.sewanee.edu/programs-of-study/finding-your-place/
Essentially what it does is immerse you within 10 days into everything around Sony and Sony itself, and its history, and it has to offer what it had, what it should have. Put it like just everything that there is to learn about Sony so that you can find your own place in the vast domain that we have at Sony and choose which thing you want to pursue.
And this is amazing. Definitely do FIP.
Lucas, do you have anything else you wanna have?
Purity
08:31:32 AM
Hello! I'm Purity from Ghana.
Yes, I think I would say the trip that we took to Nashville to watch the baseball game. I think that's that was the moment that I made most of my friends. I actually met Menzes brother Wolf.
That was a terrible decision.
At that gay man he is, you know, a really great friend of mine as well. Both him and his girlfriend and.
Yeah, that moment I I truly felt as I as I was going to emergently American culture. You know, I felt really Americano.
Tim Neil
08:31:56 AM
OGC at Sewanee: https://new.sewanee.edu/offices/university-offices/office-of-global-citizenship/
In one sense, because I was like going to a baseball game, eating chicken wings, getting French fries, you know, getting my getting my fingers sticky with like chicken sauce and barbecue sauce. Watching a baseball game that I did not have any clue of how the rules worked.
Eniola
08:32:15 AM
How do you come up with the combination of major and minor courses
But it was just a fun moment and I realized I was in the in the right place with the right people. So definitely that baseball game.
That's great that baseball.
Yeah, none of us understood what happened. What was happening at all? Would we just there for the company and the food Ann?
It was all confusing for us.
As as it should because it was it was. It was forgettable worries for a moment and just focus on this game.
Uh, in that game was sponsored by the Office of Global that not the game that the trip was funded by Office of Global Citizenship, which I am a part of, and I just put in a plug for their office. Their incredible Abby, Andrea, Scott, Marcus and Shawnee all makeup that office. They both help with international student support, legal work and also for.
Sambhav Bansal
08:33:21 AM
Thanks for asking that Eniola, you are at liberty to choose any combination of major and minors you like!
Study abroad as well. So there's a question in the locate asked. How do you come up with the combination of majors and minors? Does anyone want to like just quickly touch on like how do you?
What are the logistics to declaring your major?
It's pretty simple. It's not a trick question, but.
Well, you get a form from the registrar's office. You go to the chair of the Department that you wanna major it and you're just like, hi, can you sign this for me? I have this for, well, you gotta get an advisor to advise you within the Department.
I guess I'd combination really pick and choose like I came here.
With the intention to double major in gender studies in English, but then I wanted Psych as a minor, so I had to drop one of them down to a minor an it like.
I guess I don't know. I feel like it's doable.
But also be conscious of time commitment, 'cause I think I was lucky because all of mine kind of just muddled together, but if they're really different and you have to take six separate classes for.
You know different fields of study then that might prove a little bit difficult.
OK, one question. I want to get to really quickly and we don't have to spend long talking about it. Is All Saints. It is a huge Chapel right on the center of campus. 20 is an Episcopal institution. Somehow we talked a little bit about the Interfaith Advisory Council, how religious is swine?
I don't think it's religious at all to be very honest. I mean not in the traditional sense that you would expect for it to be like as like people said that it's in Episcopal School also is like the biggest thing. That's one he has right on Central campus. I mean, I don't think it's the biggest thing, so when he has one, he has a lot of big things. But it's like right on Central Campus is like the.
Most recognizable think of Sony, but so one is not that religious or I would say I'm not exposed that because it's not demanded that you be religious, that you're at Sony. People who are religious find a place that Sony, but people who are not religious also find the place. It's funny and there's like a number of faculty, an staff that I know that are like agnostics and atheists and everything. And so everybody is welcome here and that's why the Interfaith Council exists so that we make sure that everybody is welcome here.
And that they feel welcome. And then they feel like they belong here.
Tim Neil
08:35:49 AM
All Saints: https://new.sewanee.edu/campus-life/believing/all-saints-chapel/
Anna
08:36:20 AM
Sambhav and Mandy, can you touch on the Organization for Cross-Cultural Understanding?
My child Oh my God, I love to see you.
Um, oh God where do I start some upstart? And then I'll tell you, I'll add more.
Tim Neil
08:36:57 AM
OCCU on insta: https://www.instagram.com/occusewanee/?hl=en
Sure, sure sure sure I can start so the organization for cross cultural standing. If you're international student, technically you're already a member. You don't need to sign up, but we also go to the activities fair so that people can sign up and get involved. And then we have weekly meetings where everybody just comes together an it's like a really fun time. You make friends, you make like deep relationships with everybody. And then we also talk about how we need to make an impact on campus and how we can make sure that.
We are building stronger community foundations and resources available for anybody who identifies as an international student or even is just interested in cross cultural affairs, because that's a mission statement that we just want to raise awareness about cross cultural affairs that exist and make sure that there's not the differences. Do not create divides, but instead we bridge them and so.
To be able to bridge those differences, we have different events on campus we have dialogues, we have panels. We also fun events. We have also seen potluck. That's like tradition, yearly, tradition that we have where people from different backgrounds and cultures make their like food like own food and then they bring it and then they share that food and stories. We have folk tales night. We just had that on October 30th where people brought scary folk tales from their traditions. And we made soup.
We had Hungarian soup and we had Egyptian soup and so it's just a whole vibe. You get to be really academic annual like fight, like talking about how you can make things better and how there's like. So much stuff that you can do with bridging divides and all of that stuff when you do the dialogues and panels. And then we also have a lot of fun because then we have events where we are socializing and just sharing stories and sharing events that they've done. Or if you have a dance event coming up so we're going to do cultural dances and stuff.
So it's just all encompassing of everything that exists.
I will say that OCC U is the proudest thing I've done at Suwannee and it's.
In in a few words, I think it's what brought me my community at Swanee, I think.
Being an international student sometimes can be a little bit isolating an having a core group that's you, know full of people who share similar experiences, like you can talk about what like walking through customs while you're entering the US is like and everyone will be like Oh yeah, I like that one dude looks suspicious and I was like not him that not suspicious, but like slightly evil.
So I think what does he see you I was president of it for two years, sophomore and junior and.
Through the all the events that we did, the different initiatives initiatives that we implemented it kind of.
And I feel like it gave us like a purpose and it brought us all together and it cemented us as the international community. Like we had a place at Swanee and we were like this is we're here. We're going to be loud. We're going to tell you what we need and we're going to try and make an impact on the campus in a way that helps everybody.
Yeah, maybe I can add like the other side of OCC, which is the global home.
We're in the global home right now, right?
Yes, I am right now. You see all these flags in the background, but how we live here? That's how we roll.
Tim Neil
08:40:50 AM
Global Home on insta: https://www.instagram.com/theglobalhomesewanee/
Well, the global home has a very similar mission and vision to OCC, which is like bringing intercultural awareness and awareness about the cultural differences on campus. But we are a theme house annex one. Yeah, theme house is basically a dorm like a house that you can live with people that share.
Tim Neil
08:41:08 AM
Theme Houses at Sewanee: https://new.sewanee.edu/campus-life/living/residential-life/theme-houses/
Deemo
08:41:17 AM
A question to Mandy, How easy is it to find opportunities to get involved into creative writing on a professional level as a Sewanee student?
Kind of mission that choose here so you can choose. You can pick to live in a dorm in a regular dorm, or you can pick to live in the same house which you have. the French house you have the Spanish house, you have the Russian house and you have the global home which was made for, you know any culture, every culture at any moment. So right now we have eight students living in the House from 6 different nationalities. So we have people from Russia.
Who won the China baywest? Brazil? And I think these are all, yeah, all nationalities. This is our first year and I totally recommend everyone who's watching to go on our Instagram account and see what we've been doing.
And we have a lot of events in partnership with OCC which you know sometimes it's hard to distinguish who's who 'cause.
People are in both places at the same time, so everyone is welcome. That's what I have to say.
I feel like that's a good problem to have though, because.
Now there's two of two things that are international student focus when before it used to. Just be like OCC you anything international related, you go to see you now you're like oh we can go to the global home. They have a backyard or OCC you want to collaborate. So it's.
Yeah, I think that's that's, uh, that's a great problem to have, and I'm so glad we have it.
I think you touch at appointment did that in terms of support. You can be really lonely during your freshman year. An we've been getting a lot of people at our house from the freshman class that just stop by in the House because, you know, they feel lonely and they want to have a conversation. So besides being a house for promoting, for promoting cultural awareness, I think we've become a place of reference where students are coming just to chat because you're feeling lonely and they want to navigate.
This cultural differences, and that's what I you know. I think this is the purpose of the house as well and.
Kostas
08:43:07 AM
That is great! It sounds an amazing place.
Yeah, and that's part of the reason I think Sarah Morehead Ski, who used to be in Marcus is position and I pushed so hard for a space on campus for international students to congregate too. Because I see you can be like an amorphous blob that you're like. Who do I contact? How do I get there? But since the global home is actually a house and you can find it on account of all the flags that are sticking to the window, you know you know where it is once you pass by it. So yeah, it's I think it was important to have a central space.
That could welcome international students whenever they're walking by strings.
I think that's absolutely the truth. Is physical space for students to gather is so important, just like we do for All Saints Chapel. We need to have a place for students of different cultural backgrounds. Even if you're a dual citizen living abroad. You know if you're not technically an international student, I would imagine the global homes going to welcome you.
So many, I'm not sure if you saw, there's a question that came in for you. Feel free to chat it in or you can answer it out loud. Do you see the question there?
Yeah, so opportunities to get involved in creative writing professional level, so I've taken so for the creative writing certificate you need three classes and a literature class. I have taken 5 creative writing classes 56.
Two for Note 5 creative writing classes today to cross all genres, so it's just a good way to work with the professors who are teaching it, and they are usually good with providing you with opportunities to work on a professional level. I went to a playwriting conference and play writings, not even my first choice of genre, but I got to go to Atlanta for a fully paid conference last summer. It was amazing. Not this past summer, the summer before.
And so they are there to guide you, but I would recommend like once you have the poems, once you have the place, once you have the short stories, go on submittable and just start submitting. Your going to get rejections. I get like rejections daily but now and again you'll get one. It's like you know this wasn't trash. Will publish it, so yeah.
It's a process. Email me. I'll send you my email if you want to know more.
Mandy Tu
08:45:42 AM
Hi all! My email is tump0@sewanee.edu :)
Thank you well, I do want to be respectful of time because I told you all there was only going to be an hour and already over that. So I've dropped in my email. But I do want to ask my last question.
And I think it's a good all encompassing while I prepare for this. If you guys could each drop in your email address if you feel comfortable, Lucas and some of.
Sambhav Bansal
08:46:11 AM
Hey, My email is Sambhav.Bansal@sewanee.edu
Gonna be your lasting legacy at Swanee.
Lucas Carvalho
08:46:21 AM
Hi people! Find me at carvalm0@sewanee.edu :)
And feel free to say that you are still working on it, but what do you think? As of right now, obviously some of you are. You're all at different parts in your sweaty experience. So what do you think? Or what do you hope it will be?
Any you kinda talked about it a little bit with those DC so I'm going to follow you first.
Oh OK, alright, I think my legacy is going to definitely be the revital 8 revitalization. I think I provided to a CC you because when I got it, it was kind of in shambles. But now we've grown into a community and I'm very grateful that Sambhav and Scarlet and all are taking.
You know the helm running with it and also being a small part of getting the global home off the ground, which Lucas and face are doing an amazing job with.
And I guess the paintings we got like for in the library more visual representation. So I guess I hope my legacy is going to be.
Linh
08:47:49 AM
Thank you so much for such an amazing event!
That I help Swanee become more a bit more inclusive than it was before I got here, and especially with the focus on, you know, international students and like helping them find helping them realize that you know, like their voices matter. And just because you're here as an international student doesn't mean you can't. Demand of Suwannee just as much as the demands of you because I feel like our international students contribute something really special to the campus.
But sometimes I guess like it's easy to get the international student conversation lost in the midst of a lot of other conversations. So I hope I helped too, like.
Make sure that that conversation doesn't get lost in the model.
I would attest to the fact that you have.
Some hover Lucas. Do you have anything that you want to mention about what you might think or hope to be your legacy?
Luke
08:48:38 AM
Thank you.
Kostas
08:48:55 AM
A question to all the panelists. What about the future? Do you want to live and work in the United States after graduation for Sewanee or return in your country and work there?
OK yeah, so well be beyond. Besides the global home which has been support to the international community, I think the way I like to describe myself at C1 is like a translator of frontiers, right? Like a translator of boundaries and walls? Because it's not every day that you know, you find somebody from the favelas of Rio de slumps.
In a discussion about you know politics or economics or anything you know that is happening on campus, and I think it's needed that we have a diverse range of perspectives in the discussion, right? We're talking about not only not asking for permission, just being Democratic in the sense of being a democracy, you know, listen to people and bringing different perspectives to the table. So I think I bring a perspective that lacks.
In so many spaces throughout the world, which is, you know, marginalized people back in their countries that have no voice. An find somehow a place.
In a great power, such as they want us to speak up and learn how to be vocal about their demands and point out things that could be change for better so.
My legacy will definitely be, you know, a translator of frontiers. Both translating the American culture to my Brazilian peers, but also translating the Brazilian culture to my American friends and trying to bridge that those differences and present in a way that is not stereotypical. Or you know.
Um and I did. If there was a question from Kostas from Greece who was asking each of you, so if you wouldn't mind just chatting in your answer as sampov answers this question, what do you think your legacy is going to be?
Pelumi
08:51:09 AM
A question to all the panelists. How are clubs like in Sewanee and how do they help you as a student?
To be very honest, I have no clue because my legacy. I feel like it's kind of on the same lines as Mandy's is, I just want to make sure that all international students an like anybody else from different cultural backgrounds or experiences, or even if you have differing views or just everybody. Yes, one, he feels welcome and they feel like they belong, it's money and that they really meant to be here.
Mandy Tu
08:51:25 AM
Since I'm graduating in May, my next step is getting a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing so hopefully that will be in the U.S. I'm going to see how things go after that!
And that they, and that's when he provides into institutional support for them. And so I am trying to work towards it. I am the intern this semester with the Office of Civic Engagement. We're working on making some money and more religiously inclusive. I am also a member on the Sony Academic diversity cohort. So over there we aim to increase faculty that are more diverse from modavis backgrounds in the hiring process.
I I'm also a Proctor, so I also like really care about building community in my res Hall an making sure that everybody stays, save everybody's responsible. Everybody is like working towards actually developing into an adult away from their family where they don't necessarily have their parents taking care of them. And then they have to do it all by themselves and so just helping them move through that process. So I feel like my legacy would be the impacts that I guess I would make while doing these things.
Two individual lives if not.
Lucas Carvalho
08:52:29 AM
Hi Kostas! Thanks for your question. I'd love to get some professional experience or maybe go to a grad school in the US before returning to Brazil. But I do have in mind that Europe is also a place I'd like to have some experience. The future is open - but we do have a Career Center to help us with these questions as well! Link here https://new.sewanee.edu/careers/
To a larger perspective as of yet.
Mandy Tu
08:52:32 AM
Pelumi, clubs are a great way to meet new people and an amazing avenue to take what you have learned in your classes and translate that into an event. It's basically knowledge in action while building community--an integral part of your Sewanee experience.
Well, I will say that each of you touched on this idea of leaving something behind that provides for a more inclusive Suwannee. I would argue that your very presence is doing that already and so I want to thank you for multitudes of things. First being us wanting. Thank you for representing Swanee so well and thank you for getting up so early.
Nistha
08:53:09 AM
Thank you so much for this amazing event!
Kostas
08:53:11 AM
Thank you so much for this amazing event. We learnt a lot of things about this amazing college.
On a Sunday morning in Celani, I know that we were not able to get to all of your questions. Thank you for being with us.
Having less enjoy your Sunday and if your questions weren't answered, feel free to gather the emails of Mandy Sobbin. Lucas and I will drop mine in as well so thanks everyone.
Thank you everyone. Have a great Sunday.
Anuarite
08:53:53 AM
Thank you all for this amazing event!
Kamilla
08:53:54 AM
Thank you so much for this informative panel! The Sewanee international community is amazing and very welcoming, and I hope all of us (prospective students) can be a part of it soon!
Anna
08:53:55 AM
Thank you so much for your time!
Cece
08:53:56 AM
Thank you!
Pelumi
08:53:57 AM
Thank you so much for this event!
Abood
08:53:58 AM
Thank you all so much
Rafaella
08:54:20 AM
Thank you all!!!
Lucas Carvalho
08:54:30 AM
Thank you for joining us! Have a great Sunday :)
We wanted everything everything.
Tim Neil
08:54:41 AM
Thank you all!
Tim Neil
08:54:47 AM
international@sewanee.edu
Salifu
08:55:11 AM
Very grateful!