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HoW Ep.4 The Julia Griffith Show · The Wesley Word

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Wesley Word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi everyone, I'm Bailey Meehan, and this week on Humans Wesley, I'm joined by Julia Griffith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Julia, welcome to the show.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thanks, Bailey.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for having me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, Julia, can you start by introducing yourself?
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  SPEAKER_01: Hi, everyone, I'm Julia.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a freshman health science major from Summerville, South Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_00: Great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so Julia, what is your favorite theme park ride?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, definitely the Fury at Carowinds.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is incredible.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's terrifying, but incredible.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a great roller coaster.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you could be famous for something, what would you want to be famous for?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I feel like I talk a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, like something that involves lots of talking, I think that could definitely be something I'd be famous for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like a TV personality or something like that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Something along those lines.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just where I can talk all the time, and that's what I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you happen to have a uh a bad habit that you would like to break?
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  SPEAKER_01: I do bite my nails.
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  SPEAKER_01: I bite and pick at my nails, which is really rough because I like to paint them, but then the paint's gone in like three days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which gives you an excuse to paint them again.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, I guess so.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, what is your favorite restaurant in Clemson?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, restaurant.
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  SPEAKER_01: I guess your pie.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't really go out to eat that much because I have my meal plan and I just go to Schletter all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I think restaurant-wise, it'd be your pie or like Moes or Chipotle.
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  unknown: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something that's in within walking distance of you downtown?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Never leave campus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, what is your favorite Clemson sporting event that's not football?
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  SPEAKER_01: Not football.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I guess baseball.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, not baseball.
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  SPEAKER_01: What am I saying?
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  SPEAKER_01: Basketball.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've only ever been to like a basketball game, but the Duke game was super fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: I went this year and it was interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Basketball is really interesting because uh everyone's in such a small space and you can hear everyone yell stupid stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Always fun.
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  unknown: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um you mentioned you're from Somerville, South Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you consider Somerville part of Charleston?
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  SPEAKER_01: That is a touchy subject.
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  SPEAKER_01: It depends.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, okay, if I'm talking to someone from South Carolina, I'm gonna say Somerville and that's not Charleston.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if they're from like Boston or somewhere and they have no idea the area, like Charleston, is it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because they're not gonna know what Somerville is.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I was curious if people from Somerville uh got offended being lumped in with Charleston or something.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not really offended.
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  SPEAKER_01: I feel like it's the other way around.
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  SPEAKER_01: People from Charleston are like, oh, Somerville's not Charleston.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: Stop telling people that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, whatever, it's fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and Somerville is is uh growing pretty fast, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I feel like when I was in high school, they were opening like a new high school like every year in Somerville.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um do you do you notice anything about that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's lots of traffic everywhere you go.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we've had I think like 10 elementary schools open.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not 10, that's dramatic, but a lot since I've been in school.
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  SPEAKER_01: And my high school that I went to was the newest one, and I think they might be starting another one, but I'm not sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: We get lots of growth.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, what do you miss most about Somerville when you're here in Clemson?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, it's a restaurant called Nukes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Have you ever heard of Nukes?
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  SPEAKER_00: I have not.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like Panera, but like 10 times better.
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  SPEAKER_01: They have soup, pizza, sandwiches.
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  SPEAKER_01: So good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I crave all their food every time I leave Somerville.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll have to check it out sometime.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um you said you're a health science major?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but you haven't always been a health science major, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That was a recent change.
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  SPEAKER_01: I yeah, I mean, I feel like everyone knows.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was a biomajor last semester, like first semester of my freshman year, hated every second of it, couldn't wait to get out.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now here I am.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love my classes now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, except for biology, but it's the last semester, so I'll get through it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, what's what's the big difference there, uh, biology versus health science?
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  SPEAKER_01: So I wanted to go to like physical therapy or occupational therapy school, so you don't really need like all like the cell biology, organic chemistry, microbiology that you get out of bio, and they're just hard, and I don't want to take them if I don't have to.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I get to take like interesting causes that I like instead.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, so just to elaborate on that, you um want to be like a physical therapist or yeah, I actually I thought that, and then I realized like last week that I'm more into occupational, but it's very similar.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to work with like children with disabilities and like yeah, just children that aren't, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, disability children with disabilities, like learn to adapt to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and what led you to want to do that?
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  SPEAKER_01: I actually had occupational therapy when I was four, and it was like for my hands, I was terrible, like bad.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I loved my occupational therapist.
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  SPEAKER_01: Her name was Miss Katie, and I since then wanted to be like her.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome, that's really inspiring.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hear that you're a PAL leader too, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I PAL for um Chem 1010.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I guess for anyone who doesn't know, can you explain what a PAL leader is?
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's basically like I've taken Chem 1010 and I got an A in it last semester.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the semester I attend a Chem 1010 section, like take notes like a normal student, but like I'm not getting granted for it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then every Monday and Wednesday are my session times, I hold kind of like hosted review sessions for the students, give them a worksheet to work through, and it's like with group work if that makes sense, and kind of encourage them to work together and like teach each other, but yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I assume um people in Chem Ten are also freshmen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that an interesting kind of teaching fellow freshmen?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's a little strange.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have a few that are also like repeating it, so they're sophomores, and I have one junior, and I'm just like, I am 19 and you're a lot older than me.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they actually, I mean, it's not really like a teacher per se.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's more of a hey, I'm here to help you kind of thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's not too awkward, but sometimes it's a little weird.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you like teaching?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you like helping people out?
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  SPEAKER_01: I do, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I always tutored in high school.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like that was something I did a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was in a lot of like honor societies that I had to do it for.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I really love that aspect of like tutoring and helping people out and giving them like another way to like look at things.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and you just rushed, right?
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I did.
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  SPEAKER_01: I joined Pi Fi.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um we have we have a few Pi Fi members in Wesley, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey Ven, um, Bren.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what made you want to rush?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um honestly, I was just really looking for like another, like I already had Wesley, which I really love, but just like another group of supportive people so I could like balance, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't really know.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just I was really interested in it, and formal rush scared the living daylights out of me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I did not want to go through it, and I was like, I'll take my chance with COP.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I that's what I did.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes, that was gonna be my next question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is uh it's a little bit different rushing in the spring as opposed to the fall, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: I literally I went to like one thing, hung out with some of the girls for like two hours, and that was it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was all I did.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was so much less terr scary than normal rush.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you think it's it's harder to get into a sorority in the spring than it is in the fall?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I it depends because like only a few sororities participate in the spring, and they're pretty much looking for people, so I don't think it's crazy difficult.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't really know, but the fall is such a lot more people, and there's also more sororities participating, so it depends on like what you're looking for, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so just you know, you haven't been in very long, but um, would you recommend Greek life to other people?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, it's a really great way to meet people, and like obviously there's lots of really fun events you can go to, so if you're looking for that aspect of college, I think it's a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we've been kind of bouncing around uh all these topics that you're you know kind of just starting or just new because you're a freshman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh you just got here this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: So do you like um living on campus?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you like uh being a new student here at Clemson?
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  SPEAKER_01: I do.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have so many things going on, which I like, but it's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like you've heard it go from here to there to here.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I love being in college, though.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't really do too much in high school, so it's a really big difference for me, but I really enjoy like being around different people all the time and just like exploring everything I possibly can.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, do you like living on campus?
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I love being on campus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Being able to wake up at 7:45 from 8 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: is a glorious thing that I will so much miss next year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I I remember second semester freshman year, especially being probably one of the happiest I've ever been because um once you get to know everyone uh and kind of find your place, then you live within walking distance of all your friends.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I can just go anywhere, anytime I want, and everyone's always there.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like I'll never have that again, I guess, but it's really great right now.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: Have you gotten tired of eating in the dining hall yet?
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: I love the dining hall.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, that is my favorite thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will go, I will eat, I will spend hours just sitting in there doing homework.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna miss it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't think I could ever get tired of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's your favorite dining hall?
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  SPEAKER_01: Schletter, hands down.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: Never go wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's so good.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think is great about Schletter?
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, they have better ice cream flavors and dessert, first of all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Second of all, the pizza has so much better.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I just feel like they have more variety.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know, food's just better.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: Has there anything been anything so far about college that surprised you that you weren't expecting coming in?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I feel like the amount of free time and not free time at like the same time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because like some days I'm sitting and I'm like, I got nothing to do, like no homework, no assignments, it kind of freaks me out because I'm like, what am I missing?
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  SPEAKER_01: And then like the next day I'm like crazy busy.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I guess just like the fluctuation.
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  SPEAKER_01: I expected to be busy a lot more than I am.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I am busy, but I don't just like the timing is kind of weird for me sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you talked about how you, you know, gotten involved with a bunch of things already just as a freshman.
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  SPEAKER_00: But are there any things you're looking to get involved in that you haven't gotten a chance to do so yet?
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't know.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: That is a good question.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I've always like, even in high school, I never did it, but I've always been interested in student government, but I don't think I really have the time for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But maybe one day that's something I'll look into.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was I love CUSG.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we've had you know quite a few Wesley members, so I'm sure they'd be uh love to give you some pointers on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know you you don't really have, I guess, anything to compare it to.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but do you think uh the whole like COVID kind of pandemic thing that we're still in uh has kind of neg negatively affected your your college experience so far?
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  SPEAKER_00: Anything you feel like you're missing out on that a normal freshman would get to do?
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like I'm not missing anything now.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think the biggest thing was just like touring season, like before college, not being able to come tour.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean it worked out for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm happy here and I feel like I'm getting to do everything I wanted to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I guess maybe maybe the the better question is do you feel like you missed out on anything at the end of high school?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, yeah, I did, but it's like the kind of stuff that I don't really think about now that I'm here, if that makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like last year I was like, what the heck?
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  SPEAKER_01: This is awful, I hate it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But now that like I'm getting my normal college experience, I don't really like it doesn't really bother me as much as it used to.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: So how did you uh find out about Wesley?
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: What brought you to Wesley?
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  SPEAKER_01: Zach Raven.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think everyone knows that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Zach Raven, who he's a senior, he's graduating, which is so sad.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: But he's my brother's best friend.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: So he like told me before I came.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Julia, you have to come at least once.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna make you come.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I came once and I've come back like ever since then.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, that's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So do you participate in the Freshly?
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  SPEAKER_01: Freshly is the love of my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love everyone, just like people that you know are going through like the same thing as you like college is new, and it's just new friends that are there for you and have like a deeper connection with through like faith and just being together every week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, I think freshly is it's probably one of the most important ministries we do as Wesley to reach out to new people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um what's been your favorite thing you've gotten to do with Freshly or the favorite like discussion you've had, or what's your favorite part so far?
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um my favorite part is actually we're doing it again tomorrow.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: Every now and then, like we just have Saturday morning coffee days where we go, usually to Grace downtown, and we just like sit, we we say we're gonna study, but we usually just end up talking for like the three hours that we're there.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: But the first time I went to one of those was like one of the first times I felt like I really connected with everyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's just it has a special place in my heart from that.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: So um as being someone who's who's more or less brand new to Wesley, um, and you you you have uh kind of blank no uh preconceived notions about Wesley, um, what do you think the I guess kind of best and worst parts about Wesley have been so far?
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  unknown: I don't know.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like the best part is with the community, like in hangs or any of like the group chats, you can text, hey, I'm gonna go do this, and people will instantly like want to go do it with you.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: Or you can be like, hey, like I need help with this, and there's a lot of people there to help you.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like and already respond.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Worst part, I don't know.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's just a sad question.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, worst part's maybe a uh yeah, disappointing way to uh a negative way to frame that, but is there anything you think we could do better?
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I feel like connecting like older and younger members of us, like as like freshly super close group, but just like connecting freshmen with like upperclassmen is something.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, yeah, and oh, I also I just thought of something about Freshly.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't know if y'all have heard about it, but we do spotted where we see each other on campus and we just take a picture of them and send it, and we don't say hi, we just send the picture to Freshly, and it's so funny, it gets me going throughout my day.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, were you involved in in any kind of youth group or or church group when you were in in high school?
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I went to the same church in the time I was four to like 15, 14, and I just kind of like fell out of love with it because it was not a good environment.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was kind of like a toxic youth group for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then I like a lot of my best friends went to the I'm Presbyterian.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they went to like the other Presbyterian church in Somerville, and I started going in there in my junior year, and that was like the best group ever.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was where like I really decided I really want to find a similar group in college, and that's what I really found here.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Great.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um we got Wesley leadership applications coming up.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh is there any, I mean, maybe not this year, but any uh ministry or any part of Wesley that you really are interested in in leading or helping out with in the future?
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um I would I don't think I could do a small group, not gonna lie, but I could do anything like hospitality, like outreach type stuff to like new people, bringing new people in, kind of thing.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's something I've always enjoyed with other like organizations I've been involved in.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: So I could see something there, maybe.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: So if uh people listening to this episode want to get to know you better, uh, where can they find you?
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: So again, I'm always at the dining hall, it's my favorite place to be, honestly.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I do have my limited meal plan.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: So text me on the group me, DM me on Instagram, whatever, if you ever want a free meal on me, I'm down.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_00: Great, thank you, Julia.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no problem.
• 14:25
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• 14:29
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• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, get out there and love your neighbor.