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Dorm-wide friendsgiving brings Cal Poly students together · Stories from Mustang News on KCPR

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  Speaker 1: In just six days, Sequoia Hall students organized a dorm
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  Speaker 1: wide friends giving. Planning included collecting recipes, building a master
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  Speaker 1: shopping list, and creating a schedule for who would cook, shop,
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  Speaker 1: and set up the event. Coordination was key, according to
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  Speaker 1: a communications freshman Kingsley Frank and mechanical engineering freshman Teaque Shepherd,
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  Speaker 1: students move between dorms, timed oven usage, and kept track
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  Speaker 1: of serving to ensure no one went hungry.
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  Speaker 2: And everyone's just been going at it. Yeahing, this all
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  Speaker 2: workout and we rcped. Do you know how many people rcped?
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  Speaker 1: We had, like over seventy, over.
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  Speaker 2: Seventy and way more showed up. And I'm just happy
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  Speaker 2: that we had more than enough free for everyone. Sorriday
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  Speaker 2: we had like our costco run everyone's in the market
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  Speaker 2: up so much, feard a lot. Saturday we were cooking
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  Speaker 2: the whole day. Oh yeah, absolute legends, dude. Also thanks
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  Speaker 2: to all the neighboring dorms whose kitchens we kind of
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  Speaker 2: overtook for the last a few hours.
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  Speaker 1: Construction management freshman in Age Jerk explains that the student
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  Speaker 1: organizers also raised money through a GoFundMe, raising nearly eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars to purchase food, praise any utensils for the
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  Speaker 1: expected crown.
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  Speaker 3: We started off, we created a date, We found a
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  Speaker 3: date that worked best for everyone. We then created a
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  Speaker 3: whole spreadsheet with all the food, all the ingredients we needed.
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  Speaker 3: We then created a big course supply off or our QF.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone at our SVP get a headcount. We then created
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  Speaker 3: a GoFundMe and with the go fund me were we
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  Speaker 3: obtained eight hundred dollars pretty much, and that all went
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  Speaker 3: to Costco, which we then got food for and we
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  Speaker 3: all came together.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone had different tasks.
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  Speaker 3: We created a schedule at itinerary and the toss came
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  Speaker 3: together and everyone worked really hard. I was here with
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  Speaker 3: the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: We then like.
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  Speaker 3: Door dash like decorations. We put up lights and the
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  Speaker 3: strings and everything, and yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We got the whole family together.
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  Speaker 3: And it's been a really cool experience to watch everything
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  Speaker 3: come slow together.
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  Speaker 1: Student organized as divided tasks amongst themselves and while some
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  Speaker 1: handled fundraising, gathering recipes and cooking, others like graph Communications
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  Speaker 1: freshman Christine to Nicola, went on one big Costco hall,
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  Speaker 1: which required multiple home kitchens to accommodate all the food
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  Speaker 1: and subsequent dishes.
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  Speaker 4: There's so many of us that have missed cooking because
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  Speaker 4: we can't obviously cook as much in our dorm as
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  Speaker 4: we can at home. So it was so much fun
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  Speaker 4: to like actually get out the whisks and mix up
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  Speaker 4: things and make it all from scratch.
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  Speaker 2: It.
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  Speaker 4: It was really reminiscent.
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  Speaker 1: The students subscribed the event as a true team effort,
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  Speaker 1: with careful planning, clear communication, and specific task assignments ensuring
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  Speaker 1: that the night ran smoothly. They created a master schedule,
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  Speaker 1: divide the responsibilities and make sure no one student did
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  Speaker 1: it all. They hope that events I'd disc continue here
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  Speaker 1: at Cal Paul.
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  Speaker 4: Don't ever like think anything is too big to put on.
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  Speaker 4: We did not have the money. We are all broke
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  Speaker 4: college kids, but we put out a gofund me and
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  Speaker 4: we were like, why not try, And we ended up
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  Speaker 4: raising a close to eight hundred dollars and we were
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  Speaker 4: able to put this all together with the help of everyone.
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  Speaker 4: So blood, sweat and tears and thanksgiving cheer
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  Speaker 1: From Musting News, I'm billing White