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How to: Make the Most Out of College · Learn by Listening

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  Speaker 1: Cal Poly is in session. Students swarm through campus and
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  Speaker 1: file in and out of classes. They're thinking about the
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  Speaker 1: chapter of reading they have tonight, their next class, their
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  Speaker 1: new dorm, their senior project, how to get to the gym,
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  Speaker 1: what's for dinner tonight? Where's the nearest bathroom?
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  Speaker 2: Kate and I know.
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  Speaker 1: Things can get a bit chaotic as a student navigating
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  Speaker 1: the inns and out of college life.
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  Speaker 2: At cal Poly, we focus on learning by doing, but
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you don't know what to do well. Emma and
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  Speaker 2: I are here to answer your who, what, when, where, why,
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  Speaker 2: and how's here? On CP one oh one Learned by Listening,
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  Speaker 2: presented by KCPR ninety one point three. Hi Mustang, I'm
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  Speaker 2: Kate Lopenske, a fourth year journalism student.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm Emma Hughes, a fourth year English student here
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  Speaker 1: at cal Poly, and we're here to share our tell
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  Speaker 1: all guide on how to survive and thrive at cal
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  Speaker 1: Poly San Lucibispo. So grab a notebook you may want
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  Speaker 1: to write this down.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to a new season of CPEE one one.
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  Speaker 2: Emma and I are so excited to be back.
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  Speaker 1: It's true we can't wait to start dishing out the
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  Speaker 1: juicy gossip and need to know info once again, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of which, we have an exciting episode prepared for you today.
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  Speaker 2: In the spirit of being back on campus and back
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  Speaker 2: in college mode, we wanted to reminisce on our time
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  Speaker 2: here so far at cal Poly and share our unique experiences,
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  Speaker 2: which they're pretty unique.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty pretty, pretty quirky and different. Seeing as this is
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  Speaker 1: our last year here, we wanted to take the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to impart all our CP wisdom and also all the
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  Speaker 1: things we still need to do before our graduation.
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  Speaker 2: Don't don't make me cry, girl, Well that's right. This
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  Speaker 2: episode is all about how to make the most of
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  Speaker 2: your college experience. So let's dive in, all right, So
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  Speaker 2: now we're going to reflect on each of our years
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  Speaker 2: that we've had here at cal Poly and what we've learned. So, Emma,
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  Speaker 2: how is your freshman year? That's not too you know,
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  Speaker 2: like big of a topic to ask you about. It's
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  Speaker 2: not too much of a.
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  Speaker 1: Loaded question, only like the most chaotic year of my life,
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, sure why not? Freshman year was just so
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  Speaker 1: much all at once, Like there's no one word to
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  Speaker 1: describe it. The best I can do is like chaotic,
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  Speaker 1: wild and just everything. Like I feel like I was
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  Speaker 1: doing everything I could trying to find.
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  Speaker 2: You know, find myself and.
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  Speaker 1: Like figure out who I was going to be for
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  Speaker 1: the next four years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean we lived together, not like in the
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  Speaker 2: same room, but we lived in the same building, so
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  Speaker 2: we kind of experienced all of that, like that crazy
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  Speaker 2: shift together. And I mean I am an only child,
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  Speaker 2: so I went from not having to share anything at all,
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  Speaker 2: which bless to literally sharing a bathroom with forty people.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean it was co ed as well, so
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't fun like getting up in the morning and
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  Speaker 2: seeing some beard hairs in the same you love beard hairs. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: cells down my spine, girl, But I mean, yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: lived on the third.
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  Speaker 1: Floor, yeah, third four women. Yeah, different story. Third floor
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  Speaker 1: was the nunnery because there was just far more women
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  Speaker 1: in the dorms, so we called it, yep, yeah, the nuns. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So my like shared living experience was actually pretty pretty solid.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we just kind of had a blast. Like
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  Speaker 1: doors were open, everyone knew each other. Even the common
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  Speaker 1: spaces were pretty like fun. I know Red Bricks specifically
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  Speaker 1: has ping pong table, one of them has a foodsball table,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a little war between the dorms. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know the dormer nyan, you'r had some beef, but
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  Speaker 1: also like a pool table TVs. Someone had their switch
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  Speaker 1: controllers that they left down there, like there was just
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  Speaker 1: always something happening.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not age ourselves with this though. Oh my gosh, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's true. But yeah, I mean freshman year was definitely intimidating.
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  Speaker 2: I was super shy, fun fact, I know, crazy right,
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  Speaker 2: and so I kind of dove headfirst into Greek life.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out, that's a gamma. That was actually really great
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  Speaker 2: for me because I was able to get myself way
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  Speaker 2: out of my comfort zone pretty much. For that reason,
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  Speaker 2: I'm who I'm, I'm who I am today.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, period, She's a little sorority gal for me. I
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  Speaker 1: actually started freshman year off with KCPR, like that was
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  Speaker 1: my stick. I applied when I was still in high school,
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  Speaker 1: still at home, and got it and I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go and write some articles. I wasn't doing podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: but that was kind of my whole thing. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know, I got to meet all these cool people
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  Speaker 1: and also just even just living in the dorm and
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  Speaker 1: attending classes, you meet so many new people exactly, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to really figure out like, Okay, is this
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  Speaker 1: person gonna be my best friend?
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  Speaker 2: Are they gonna be just my classmate?
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  Speaker 1: Are they gonna be you know, someone that is just
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  Speaker 1: an acquaintance who like I see and say hi to,
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  Speaker 1: but don't really you know, take that friendship further. It
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  Speaker 1: was definitely a trying time of just like who am I,
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  Speaker 1: where do I stand? And then who are all these
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  Speaker 1: new people and where do they stand in my life
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  Speaker 1: as well?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah, so freshman year was pretty much just like
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  Speaker 2: about dipping your toes in the water saying where you
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  Speaker 2: fit in, which that's what we were all trying to
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  Speaker 2: do there. And then sophomore year was even a bit
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  Speaker 2: scarier for me personally because it was just all about
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  Speaker 2: adjusting to living off campus and having to be a
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  Speaker 2: full functioning adult right while being like a college student.
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  Speaker 2: Freshman year, everything is taken care of.
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  Speaker 1: All you, and freshman year's more so in my opinion
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  Speaker 1: about the social life, Like, yes, it's totally new academically,
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  Speaker 1: but also you're taking mostly ge classes. You're not yet
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  Speaker 1: into your major classes, or if you are, there's still
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  Speaker 1: like the rudimentary ones, and then sophomore year, all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, it's like, let's remove you from this new
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  Speaker 1: stasis you've been in, put you in, you know, living
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  Speaker 1: off campus or even just living in PCV or SARO,
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  Speaker 1: which is still slightly removed, and like even still they're
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  Speaker 1: also apartments, so it's navigating a whole new roommate structure
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  Speaker 1: and system, and then commuting to campus is suddenly on
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  Speaker 1: the table.
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  Speaker 2: How do you navigate that?
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  Speaker 1: How do you hang out with friends who you aren't
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  Speaker 1: seeing every day in your dorm.
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  Speaker 2: Hall exactly, Like it kind of forces you to put
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  Speaker 2: more effort into those friendships.
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  Speaker 1: Sophomore year for me definitely really solidified my friend group.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. By sophomore year, it's like, okay, so you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be one of my future bridesmaids. Uh huh, yeah, tour
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  Speaker 2: like that, those deeper friendships and connections, and then I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, just my sophomore year was more about like
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  Speaker 2: budgeting my money. Like true, when we were living on campus,
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  Speaker 2: we could just mosey on over to veg Oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: fvegi Eg.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well and it was all fake money, yeah exactly, Whereas.
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  Speaker 2: Now we had access to Hellelujah Trader. Joe's right. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: where did all my money go? For the money, I
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  Speaker 2: have no idea. Mister Joe took it. Actually, yeah, he snatched.
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  Speaker 2: He snatched all my cash. So I mean, but we
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  Speaker 2: kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Needed that, right, It's like that next level of adulting.
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  Speaker 1: Like college is like you're away from your parents, your family,
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  Speaker 1: You're now like your own human being, and then sophomore
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  Speaker 1: year is like whoa, Like it's all on you to
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  Speaker 1: figure out and it's all on you to like make
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  Speaker 1: sure you're doing everything you need to be, including grocery shopping,
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  Speaker 1: which shameless plug. We have a how to Grocery Shop episode.
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  Speaker 1: Go check it out if you need cues for that.
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  Speaker 2: That one was funny. You can hear all about Emma's
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  Speaker 2: weird food habits. Yeah sorry in advance. She's kind of gross.
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  Speaker 2: She's a freak.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, like it's still totally new. Like sophomore year,
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  Speaker 1: your friendship's a little more solidified, you're getting into classes
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  Speaker 1: that's a little more solidified, but it's still a totally
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  Speaker 1: new living situation.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I personally loved junior year so much.
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  Speaker 2: I just felt like I really hit my stride. I
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  Speaker 2: was able to really focus on the things that I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to best. My time in my friendships were feeling great.
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  Speaker 2: I was settled into my housing, and I mean that
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  Speaker 2: makes me even more excited for senior year, because what
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  Speaker 2: does this year hold.
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  Speaker 1: No, I completely agree. Junior year definitely was my most
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  Speaker 1: constant year thus far. Like again, freshman year, sophomore year,
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  Speaker 1: it's still crazy, it's still new. Junior year, it's like
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  Speaker 1: now you can kind of focus on academics and you're
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  Speaker 1: in your major courses and you're really getting into like
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  Speaker 1: the nitty gritty of what you love and what you
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  Speaker 1: might want to do for the rest of your life potentially.
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  Speaker 1: So it was fun to navigate that space with my
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  Speaker 1: close friends. We're doing what we want to do, we're
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  Speaker 1: figuring out where we want to go with this, and
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  Speaker 1: we're also just having fun together being like little galpals.
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  Speaker 1: It being so real though, like we would do like
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  Speaker 1: little family dinner nights and like we did like a
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  Speaker 1: Christmas party, Like it was a lot more low key,
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  Speaker 1: Like freshman year is so crazy with like you have
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  Speaker 1: to explore the frat scene and you want to explore
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  Speaker 1: every club on campus, and I totally understand that impulse.
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  Speaker 2: I was there, I did it.
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  Speaker 1: But junior year it's like you know where you're at,
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  Speaker 1: you know what you want to do, and you're just
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  Speaker 1: you get to live in that space and do it.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, let's not fail to mention the bars though.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's true. That's a big change as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Also, shameless plug, check out how to barcrow because
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  Speaker 1: we've been there.
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  Speaker 2: Done that. Yeah. Well, I'm so grateful for every single
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  Speaker 2: year and how my interests have shifted and changed and
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  Speaker 2: my priorities have changed as well. And I am like
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  Speaker 2: learning to be a real person, I know.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, this year, even just walking around campus, I
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  Speaker 1: feel so old and I'm like everyone here I can
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  Speaker 1: look around and be like, I know, y'all are younger
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  Speaker 1: than me, Like there's at least a seventy five percent
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  Speaker 1: chance that you are younger than me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, our dating pool is shrunk.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's very very sad. But what can you do?
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  Speaker 2: Hashtags still single out here? Well, I mean, in conclusion,
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  Speaker 2: just like it gets better every single year, so yes,
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  Speaker 2: hold out faith. I know, like freshman year can just
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  Speaker 2: be so like I said, over stimulating and daunting, and
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  Speaker 2: luckily there are those things like sororities and clubs and
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  Speaker 2: dorms that help foster those social connections that you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have for the rest of your time in college. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna forever be grateful for every single thing that
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  Speaker 2: I was involved in freshman year because it gave me,
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  Speaker 2: like my best friends, and I wouldn't do anything differently, but.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, and now it's like we got to see where
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  Speaker 1: that kind of took us, because now we're going into
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  Speaker 1: our senior year last year and it's like, oh, we
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  Speaker 1: have to squeeze everything in while we.
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  Speaker 2: Still can exactly. And I mean, now that we've touched
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  Speaker 2: on our years here, let's get a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: specific about what we've done on campus and around slow
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just so you can get an idea of
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  Speaker 2: things that you could possibly get involved in, because there
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  Speaker 2: could be something that then I do that you're like, WHOA,
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  Speaker 2: that's actually pretty fun, because.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've kind of done it all. That's pretty cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, Emma, what have you learned about, like through
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  Speaker 2: the things that you've been involved with, because you've done
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  Speaker 2: quite a.
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  Speaker 1: Bit, Like thinking back on what I've done, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I'm a nerd, Like that's really what it's taught
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  Speaker 1: me because everything I've done, I feel like, is like academic. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, we both are here doing KCPR. It's
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  Speaker 1: such a unique opportunity and such a great radio station.
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  Speaker 1: And that's like my one cool little thing that I've done,
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  Speaker 1: Like that's my club that I'm like, yes, this is cool.
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  Speaker 2: This is for the people. You're cool. But talk about
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  Speaker 2: like your master's work and all that, because I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a flex I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm currently getting my master's degree on top
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  Speaker 1: of my undergrad working at them both at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: which is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm alsort of.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm actually a professor right now for the English
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  Speaker 1: one thirty four class. If my students are listening, love
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  Speaker 1: you all guys, do your homework. Yeah, go go do
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  Speaker 1: your homework. And if you didn't show up to class day,
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  Speaker 1: you know who you are. But yeah, so I'm currently
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  Speaker 1: teaching a course, which is really cool because teaching is
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  Speaker 1: actually what I want to do with the rest of
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  Speaker 1: my life. So again, we touched on junior year, like
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  Speaker 1: you figure it out, you settle in senior year. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm like I'm doing it like, I'm really here living life,
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  Speaker 1: and I also am working as a TA for a professor.
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  Speaker 2: I did it over the summer. I did a.
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  Speaker 1: Research project which was really cool. I was like recording
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  Speaker 1: audio books four other English classes that I have done.
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  Speaker 1: So it's really immersing me in my major, I was
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  Speaker 1: a tutor here on campus. I work at the Children's Center.
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  Speaker 1: And then also I was the nerd who started cal
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  Speaker 1: Poly early through the quarter plus program, which is just
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  Speaker 1: extended education. You come a month early and get some
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  Speaker 1: coursework over with. But I wasn't the only nerd because
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  Speaker 1: one little miss Kate.
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  Speaker 2: Also did it. I did, but I was virtual. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all great things, but enough about me. What about U Kate? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, like I said, I am involved in a
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  Speaker 2: sorority right now, I am on excuse status because I
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  Speaker 2: am just so busy with I mean, KCPR obviously a priority.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely love it. I've been wanting to get into
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  Speaker 2: podcasting since high school, so this has just been awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I started off as a content writer, same thing as Emma.
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  Speaker 2: Same Yeah, we were writing articles at the beginning, but
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  Speaker 2: then we were like, you know what, we like to
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  Speaker 2: talk more than.
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  Speaker 1: Right, we are yappers, which I didn't think that.
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  Speaker 2: There would be anything else that I liked more than writing.
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  Speaker 2: But hello, here we are.
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  Speaker 1: You're like I did the academic stuff. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why you did all the cool stuff. Let's talk about up.
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  Speaker 2: And Up or some of your DJ sessions. Yes, I
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  Speaker 2: am deeply involved in the Stanley Lewisavispo EDM scene. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm one of the lead ambassadors for cal Poly Up
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  Speaker 2: and Up Woo Woo. It's the number one college music
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  Speaker 2: festival circuit in all of the nation and pretty much
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  Speaker 2: schools from across the country compete to win an EDM
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  Speaker 2: performance at their school or in their community. So we
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  Speaker 2: won last quarter we Want the Spring with Disco Lines,
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  Speaker 2: and this year we also placed first and won Matroda
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  Speaker 2: And that's all it is, Yes, it is, let's be real.
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  Speaker 2: But and then I also work for sub Sessions Slow,
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  Speaker 2: which is a new EDM collective, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: start throwing shows here pretty soon, which is really really exciting.
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  Speaker 2: We're collaborating with KCPR actually for the Boiler Bang on November.
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  Speaker 1: Two, be there or B Square exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, I've learned that I absolutely love being
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  Speaker 2: a part of the entertainment industry and I'm really trying
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  Speaker 2: to hone in my skills on that. And then also,
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  Speaker 2: I studied abroad this summer. I was in Italy for
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  Speaker 2: a month and that actually really changed my perspective on
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  Speaker 2: postgrad and adventure and all that stuff. And I know
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  Speaker 2: that studying abroad is really expensive and it's quite the commitment,
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  Speaker 2: but I highly highly recommend it if you are even
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  Speaker 2: considering it in the slightest because I am now making
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  Speaker 2: plans to move to Italy after I graduate. Fingers crossed
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  Speaker 2: it works out she's leaving us. I know, I know
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  Speaker 2: it would it would be for less than a year,
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  Speaker 2: but I kind of have a gig in the works,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll see. But yeah, like all of these things
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  Speaker 2: that I've been a part of have really shaped who
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  Speaker 2: I am, and like not to mention just all of
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  Speaker 2: my involvement within my major. Right, I've been able to
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  Speaker 2: write articles and learn how to use camera equipment and
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  Speaker 2: sound editing and all the Adobe applications, and I mean, sure,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm doing at the time, but
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  Speaker 2: we figured out. I mean, we can relate on the
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: fact that we were very much just like thrown into
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  Speaker 2: our majors and we fully embraced it.
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  Speaker 1: I know, like if I told freshman, my freshman yourself
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  Speaker 1: everything that I've done, she'd probably.
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  Speaker 2: Think I was. I know, we're just busy women.
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  Speaker 1: But also, on top of all of these fun, lovely
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  Speaker 1: extra curriculars that we've done, we haven't shirked our cow
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  Speaker 1: poly traditions and let loose a little. So let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about some of our fave cow Po slow town festivities.
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  Speaker 2: Another plug on the Saint Friday's episode. Go listen to
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  Speaker 2: that because that is my favorite San Luis Obispo tradition,
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  Speaker 2: and I know that it's up there for you too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: how could it not be? I love Saint Fridy's because
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  Speaker 2: it just puts everyone in one place.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot go anywhere else to get this. They you
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  Speaker 1: might celebrate Saint Patrick's, stay somewhere else, but this is
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  Speaker 1: Saint Friddy's. And it's not even about the Frats. It's
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  Speaker 1: not Greek life, it's not centered around that. That might
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  Speaker 1: have been like the start or the inspiration. But it's
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: literally just wear green, hit Halfway Street and you are
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: in it. That is pure cow poly culture for better word.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I also went to the cal Poly versus UCSB soccer
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: game last year, and that was a lot of fun.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: That's because people from Santa Barbara will come and it's
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: like our rivals low key doesn't even matter about the sport,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: like it's just it's cal Poly versus Santa Barbara and
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: you get to see that kind of fun little tension
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: and feel the vibes and it's super hype. Another tradition
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: that I definitely want to touch on is hallow Weekend.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I think this happens at other campuses as well, but
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: for some reason, cal Poly just goes hard. We're not
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: by definition of party school. However, give us a holiday
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: and we'll turn up and turn out.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: We are very like holiday centric.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, and Hallowekeen is no exception.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: No, I'm like trying to request time off from work
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: right now, like exactly seriously, we take it okay. Bringing
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: it back another fun like kind of party esque tradition
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: here that we have our twenty first birthday bark Crawls.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Like we said, we have that episode, so go back
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: and listen to that for more of an idea of
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: what happens there.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: And that's another thing that is kind of specific to
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: cal Poly. Like I didn't realize that only cow Poly
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: really goes full out with the signs.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: It's not the thing to be like sappy and emotional about.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: But like, I'm gonna remember my Barcral for the rest
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: of my right. And now let's get into some of
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: like our food traditions here, right, Okay, So we have
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: high Street and Firestone two like the biggest sandwich spots here.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I am personally a high Street girl. I know that
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Firestones big thing is the Tritips sandwich, which is a
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: tough thing when you don't eat red meat. Oops. Oops.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Other little things we have like slow Doco. The donuts
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: are so cute and now they're open twenty four hours
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: so it's become a study spot.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: It is so busy with just people on their laptop
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: right all the time. Yeah, and it feels special too, yeah,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, I yeah, guilty. It's honestly such a productive space.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: We also of the cal Poly Creamery, which just like
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if I've specifically gone there, but
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I know I've had cow Poly cheese and ice cream
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and all that jazz, and it just it feels like
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: something you should do before.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Again, I don't eat any dairy products, right, What about chocolate. Yeah.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I have had the cow poly chocolate hey go. Yeah, yeah,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I've included also Poi Wine. I like the jam as well.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, yes alaa berry jam so yes, okay yeah,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: and then we have some really fun venues here. So
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: like at the Fremont, I know that they have been
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: really stepping up their game in terms of shows. Oh definitely. Yeah.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Like I saw Max Styler there, who is a DJ.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: So that was really fun, and like they're just constantly
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: bringing in different types of entertainment. I know that they
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: had like a Shrek Rave there. I was there there.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I was at the Shrek Grave dressed as Shrek. That's
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: so fun. Ye been there, lived through it. I like
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: slow Brew as well. That's another really fun I saw
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Proxima Purana there.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: One of my best slowbre is a classic for sure.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: And then another fun spot for concerts or other things
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: even just dinner or dessert is Madonna in Yeah, like
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: that is so slow coded.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: That's why show is going to be actually at the Expo. Yeah,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: it's a really huge space. Yeah, it's kind of crazy
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: too because Madonna is just like this little kind of
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: like cheesy touristy. Oh totally like mom and pop place.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: But then at the same time they have this huge
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: venue where like you can throw shows.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: The Rodeo happens over there. They do a Tesla convention
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that Elon Musk has been at. Madonna ends like a
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: spot to go and you can just pull up and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: grab a piece of cake. Another go to classic is
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: all of the beaches around Slow.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have a favorite beach?
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, my heart's an Avla always like that's the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: college beach that will forever be college to me?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Is Ama beach facts. Now, Emma, I'm curious, since we're seniors,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: is there anything left on your col poly bucket list
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: or your Slow bucket list that you still have to
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: do before you graduate?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Actually, yes, I know that everyone does a grad bar
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: crawl before their graduation. So like you wake up if
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: you're graduating early in the morning or in the afternoon,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you wake up kind of early, and all the bars
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: are open, and you go out with your parents, your friends,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: your supporters, and you just kind of get a little
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a little drunk before graduation.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: When I tell you that my parents have already started planning,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: they are so excited.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: It's so cute, right, and it's it's a fun time
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to reminisce with your friends, but also to include your
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: family in that and kind of share a little bit
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: of slow with them.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I still really need to do the try Tip challenge
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: same just because I love hiking, but the thought of
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: doing all of them consecutively like makes you want to
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: throw up. Okay.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: One thing that I still haven't done is go to
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Shippang really okay. Yeah, so that's another col Poly like
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: tradition thing to do and slow and I just haven't
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: done it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So Shabang is like our local music festival. It's
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: like the San Luis Obispo Coachella. I just love how
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: like intimate it is. It's a good sized festival ground.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I already bought my early bird tickets, so if you
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: decide to go, I will see you there. Yeah. I
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: need to do that.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: And also, if you're like me haven't been in considering going,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: check out our how to Shabang episode because we covered
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: that as well.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: That's all the time we have for today. One last
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: piece of advice, to quote the one and only Professor Gearhart,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: most of the learning you will do here at cal
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Poly will be outside the classroom, so don't be afraid
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: to get outside, touch grass and have some fun.
• 22:40
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• 22:42
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