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- 0:00SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Wesley World.
- 0:15SPEAKER_01: Hello, my name is Bailey Meehan, and today on Humans of Wesley, I'm joined by Jack Ye.
- 0:19SPEAKER_01: Jack, welcome to the show.
- 0:20SPEAKER_00: Thanks for having me.
- 0:21SPEAKER_01: Jack, can you introduce yourself for everyone?
- 0:23SPEAKER_00: Sure thing.
- 0:24SPEAKER_00: My name is Jack Ye.
- 0:25SPEAKER_00: I am from Aiken, South Carolina.
- 0:28SPEAKER_00: I'm a junior.
- 0:29SPEAKER_00: I am a health science major with a psychology minor.
- 0:33SPEAKER_01: Great.
- 0:34SPEAKER_01: So, Jack, if you could have an unlimited supply of something, what would you want to have?
- 0:40SPEAKER_00: Ooh, that's a good one.
- 0:43SPEAKER_00: Probably sweet tea.
- 0:44SPEAKER_00: Anyone who knows me knows I love sweet tea, so I could probably like use an unlimited amount of that, probably.
- 0:50SPEAKER_01: And what is your favorite dessert?
- 0:53SPEAKER_00: I've got to say ice cream.
- 0:54SPEAKER_00: I'm a huge sucker for ice cream.
- 0:56SPEAKER_00: Big ice cream fan?
- 0:57SPEAKER_00: I love spilled the beans.
- 0:58SPEAKER_01: I was just about to say, what's your favorite place in Clemson?
- 1:00SPEAKER_01: You think spilled the beans is the best?
- 1:01SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
- 1:01SPEAKER_00: I love that place.
- 1:04SPEAKER_01: What is the best teacher or coach or instructor that you've ever had?
- 1:10SPEAKER_00: Ooh, I can think of two good examples.
- 1:12SPEAKER_00: So all throughout elementary middle school, I had this really good religion teacher.
- 1:15SPEAKER_00: Her name is Mrs.
- 1:16SPEAKER_00: Ordner.
- 1:16SPEAKER_00: She was very sweet, and she's one of my favorite teachers overall.
- 1:20SPEAKER_00: And then in high school, I had a really good um English teacher, and uh he was also the director of all the musicals I was in.
- 1:29SPEAKER_00: His name was uh Mr.
- 1:30SPEAKER_00: Lloyd.
- 1:31SPEAKER_00: So he's a very good teacher.
- 1:33SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
- 1:34SPEAKER_01: What is your favorite Clemson tradition?
- 1:38SPEAKER_00: I love going to football games.
- 1:39SPEAKER_00: Like I love how we all have like that little group we go to in lower deck, just uh cheers daggers on.
- 1:46SPEAKER_00: You know?
- 1:47SPEAKER_01: Um and what do you think is the most underrated place on campus?
- 1:52SPEAKER_00: Oh, I gotta think about that.
- 1:55SPEAKER_01: That's kind of a weird question.
- 1:56SPEAKER_01: Maybe what's your favorite place on campus?
- 1:58SPEAKER_00: I love Bobin Field.
- 1:59SPEAKER_00: Like I love like taking like like a beach towel there just to suck up the sun and like read a book or something.
- 2:04SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's awesome.
- 2:06SPEAKER_01: So you said you're from Aiken, South Carolina?
- 2:08SPEAKER_00: Yes, I am.
- 2:09SPEAKER_01: Um that's horse country, right?
- 2:11SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 2:11SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
- 2:12SPEAKER_01: People in Aiken take their horses pretty seriously, right?
- 2:14SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the Sable Change was like just last last week.
- 2:17SPEAKER_00: So yeah, like it's a big horse town.
- 2:19SPEAKER_00: There's like a lot of like ceramic horses all over the place.
- 2:22SPEAKER_00: You can see all over.
- 2:23SPEAKER_00: And yeah, it's just a nice place to live.
- 2:25SPEAKER_01: Did you go to any of the races growing up?
- 2:28SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's like a little kid.
- 2:29SPEAKER_00: The last one I remember going to was like sophomore year of high school.
- 2:32SPEAKER_00: Like just it's supposed you can get like get up nice like old friends, you know.
- 2:36SPEAKER_00: I didn't go this time because it was kind of like I'm sorry for the MKAT right now, and just I don't have I don't have time for that.
- 2:41SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I guess another um kind of big Augusta area thing that's coming up pretty soon is the Masters.
- 2:49SPEAKER_01: Uh, does your family do anything special for the Masters?
- 2:52SPEAKER_00: Not really.
- 2:53SPEAKER_00: So it's always our spring break during the Masters, so we kind of like tend to like go out of town to like avoid the craziness, but believe it or not, I am taking my MCAT next Saturday right at the end of Masters Week.
- 3:04SPEAKER_00: So that was not good planning on my part.
- 3:07SPEAKER_01: Um did your family ever like rent their house out or something?
- 3:10SPEAKER_01: I know a lot of people in the area do kind of weird things for the Masters.
- 3:14SPEAKER_00: We don't really, just it's kind of like weird having someone live in your house for a week.
- 3:18SPEAKER_00: Like you don't want them to mess with all your stuff.
- 3:19SPEAKER_00: Also, um, it's just it's a lot of hassle to do that.
- 3:24SPEAKER_01: Um and what's your favorite thing about Aiken?
- 3:27SPEAKER_00: Just like a nice small town community.
- 3:29SPEAKER_00: Like it's a lot of nice people.
- 3:30SPEAKER_00: You everyone knows everyone, just a lot of good places to eat too.
- 3:34SPEAKER_00: It's just they're nice to like meet friends for lunch or coffee or something like that.
- 3:37SPEAKER_01: Yeah, is there any restaurant that you really miss while you're here in Clemson?
- 3:40SPEAKER_00: I can think of one in particular.
- 3:42SPEAKER_00: It's called Betsy's Around the Corner.
- 3:43SPEAKER_00: It's this really good like 50s retro diner.
- 3:47SPEAKER_00: It's got the best mugshakes I've ever had.
- 3:49SPEAKER_00: Back to the ice cream thing.
- 3:51SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I miss every now and then when I when I'm back, I try to like go there.
- 3:56SPEAKER_01: So um you're from Aiken, but you went to s high school in Augusta, right?
- 4:01SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I did.
- 4:02SPEAKER_00: I went to Aquinas High School, which is like a small Catholic private school.
- 4:05SPEAKER_01: Yeah, actually my cousins went there as well.
- 4:07SPEAKER_00: Oh, really?
- 4:07SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
- 4:08SPEAKER_01: They're much, much older than you, so I don't think you knew them.
- 4:10SPEAKER_01: Um But uh that's a pretty pretty long drive to uh school in the morning, right?
- 4:15SPEAKER_00: Yep, 40 minutes.
- 4:17SPEAKER_01: Um did you like going to Catholic school?
- 4:20SPEAKER_00: It was okay.
- 4:20SPEAKER_00: I met a lot of nice people.
- 4:21SPEAKER_00: Like I'm still good friends with like a good bit of them.
- 4:23SPEAKER_00: Just it's kind of like a hard drive to get like to and from.
- 4:26SPEAKER_00: I mean like when you do like a lot of extracurricular stuff like theater and cross-country, it's kind of like very demanding time-wise, but it's not it's not that bad in the in the long run.
- 4:36SPEAKER_01: And uh what brought you to Clemson?
- 4:39SPEAKER_00: Ooh, that's a good one.
- 4:41SPEAKER_00: So I think well, the in-state helps just uh sure like be far enough from home to like be yourself, like not be yourself, um like to experience something new.
- 4:56SPEAKER_00: Yeah, just like close enough to like you can drive back if you need something, or like, but far enough to like have a new experience.
- 5:04SPEAKER_00: So also, um, there's a good health program.
- 5:08SPEAKER_00: Like the health science program is really good.
- 5:11SPEAKER_00: And when I was like figuring out what major was gonna be, I had a a friend from home who um she's in med school right now.
- 5:19SPEAKER_00: Her name's Sophie Nance.
- 5:20SPEAKER_00: She told us that instead of majoring in biology, it would be good to major in health science because it's more specialized to the field.
- 5:27SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's kind of what you mean.
- 5:29SPEAKER_00: Also football.
- 5:31SPEAKER_01: Yeah, of course.
- 5:32SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, so so you're a health science major and you're pre-med.
- 5:36SPEAKER_01: Um what makes you want to be a doctor?
- 5:39SPEAKER_00: Well, it's kind of the family business for me.
- 5:41SPEAKER_00: So my dad is an emergency physician and my mom is a pediatric nurse practitioner.
- 5:45SPEAKER_00: So I don't know, just like I grew up around like medical terminology and like stories of my dad's time at the ER.
- 5:52SPEAKER_00: Just like I want to do something like that.
- 5:53SPEAKER_00: And I like helping people.
- 5:54SPEAKER_00: So Yeah.
- 5:55SPEAKER_01: Do you know if there's a a specific medical specialty you want to do?
- 5:59SPEAKER_00: I'm still figuring that out.
- 6:00SPEAKER_00: So like I think like the rounds will help me.
- 6:03SPEAKER_00: Like if I go to med school.
- 6:04SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm sure that's a big part of med school is figuring out exactly what you want to do.
- 6:07SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
- 6:08SPEAKER_00: Like I still got the time to think about it, but also really don't because I'm taking things MCAT a little bit, and then like applications start soon.
- 6:16SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
- 6:17SPEAKER_01: Is uh pretty much everyone in health science a pre-med or of some type or a pre-professional of some type?
- 6:22SPEAKER_00: Or kind of.
- 6:24SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of like health services administration, also like education.
- 6:28SPEAKER_00: Like public health education is a big one.
- 6:30SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of hard to find some like actually pre-med people, but there's a good bit.
- 6:36SPEAKER_01: So yeah, and so um you're uh uh junior, right?
- 6:41SPEAKER_01: Um, so you've gotten through a good bit of of the health science major.
- 6:45SPEAKER_01: I mean, like our last humans of Wesley episode was Julio Griffith, who is just now starting uh health science.
- 6:50SPEAKER_01: Do you have any any advice for new health science students at Clemson?
- 6:55SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
- 6:56SPEAKER_00: Um a lot a good bit of time to study, but also don't burn yourself out trying to like devote your entire time to studying.
- 7:04SPEAKER_00: Like try to find some fun stuff to do.
- 7:06SPEAKER_00: Like that's what that's what I like about Wesley.
- 7:08SPEAKER_00: Like it's like basically like a lot of my social interactions with in Clemson is just going to Wesley stuff, so just it helps you it helps ground you.
- 7:15SPEAKER_00: So also um use Rate My Professor, because that's a really good tool.
- 7:21SPEAKER_00: I don't know, some some professors are good, but they're also really rough.
- 7:24SPEAKER_01: So Yeah, and then you've you've mentioned a few times that you're getting ready to take the MCAT.
- 7:29SPEAKER_01: Uh you've been studying for that for a while, right?
- 7:32SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I have.
- 7:32SPEAKER_00: Just I've started like reading the books like last summer, and then I really started getting into it um about a few months ago, just like taking like practice questions and practice exams.
- 7:43SPEAKER_00: I don't know why you bring it up, just like because it's like so close, it's kind of on my mind right now.
- 7:47SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I and um it's a big deal too.
- 7:49SPEAKER_01: Um MCAT's uh something that um you know a big kind of moment for doctors.
- 7:55SPEAKER_01: Do you have any advice on how to study for the MCAT?
- 7:57SPEAKER_00: Start early.
- 7:58SPEAKER_00: Don't um cluster your load like two months in advance, like just sprinkle in the material so you know like what's on it, and then like really get into the studying.
- 8:10SPEAKER_01: Yeah, do you think your classes at Clemson covered all the material pretty well, or do there's things you had to learn, teach yourself?
- 8:17SPEAKER_00: I think a good bit was so like the two and a half the first two and a half years of the health science curriculum is like getting you acquainted with all those like um science courses like anatomy and organic chemistry and stuff like that.
- 8:33SPEAKER_00: So it helped, but I also like you to like relearn my s relearn it because I always I tend to forget all that after I finish a course because I'm like I'm done with that, I don't want to do that anymore.
- 8:42SPEAKER_00: But then you gotta do it again.
- 8:43SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it really makes you uh have to remember that stuff.
- 8:46SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
- 8:47SPEAKER_01: So outside of class, um, you're in like a service fraternity, right?
- 8:51SPEAKER_00: Yes, I'm a brother in Alpha Phi Omega, which is a national code service service fraternity on campus.
- 8:56SPEAKER_01: So what do you do with that group?
- 8:58SPEAKER_00: So we um have a lot of so service projects throughout the year that we do.
- 9:03SPEAKER_00: Like some people sometimes you can um organize some things like in the past, I've done some graphic design for some Instagram posts for week of s weeks of service.
- 9:12SPEAKER_00: Also, we're in charge of the Blood Bowl that happens every fall where you we compete against USC to donate blood.
- 9:20SPEAKER_00: So yeah, just a bunch of service stuff throughout helping like Clumps and Downs and other organizations.
- 9:25SPEAKER_00: The Homeless Period Project is one we also work with.
- 9:28SPEAKER_00: It's a it's a good group.
- 9:29SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what what led you to join APO?
- 9:32SPEAKER_00: So funny story.
- 9:33SPEAKER_00: So in 2018, I went to my friend's um graduation party, and one of her friends, a girl named Melissa, was also there.
- 9:42SPEAKER_00: And so I started following her on Instagram, but I didn't really know her.
- 9:45SPEAKER_00: So then about a year ago, like around January, February, I saw like on like people's Instagram stories about like joining this like fraternity to go into like a trivia c trivia um icebreaker event, and she was like, Hey, you should go to this.
- 9:58SPEAKER_00: I was like, Okay, okay.
- 9:59SPEAKER_00: So I went and I had a lot of fun, so I decided hey, I'll do I'll stick with this for the long run.
- 10:04SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm kind of hesitant to like commit to big things because like I kind of like was an overachiever in high school, so I don't like like putting too much on myself, but as I went through it, like I met a lot of great people.
- 10:15SPEAKER_00: And it turns out my grandpa was also a brother in a chapter at Augusta, so yeah, it's pretty it's a nice family legacy, I guess.
- 10:26SPEAKER_00: And like I just like I I grew up like doing a lot of service for like school stuff and like volunteer work in the community, so like it's something I'm very passionate about, so I enjoy doing it.
- 10:36SPEAKER_01: Yeah, great.
- 10:37SPEAKER_01: I know a lot of those um you know, service fraternities or professional fraternities and things have some kind of goofy like pledging processes.
- 10:46SPEAKER_01: Did you have to like meet with every single member of the chapter or something like that?
- 10:52SPEAKER_00: So one of the um the things you have to do, you need to get like 45 interviews with like different brothers throughout the semester.
- 10:59SPEAKER_00: So it was during COVID when I pledged, so I had to like do a lot of FaceTime calls.
- 11:04SPEAKER_00: I remember like one day I tried to get like seven in a day, and I did it.
- 11:07SPEAKER_00: So yeah, it's just like you gotta ask them like what awards they've won, what do they do in the fraternity, like name, hometown, some fun questions too.
- 11:18SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
- 11:18SPEAKER_00: Also, there's like a lot, there's like these um tests you'd have to take, like about like the history and like the laws of the group, and it's kind of hard to like do that along with like STEM work, but I made it.
- 11:32SPEAKER_01: So yeah, that's awesome.
- 11:34SPEAKER_01: So, Jack, I know you um are pretty passionate about a lot of TV shows and movies and and fandoms and things.
- 11:42SPEAKER_01: You uh might be one of the only people in Wesley that knows more than me about things like Star Wars and Marvel and stuff.
- 11:49SPEAKER_01: So um have you always been a fan of of those kind of things, or did you get into that somewhere?
- 11:56SPEAKER_00: So I remember like when I was like like six years old, like we went to Target with our family, and they bought like this DVD of like the original stars movie to watch because like my dad was a a fan, so I was like, okay, and then it turned into a lifelong kind of like fandom kind of thing.
- 12:15SPEAKER_00: So but yeah, like and then I graduated into Marvel too, so and like it's kind of hard to find people who like like that stuff in like middle school, but like when I went to like high school and then college, like I found a lot of people who did like it.
- 12:27SPEAKER_00: Like I talked to Lauren Hunley a lot about like fandom things like Star Wars Marvel, so um, yeah.
- 12:34SPEAKER_01: So, you know, with those big fandoms like Star Wars and Marvel that have been going for so so many years and just have so many you know movies and TV shows and stuff.
- 12:44SPEAKER_01: What would you suggest for someone who wanted to get into those kind of things?
- 12:46SPEAKER_01: Where should they start?
- 12:49SPEAKER_00: Um that's a good question.
- 12:51SPEAKER_00: That's kind of hard.
- 12:52SPEAKER_00: Um I think like there's like a lot of entry-level things you can get into, like um, let's see, like obviously like the original trilogy of Star Wars movies is a good place to start.
- 13:03SPEAKER_00: Um The Mandalorian's really good if you like want something like a Western or something like that.
- 13:08SPEAKER_00: For Marvel's kind of complicated because like it's like a big web of like stories and stuff like that.
- 13:13SPEAKER_00: Like probably like release whatever the movies, like start with Iron Man.
- 13:17SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 13:18SPEAKER_01: I know um you're also a big fan of like sitcom TV shows like The Office and Parks and Rec and stuff like that.
- 13:24SPEAKER_01: What was what's your favorite TV show?
- 13:26SPEAKER_00: Ooh, that's a good one, because like um, so I really like Parks and Rec.
- 13:34SPEAKER_00: Like, there's a lot of people who um and Wesley like that too.
- 13:37SPEAKER_00: Like, funny story.
- 13:39SPEAKER_00: So last fall retreat, we went to like this indie bookstore in town at Black Mountain, and I found like for$20 this like book that Leslie Nope writes in Universe of like her town called Pawnee.
- 13:52SPEAKER_00: So I bought it, and then we got back to the cabin.
- 13:55SPEAKER_00: I showed Bryson Parlor, and she was like, Oh my gosh.
- 13:57SPEAKER_00: And like we just like looked at the book the entire like time before um dinner, and then like the last worships, and it was so funny.
- 14:05SPEAKER_00: So yeah, it's one of my favorites.
- 14:08SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, what what makes Park and Rec your favorite?
- 14:13SPEAKER_00: I think like the idea of community like sits well with me, like people coming together to get a job done, like in a way that's like uplifts everyone.
- 14:23SPEAKER_00: I really like those themes, and like and like back to like service, like that's like a very heavy theme that I really like.
- 14:30SPEAKER_01: So um, changing shifting gears a little bit, um what got brought you to Wesley?
- 14:37SPEAKER_00: Ooh, that's a good story.
- 14:39SPEAKER_00: So I think the one person who like kind of brought me in was Emily Miller.
- 14:44SPEAKER_00: So I knew about Emily like because we had a mutual friend who was one of my classmates in high school.
- 14:49SPEAKER_00: So she told me about her, and like I started following her on like Facebook, and then like I found out she was part of like the Methodist ministry, so like and I was really like um determined to maintain my faith throughout college, like find a good like bedrock for staying in church, because like not all people like stay in church when they're like when they go to college.
- 15:13SPEAKER_00: So I went, I asked her, like, hey, what's the first event for Wesley when I like I got right into Clumpson and she just and then I learned about the um so it was gonna be like a white beach party, but then like it was raining, so we had like the game night at the WB.
- 15:29SPEAKER_00: So I went there.
- 15:30SPEAKER_00: The first person I ever met in Wesley was Grace and Dukes, who was really nice, and then I met Emily and Lauren and Steve and everyone, and it was just I knew it was for me.
- 15:40SPEAKER_01: So that's great.
- 15:42SPEAKER_01: What's been your your favorite uh event that you've done with Wesley over your few years you've been in here?
- 15:47SPEAKER_00: Ooh, that's a good question.
- 15:48SPEAKER_00: Because like we haven't had a lot of like big events because of COVID.
- 15:52SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 15:52SPEAKER_01: So COVID really limited our activities.
- 15:54SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
- 15:55SPEAKER_00: Like I l I loved um doing Freshly when I was a freshman, and then I led freshly when I was a sophomore, and like So should I just like the casual things like oh we're gonna watch a movie at the movie at the WB, or we're going to um let's see.
- 16:14SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to think of another one.
- 16:15SPEAKER_00: Um or we're going to or like we're having a game night at the Wesley building.
- 16:19SPEAKER_00: Like I just like those small things where like it's just very casual.
- 16:23SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think some of the you know smaller Wesley events are some of the best because you can really talk to people and and hang out and get to know them.
- 16:30SPEAKER_01: Um so you mentioned you were a a freshly leader, your sophomore year, and you've uh continue to be a small group leader this year.
- 16:38SPEAKER_01: Um, what do you like about leading small groups?
- 16:41SPEAKER_00: So what I like about small groups is that it's a very it's a very good place to encourage discussion about topics in the Bible.
- 16:51SPEAKER_00: So this year my this the topic of my small group is the books of Acts and like the epistles from the apostles.
- 17:00SPEAKER_00: So I was very interested in learning like how does the apostleship of the early church uh relate to the apostleship of the modern day.
- 17:08SPEAKER_00: So I was really interested in like learning like what Peter did in those early days after Jesus ascended to heaven.
- 17:14SPEAKER_00: How can we translate that to serving our neighbor and living Christ-like lives in the like today?
- 17:20SPEAKER_00: So it's not it's fun to like actually like dive into scriptures like you don't you don't really like read a lot just uh and encouraging like think about how times have changed since since the early church, like how we changed as Christians and like in like how we practice and preach, I guess.
- 17:40SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
- 17:42SPEAKER_01: So Jack, if uh people want to hang out, get in touch with you, um, how can they do so?
- 17:49SPEAKER_00: So I would suggest um message me on Instagram.
- 17:51SPEAKER_00: Like I love meeting people for coffee or lunch, so if you're wanting to do that, I'm always down.
- 17:55SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
- 17:56SPEAKER_00: Also, um my smoke groups every Tuesday at 6.
- 17:59SPEAKER_00: So if you have time.
- 18:00SPEAKER_00: I know it's a busy time then, but if you got a free hour and you want to learn more about the apostles, drop on by, you know.
- 18:07SPEAKER_01: Great.
- 18:08SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jack.
- 18:08SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
- 18:10SPEAKER_01: The Wesley Word is a production of the Clemson Wesley Foundation.
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- 18:18SPEAKER_01: Until next time, get out there and love your neighbor.