what's up anisa how are you doing hey i'm doing well how are you i'm doing good thanks for asking
how's your day it's going pretty well it is thankfully a really nice day outside so i'm glad
though i'm glad we could do the call outside yeah definitely i definitely agree i'm really excited
to to get your insight on on some questions that um we're gonna dive right into ready
yeah i'm ready so anisa oh i'm curious what was your campus living experience like how was the
residence halls where did you live i loved living on campus i lived in Tercero in Hawthorne Hall um
which is really close to the Tercero Dining Commons and i lived with two other roommates
and so it was pretty tight being in a triple but we made it work and i really loved living
in the dorms because you're always surrounded by people so you're you never really feel that lonely
especially when you first transition like living on your own and also it's just like nice uh to
bike back to your dorm and take in between the little breaks um it's super nice but
yeah why what about you where did you live how was that like did you live in a triple
a double a single yeah so my campus living experience um so i lived in Wall 2 in Tercero
and i actually highly encourage it you know living in the dorms i think was a lifetime it's
a once in a lifetime experience i i i'm pretty proud to say that i met some of my lifelong
friends and i think living on campus and in the dorms made that transition from high school to
college just an easier one and i completely agree it was never lonely there was always someone to
talk to there was always someone to catch by to eat at the DC and i for sure miss it but overall
i do encourage and recommend it yeah same here you weren't expecting about your first year anisa
something i wasn't expecting was how hard the classes were going to be for me i came from
a performing arts background so i didn't take as many STEM classes and going to Davis i took
i had never taken so many STEM classes in my life and i really really struggled hard and it was
somehow a blessing and a curse because it taught me that i didn't want to study science anymore
after taking all those classes but what really sucked about it is having to go through like
not doing well in a class and actually having to go through that experience of um like i even
failed i i failed one of my first classes ever um at Davis and that was definitely like really
really challenging that i wasn't expecting to go through but i'm glad i did because at the end of
the day i learned that this isn't what i want to study and i'm grateful that by doing this i know
what i want to do now yeah yeah but i'm sorry it was definitely a rough thing to go through though
yeah i definitely agree i had a similar experience where um my first year i didn't do i didn't
perform the the um at the level that i know i could have but i mean i think that's something
normal for a freshman to go through and like you said it's something that they kind of have to go
through because you're kind of like navigating through an institution where you're going to
study something for ultimately a major portion of your of your adulthood life for sure um so anissa
what is a word of advice or encouragement that you would give your freshman self if given the chance
i would definitely tell my freshman year self to ask questions ask for help because i definitely
was guilty of trying to navigate college all on my own and thinking that i had to do this all all
on my own and by myself and that i almost had too much pride to ask questions or like ask for help
and that definitely hurt me in the long run um but as you kind of progress through
your years at UC Davis you learn that asking for help is totally fine and it's encouraged and it's
just like you just learn a lot through asking for help and i actually like from doing that
i was able to figure out what i wanted to study later on and then ended up having a way better
college experience because of that um very cool what about for you what is something
that you would give your freshman year self so kind of building off of what you said um
i think i would tell myself to really put myself out there and don't be afraid to try new things
because as a freshman you know it's it's a big it's a big change going from a small high school
in a small town to a big institution where you may feel like a number and not a student
so i would have um told myself to attend those info sessions
join more clubs and just become engaged on campus to take full advantage of all the
opportunities that UC Davis has to offer um i would for sure also tell myself to
speak to your academic advisor more and create an academic plan so that you can cover all the fields
and all the courses that you're passionate about and not kind of be frantically trying to choose
classes in your third or fourth year and just kind of regretting wishing that you would have minored
in this or majored in that or taking this class at a certain time but um overall i think those those
are just a few things i would tell my freshman yourself yeah i can't forget about going to office
hours either yeah i get to know your professors for sure get to know them yeah i i agree
um it was really nice getting to know you hipolito yeah it was nice getting to know you too anisa