(happy lofi music)
- Hi, I'm Margaret Gilbert.
I'm a selected studies major within the School of Education.
I'm in Huntington Hall right now,
my favorite building of all time,
and I'm gonna be giving you a campus tour.
But first, we have to go upstairs
'cause I think I left something.
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Okay, come on.
Up the stairs, up the stairs.
So this is where I intern at the School of Education.
I love it, it's incredible.
The staff here are super, so nice.
What are you doing up here?
So this is another intern at the School of Ed.
His name is Alexis.
I will see you next week.
All right, we're gonna keep going down the hall,
and I'm gonna be taking y'all to Bird,
and I'm gonna take you to my favorite secret spot
of Bird that I learned freshman year.
Off we go.
Ready, ready for this nicest?
Oh my god, look at this gorgeous day.
Okay, oh, it's not jaywalking anymore.
For new incoming students,
every single person takes a really corny photo
in front of this sign.
I can give you some examples.
(camera clicks)
And that's Syracuse core at its finest.
Okay, slay, I'm gonna interview you.
Oh my god, okay, come out.
It's not scripted.
Totally genuine, 100% real interactions.
Hey, it's my roommate.
How did that happen?
Hey baby G,
how did that happen? (Gab laughs)
So this is my roommate Gab.
She's incredible. - Hi.
- Tell us a little about yourself, Gab.
- So I'm a junior here at Syracuse.
I'm a double major
with women and gender studies
and political science. - She's so smart.
She's so smart.
- I love SU so much. (Margaret laughs)
The weather is great.
I was just doing some work in Schine.
This is one of my favorite places to do work.
(Margaret gasps)
- There's literally Otto right there.
There's literally Otto right there.
Otto, can I say hi to you?
Yes.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's Otto.
It's our school mascot, we love.
Ay, ay, ay, ay.
Yes.
Wow.
What's the odds that just happened to me right now?
Hey.
(laughs)
That's a Theta, that's a fellow Theta.
I'm in Kappa Alpha Theta.
It's incredible.
The philanthropy, it means so much to mi casa.
So life hack, if you ever are on a hot day
and you wanna lay on the quad, if you lay in that area,
everybody always goes over there as you can see.
(upbeat electronic pop music)
But over here, it's equally as good.
Nobody ever sits over here and it's so nice
and you're also really close
to that house over there that always plays music.
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'Kay.
Okay, so this is Bird Library.
Here is Pages Cafe.
It's one of my favorite spots to get a coffee, get a bagel.
So we're gonna take the elevator all the way up
to the sixth floor.
My secret spot.
Ooh, a new exhibit.
This is a really incredible area to be in in Bird.
All of this incredible art.
This floor is also the quietest
so we're gonna be a little quiet while we're walking in.
But as you see, quiet study room.
No one's here.
This is awesome.
(gasps) Oh my God, no one's here.
(chill electronic pop music)
A bunch of my friends live in Booth.
I lived in Booth my sophomore year.
I lived on the eighth floor and I absolutely loved it.
So I'm back and I'm holding the camera now.
This is Bridget.
We're going up to her room. - Hey.
Yes. - It's incredible.
So this is a room that I love hanging out in.
All of my friends are here.
It's so much fun.
It's so great.
It's really nice to be able to walk away from my apartment
and go back to Booth, which are like my roots.
Walking down these halls is so nostalgic.
Oh my gosh.
Probably my favorite part
about Booth is this view that we get of the Dome.
So highly recommend Booth if you're a sophomore.
(chill electronic pop music)
And this is Sims Hall.
I had my ASL 102, my very first ASL class.
I took it in this building
and it's actually where I found my love for sign language.
I was originally an inclusive elementary
and special education major
and I did the Block program that we have where you go
to local Syracuse schools
and you teach for a whole semester
and I absolutely loved it,
but I just kinda realized that it was,
it takes up a lot of time and it's very intense
and that was just something
that I didn't think I wanted to do,
so I transferred into selected studies.
But I still love it.
The education program is something that,
it's actually like the reason why I decided
to go to Syracuse.
I love all of like the outreach programs
that they have here.
It's something that when I was touring other schools,
something that I didn't see,
where you were actually in a classroom
and hands-on learning.
And even though I'm a selected studies major,
I still have so many opportunities to teach,
so it's just super incredible.
I'm getting a little whiplash right now of memories.
It's really weird to think that I'm a junior now and I feel
like I've been here for five seconds
and suddenly I'm like about to graduate in a year
which is really scary.
But I definitely say as just some advice to freshmen,
just have a good time
and know that like,
everything is gonna work out the way that it should.
And I was really nervous my freshman year
'cause I wanted everything to be perfect,
and I wanted my college experience
to be like the typical college experience.
But it doesn't have to be that
and it can be anything you make it, and whatever you do,
it's gonna work out in your favor.
So that's my advice, yeah.
Oh, I'm already feeling it in my knees.
I'm just kidding, that wasn't that bad.
(tape squeals)
Those are the mount stairs.
How wonderful are they?
Okay, so my freshman year I lived in that room.
You definitely can't see it on camera.
It's really nice
because the Mount feels very self-contained.
Like, once you go up the stairs,
you're in a whole different community.
There's dining hall, there's a food bar,
there's a convenience store.
The most beautiful sunsets
and sunrises I think I honestly might have ever seen
in my whole entire life, I've seen on this Mount.
Also, I will say another good thing
about the Mount is pod bathrooms.
The pod bathrooms, instead of a big communal bathroom,
there's individual pods with a shower, toilet, sink,
and they're honestly pretty big too.
So you have a lot of space.
It's great.
(upbeat pop music)
- So this is the end of our tour.
Thank you guys so much for following along with me.
I love Syracuse and it's such a great place,
and hopefully, maybe I'll see you guys around.