- Hi I'm Brad Carney.
I'm a philosophy major.
I'm a twenty here at Dartmouth which means I'm a senior.
And outside of class I'm involved in
the War and Peace Fellows.
I'm a UGA which is an RA
at other campuses but it's a little bit different.
and I'm a competitive bodybuilder
and yeah that's it.
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Typical schedule for me,
it's gonna be an early morning.
Usually I like getting up in the mornings
and starting homework.
I think I work better in the mornings
than in the late nights.
So I wake up around 6:00 6:30,
start doing homework, get some tea going
get that caffeine in.
And I'll get ready for class
I have Latin every single day
except for Tuesday at around 8:50.
So I need to be kind of awake and ready to
resuscitate you know Latin early in the morning.
After that I'll go get breakfast
class is you know about an hour.
And I'll go get breakfast after that with a friend or two.
I will you know be communicating with residents
like I said I'm a UGA here.
So I will talk to residents I fix resident's problems.
I help them find the resources that they need
to be successful at Dartmouth.
And I also have meetings
as a staff member of residential life here.
And then two days a week I also am a manager
at the gym here on campus.
So I'm in charge of making sure
that the gym is running smoothly.
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Yeah so I chose philosophy because
I'm interested in myself.
I mean that sounds terrible but
I think in order you know to even
when you started thinking about critiquing society,
you start with yourself a self critique
and then you can move that outwards towards other things.
And so having the tools and the tool set to look at
some problem and systematically go through that
and figure out the problem and solve it,
is a big part of philosophy.
And it's you know here
the tradition is analytic philosophy so
you know it's gonna be very rigorous
like premises and conclusions,
to go through problems and how to understand them.
So when I came to Dartmouth,
I actually thought I was gonna be a gov major.
I actually came from the Army.
So I thought that I wanted to continue
you know international relations government things
and I did take a couple courses in government
and I took a couple classes in philosophy
and I think that it just speaks to like what Dartmouth is.
Is that you've come in thinking
that you know exactly what you want to do
and you take a couple classes
and then something else strikes you.
So in my case it was just political philosophy
that really I was like this is my jam
and then I continued more with the philosophy track
then more so than government.
Alright so we're here at Alumni Gym,
which is the gym that students use for anything
basketball, lifting weights.
I came from the Army so I was used to running
and you know kind of lifting
but not really like powerlifting.
I came here and I was looking for
some club that I could join.
I didn't really want to join a varsity sport
because that takes a lot of time and dedication.
So I joined the Powerlifting team
it was a lot more chill.
And I was good at it I was decent at it.
And I became president of the club.
I was first a captain you know making sure
and I again I liked that.
One of the threats I have is just being a mentor
and there's lots of opportunities
for mentor and leadership here at Dartmouth.
And the club system is one of them.
So the powerlifting Club is a student-run club.
I became the captain,
help people get their lifts to
you know what they wanted to be their goals
help them achieve their goals.
And then I became president
so that I like administrative work for some reason.
I started cutting down one summer
you know everyone likes to have a nice summer body
and I just decided to start bodybuilding.
I had a coach and we I did my first show there
and I really liked it.
I was hooked and so now I just do that full-time
and I also help people lift.
I haven't stopped helping people lift so.
You know through my UGA role
and just through people I know around campus,
I also just you know make sure if someone needs help
or they want to lift with me I just do that.
So it's also just another route to help people
become a better version of themselves.
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Before I got to Dartmouth I was in the army
and I decided to when I decided I you know wanted to get out
I started researching schools,
so that you know that already that's one tip
was looking into and being specific about what it is
that you want out of your education
if that's where you're going.
And I was like very intentional that I knew
that I wanted to go to the best school I could go to.
You know coming from the Army I wasn't 100 percent sure
on like what school I could get into
but you know I took classes to show that I was serious.
Like community college classes to show I was serious
and that I could do the academic work.
A piece of advice if you're coming
from a non-traditional background,
just make sure that you have things
in your resume or your life story,
that show that you one are dedicated to something.
Whether you played, you know you're an Olympic athlete or
you're a veteran it doesn't matter.
You just want to be able to show
that you have this dedication drive
to that's required to to be at a school like Dartmouth.
And then you know additionally you want to make sure that
you have something to testify to the to the account
that you can actually do the work.
And so whether that's like community college classes
which might not transfer.
None of my credits transferred,
but it didn't really matter because I'm here.
But it at least showed that
it's like okay at this Community College
I can get straight A's.
So I might not get straight A's here which I don't,
but I can do the work.
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