- Good morning. I'm Maddie.
I'm a sophomore here at Syracuse University
and I am a double major
in television, radio, film at Newhouse.
And Information Management Technology in the iSchool.
So today I am really looking forward
to taking you guys along with me, a day in the life.
I have a super busy day today. It is currently 10:30.
I'm about to eat breakfast
and this will be the last time I am in my dorm room
until 9:30 at night tonight.
So it's gonna be a super busy day
and I cannot wait to take you guys along with me today.
So let's go!
Okay.
So I have the smallest meal plan here at Syracuse University
which means I only get about 130 meal swipes a semester.
Which is plenty, don't get me wrong.
But that means I really only eat once a day
in a dining hall.
The other meals I cook at home in my suite.
So I visited my family over the weekend
and was able to bring up some lovely leftovers.
One of them being some banana bread.
So my breakfast is gonna consist of banana bread today.
But later we'll get to go eat dinner in the dining hall
when I have one of my big little dates
for my professional fraternity.
The other dining hall plan that most freshmen start out with
is the unlimited meal swipes plan,
which means you literally can go to the dining hall
whenever you want, with whoever you want.
It's awesome.
But as I realized, I don't use as many meal swipes.
I decided to go with the cheaper group
just because I don't need it.
Okay,
so I'm headed down to the lobby to go to
my first club meeting, which is the Newhouse Ambassadors.
Basically part of that club,
I help give tours to prospective students
and it is super fun,
and I'll introduce you guys to some of the people
that are a part of my tour group.
(upbeat music)
That was so good!
Okay, so I'm here with my friend Laura, and we're like,
oh, that's too low, it's okay.
We're some of the ambassadors for SU.
But right now, while there's a tour going on,
we just did an art info session.
We're practicing our splits. - We are, actually.
- From like gymnastics days and ice-skating.
- Yeah. - Okay, you do that leg.
- I'll do this side. - Yeah, gotcha.
- Three, two, one.
(camera shutter clicks)
And we're in jeans like, that's..
Okay, I'm not that good.
In case you're wondering what clubs are like,
this is what it's like.
Okay, so I'm here with Wes right now.
And he's gonna tell you guys a little bit
about what Newhouse Ambassadors is,
and how this whole thing is really helpful
for prospective students.
- Wes Whiteside,
I'm Associate Director for Recruitment and Diversity
here at the Newhouse School and the Newhouse Visitor Center.
And my colleagues, Julie Walas, Christina Kinsey,
and Nancy Voight,
we work with the Newhouse Ambassadors to really help us
when it comes to recruiting.
We do our information sessions, whether that be virtual,
whether that be in-person, to our tours,
and our campus programs and admitted student programs.
And we really have the Newhouse Ambassadors
really kind of tell their story, right?
They're current students.
They talk about their experiences living in the dorms,
in the Newhouse courses, to travelling abroad,
to our domestic semester student.
Literally everything that has to be
being a Newhouse student.
So we really lean on them a lot.
We wouldn't have the students that we have today
without the ambassadors helping out.
(upbeat music)
- So we're currently in our programming class.
This is my first class of the day.
I've only had like club meetings today.
Yeah,
this is probably the hardest class
that we were all taking collectively,
but we're very excited.
So, yay!
So I'm here with my friend, Faith.
I just finished up all of my classes for today
and so we are eating dinner now at Ernie Davis.
And we're gonna show you some of the food that they have.
- [Faith] Okay. - Okay, Faith,
what are you eating today?
- So, today, I am eating tortellini,
which is actually so delicious.
And then I have this little green bean scenario.
And then I went a little crazy
and I put potatoes and cantaloupe on the same plate,
which I did get bullied for, but that's okay.
It tastes scrumptious.
And there's a little mini carrot, which I was also eating,
and it's so yummy.
- So yum. So yum. Okay.
And now last thing, Faith,
how would you rate your day so far on a scale of one to ten?
- Oh my god. You know, it was actually a good day.
So I'm gonna rate it like an 8.5 out of 10.
- That's a perfect day! - Yeah.
- That's so lovely.
Okay, so the last part of my day,
is I'm the new member educator
for one of the organizations I'm in, which is Zeta Phi Eta.
It's the professional fraternity
for Communications majors on campus.
And so with that,
I am blessed enough to teach the next pledge class,
which is 20 people and, or the new members.
And right now they're out making a music video
that we're gonna present to the class.
So I'm gonna show a little behind the scenes
because I think it's really fun.
But yeah,
one of the best ways to make friends on campus
is to just join an organization.
Everyone who joins clubs all has a common interest in mind,
which is a great way to just start off making friends
because you all have at least one thing in common.
So I'm gonna show you guys
what they're working on right now.
(indistinct chatter)
- Okay, so I am officially back at my dorm.
I'm eating dinner now
because the dining halls close at nine
and it is now 9:10.
So for dinner I'm just having leftover pasta
and a CapriSun.
But I hope you guys enjoyed this day in the life.
I just wanna talk about really quickly why I love Syracuse
and some of my favorite things that I get to do here
that I think is really unique,
compared to some other schools.
So one of them is that I'm a double major
and at a lot of colleges,
it's really hard to graduate with one degree,
better yet, two degrees.
And Syracuse makes it possible to study
all different types of things.
I'm studying film and cybersecurity.
The two have nothing to do with each other,
but it's two of my passions
and they're very unique in their own ways.
And I'm so grateful that I can study the both of them
and have two different opportunities when I graduate
of different career paths.
So that's something really awesome that I love here.
I also just love the community of campus.
I'm always seeing friendly faces everywhere I go.
There's so many different ways to get involved on campus.
And I can't think of a better place for me.
So, thank you guys so much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed it
and got to see some of the lovely aspects
of Syracuse University.
Yeah, have a wonderful rest of your day. Bye.