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- I'm Sam Clark with Crimson Education
and we're here at Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore, Maryland to ask some big questions.
Let's do it.
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- [Sam] What is the best thing about Hopkins?
- The best thing about Hopkins is probably
how cool all the people are.
People are interested in a lot of different things
and I think we're all just really creative people.
- Probably just the environment,
that like the culture breeds.
I like how it's competitive, but also we can have some fun.
- I really like how open the professors are to
talking to us and meeting with us and
they're really helpful, yeah.
- The amount of opportunities that you can do.
You can just branch out into whatever
field of science that you want
and you don't feel like you have to be
pressurized or limited to one specific field.
Yeah, you can just use as many resources
as you can and, yeah it's just really easy.
- A lot of the faculty are doing really really
cool research and being a part of that,
seeing that, you know having the amenities
that we have, is really really inspiring everyday.
- So, I would say the campus just because
it's really pretty.
- I definitely think the people here.
They're very genuine and very good people.
- [Sam] What's the worst thing about Hopkins?
- Classwork.
- (laughing)
- That one's not as hard, yeah.
- Sure, sure, so what's your major?
- I'm computer science.
- Okay, that sounds hard.
- The culture.
A lot of people just study all day.
- I feel like there's often a disconnect
between the student body and the administration.
Sometimes some of the decisions they make
don't necessarily seem to correspond
with what the student body believes.
So, a little bit more transparency there,
something that I would hope for personally
and I think the rest of the student body
would to.
- The food.
- I'd second that.
- (laughing) That was quick.
- (laughing)
- What makes it so bad?
- It's just like the same thing over and over again
every single day for lunch and dinner.
So like --
- It's definitely anywhere, you get bored
of it after a while when you're eating three meals.
- Fair enough.
- If you don't have your time management down,
then it becomes really hard to be able to just
schedule things and be able to do
many things you wanna do.
So, I mean, as long as you have that down,
then it's manageable, yeah.
- Sometimes people care about school
a little bit too much and they're like
a little stressed about it, so maybe
just like, how stressed people are about
school and how sometimes they can't focus on
other things.
- Totally.
What do you tend to do on weekends here?
- I study.
(laughs)
- Fair enough, there's a lot of
biomedical engineering to get through.
- Well, I'm on the women's lacrosse team
so I travel a decent amount for games
or practice, so it's usually my weekends
in the spring.
- A lot of the time I'm just like relaxing and
I mean, last weekend was pretty crazy
because of the spring fair but um --
- For people who don't know, what is that?
- Spring fair is this like uh
it's like our fun weekend I guess.
- Sure.
- We have like a bunch of food vendors come in.
A lot of different events,
like start off with fireworks and stuff.
- Definitely go out a decent amount, but
I know a fair number of people who have to study
just because of the academic rigor
of this university and the school itself.
So, yeah, there's options to have fun
but again like, I guess tying into
one of the more difficult things about the school
is that it's very very serious and
sometimes there's not as much time to let loose
and enjoy yourself.
- Do my work, or like hang out with friends, I guess.
Especially when it's nice out.
- There's definitely a portion of it doing work,
but then, you know, hanging out at night time
and going to dinner and relaxing a little bit.
- Awesome.
And last question, what did you write
your college application essays about?
- I wrote my college application essay
about juggling.
- Juggling?
- Yeah, juggling.
- Alright.
Do you still juggle?
- Uh, no not really.
I mean I can juggle but not as well.
- (laughing) alright fair enough.
- I moved halfway through high school
so I wrote mine about that transition
and how I handled that.
- I wrote my college application essay
about riding the bus
and like how in my community
I met a lot of people through riding the bus
and how that was a really important part
of my childhood.
- My, I think --
so in high school I had to get surgery on
my ankle and I was out for like, five months
from lacrosse so I wrote it on that
and like, my comeback.
- Amazing.
Go Jays.
Sorry, 1..2..3..
Go Jays!
- Jays!
Oh --
(laughing)
- That was, yeah no, good work.
Alright.
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