College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and their perspective on their new frontier.
Freshmen fifteen Q's
1. What is your major?
Journalism.
2. Where do you live?
Armstrong Hall.
3. Where are you from?
Sterling Heights, Mich.
4. What is your favorite cafeteria food?
The pizza in the Snyder-Phillips Hall cafeteria.
5. What do you enjoy most about MSU?
The dorm life, not living at home and being on my own.
6. What new things have you tried since you came to MSU?
I’m more open to trying new foods now. I never liked Thai food or stir fry until I had it in the Snyder-Phillips Hall cafeteria.
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7. Where do you see yourself in four years?
Hopefully writing for a publication, whether online or print.
8. How are you adapting to living in an environment with different lifestyles and cultures?
It’s nice, the high school I went to in Utica was ethnically diverse so it’s kind of a continuation with what goes on here. The main difference is that here there are people from all over.
9. How have you changed since high school graduation?
I’m a little more independent and responsible. I’m doing laundry now, and it was a wreck the first time I had to do it.
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10. How have your relationships with the people from home changed?
People who weren’t my everyday friends, we are more distant now. They’re all of out-of-state and going to different colleges. My close friends, I talk to them pretty much every day.
11. How has what you learned in high school helped you at MSU?
The content I learned in my Advanced Placement courses kind of overlapped with some of the content I’m learning in college classes.
12. How do you feel the university is doing with informing you about the resources available to you?
I feel like I’m getting e-mails and mail everyday about stuff going on. They’re very active in getting us the information we need to know.
13. Is there anything that you wished you would have known prior to coming to MSU?
I wish I would have known that my major was going to be journalism.
14. Who is your favorite professor so far and why?
Bonnie Bucqueroux. She keeps the class interesting and she’s always active and doesn’t just stand there and spoon-feed you notes. She gets everyone involved.
15. Why did you decide to go into the field you are studying?
I took yearbook classes in high school and I fell in love with it. I always liked writing; before then I was blind to the idea of pursuing writing as a profession.
Compiled by Nicquel Terry
