Welcome back to another episode of choices, a university studies podcast. Today's episode, we are going to be interviewing one of our own advisors in university studies with us today is sharing Grayson. She is actually at a university, a Delaware alum twice, I believe, to both your bachelor's and master's. So we're going to be interviewing her today. Both Sylvia and I. This is Tyler speaking. And we will be interviewing her today because like a lot of our university studies students, they go through different iterations of ideas and majors. And that is something that I think even after college, we kind of go through as well. We go through different iterations of careers and ideas and sharing is no exception. So we're happy to have her here today to talk about her experiences. Sharon, thanks for joining the pod Soviet empire. I am so excited to be here. I was waiting for this all. I'm I'm such a dork. I really, really thrilled to be here. So thank you so much for having me are definitely be like a little resume point to put on as well, like featured speaker episode blank of choices, the podcast. So vain. And so I'm going to be a celebrity after that. So I think just to kind of get us started shared, why don't you tell us a little bit about, I guess, what you do at UD which is pretty similar to what we like Sylvia and I do, but kinda what you do at Udi and I guess on where personal Know What kind of brought you to Judy as well. That's an interesting story too, though. I'm glad to share that. So again, I'm a University Studies Advisor and I've been in that role for a little bit over seven years. And besides advising a general undeclared population, I also help with our world scars, our Instagram account, and our purely exons, among other things, I wear wear many different hats like Mr. B. Advisors do. And my background when I was at Udi was in communication both in undergrad and grad. So before this role, among other things and maybe what we'll get into it. I taught communication classes, so that's still something that I do once in a while at UD and also teach first-year seminar. So I really do still enjoy that role of teaching. And what brought me to Udi. There's very, very, I think it's interesting and it's kind of like one of those he was destined to happen, I think stories. Okay. So undergrad grad at University of Delaware in the early 2 thousand and after I graduated from grad school, I spent five years in Maryland as an adjunct and supplementing that because IT adjunct, maybe our listeners don't know, but being an adjunct is kind of a hard life because you don't necessarily always get a lot of classes to teach and you don't get health benefit. So I was kind of living the adjunct gla. And supplementing it with even being a host, is that a restaurant? And also probably what, what really one of the things that led me to more advising full-time is one of the summers where I was adjunct doing at house in I got an email if anybody wanted to help out over summer, get extra pay and advise students in this program that they called TU cares. And it was actually for communication majors coming in new and transfer students. And I started that and that was the very beginning of my advising and it kind of went from there. But after and five years of adjunct dang it, several institutions doing more advising. I was just tired of the adjunct life and I was ready to have just a fulfilling job get benefit. And I kind of came to my employers and said, you know, that this is what I need and they're like, we we love you, we love to have you on, but we just can't we can't punish you for anything more the refunding you for now. So I started getting my resume out. And so again, I was in Maryland and at the same time, I was getting more serious with my boyfriend who is now my husband and he was in Delaware. But we're like, we'll we'll figure this out. A job somewhere else. Maybe we'll move IQ, we just said. So I got my my resume out. I was applying to different kinds of communication jobs and academic jobs, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, Delaware, all of those kinds of things. And obviously I felt like Delaware was always a home away from home since I was so used to a for six years that I would have loved to come back. That would have been easy for myself and my my now has been said about my resume out there. And one of the resume as was for the role that I currently have. And you like it was meant to be on so many levels. Rage. So oh, Soviet digest. So say, I wanted to ask about your experiences as a student at UT because you are the only advisor who has been an undergraduate at the University of Delaware. What was that like? It was great. I really loved being at UD even when I went on tours, like bells, amazing. And it felt like the place I wanted to be. And I don't have that too much in life like those moments where it's like, oh, like even for my wedding, I was like, I've never had that moment like this is the dress. And I said yes to the dress, but u d, u d was kind of like that. And I'm so happy to go there, meet a lot of friends that I still have today, ones in my major ones, my sorority and other things that, that I joined. I came into college, not really sure what I wanted to do, but I did stick with a major the whole way through by had communication, but I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with it. But I was glad that I did go for the communication major because they gave me this broad scope. Of things that I could do as I think about my time in the professors there, especially going from undergrad to grad school. I mean, they really weren't mentors. So I definitely suggested to all students to really go above and beyond and talk to your professors, talk about their research, try to get involved with it. Because I really did feel supported. Classes are big. Definitely experienced that. But when you get to the more detailed classes or if you put yourself out there to find out what your professor Those were doing, then you really do feel that support. So I had a great time. I really don't know how else to describe it. I immersed myself. I wanted to football games. I walked Main Street and tried all the different restaurants in, in my ears. And I recommended, I have nothing really bad to say about my college experience and I love that among the other side of the desk now, because although things have changed, policies have changed in stores on Main Street, you'd have changed. I feel like I can relate to students in that way and have that knowledge of, you know, having my degrees up there. Well, I guess one when we're in person, they're still sitting in my office and the students can see them and we can reflect on my major or my experience there. Do you think you've influenced some of your students to declare communication? I actually do. And it's funny because I try to keep it quiet for as long as I can. Because that's not something that's on your degree. You know what your major was that they wouldn't really know in any way. But there have been a lot of students that are deciding between a few things or they mentioned communication and you're like, I don't know what I'm gonna do with that or my parents don't want me to do that or or something like that and I try to hold back as long as I can, but sometimes it just comes out when we talk about and you're like, I really don't know and I'm like, well, we could be me. I was a communication major too. So I think that I don't know if I would say influenza, but we definitely have that conversation. And I'm able to talk about my experience and I've even had other advisors with students that are interested in and communication come talk to me because I can, I can talk about my experience with the, you know, you have to take these four classes and that's the top 100 now it's 125 to get in. And, you know, you can go in this pathway or this pathway. So yeah, definitely have talked to my students about IT. Like I said, I don't want them to know right away because I don't want to feel like, you know, I'm putting I never want to put that pressure on the street. I'd like to do as I do or don't do as I did. But when the time is right, I've definitely had that that conversation with them and it's usually a good conversation. I have that same reservation about sharing like. Like that because I hope I DO urge students subconsciously to major in what I've majored in, but I just know more about it and I'm more excited about those subjects. Luckily, we don't have a theater major, so I can't be like you should major in theatre. But we have the miners, I guess you can like the exact opposite. But I think it's also because I never run into students who want to major, but I did thank you only about sub one thing that and I was just talking to Catherine about this earlier that I never do. Like for example, even if a student is out like a 1 and they really have hopes of accounting, I never say like You can't do this. That's nigh on my vocabulary. I'll say like, let's develop a backup plan unless you make priorities and think about other things that I never even when my friends that were lawyers were telling me, I don't know how it is now, but like five years ago, like tell your students, like don't go to law school like Buto and things like that. I still like I kept that in my mind but I still I don't now, I have a hard time doing that. I also have a hard time doing that. During this, My husband always jokes that I, what I say to students all the time as you can be whatever you want to be. I like things like that and I'm like, it's like a running household. Do I never say either tears out there. There's kind of like both way. Like don't go into this and you can be whatever you want to be. And I'm kind of in the middle. So let's let's kind of figure this out. Sharing. You had said something earlier about how you stuck with a major, but there was a lot of uncertainty as far as the utility of it, how you are going to put it to use. What was your experience in navigating that uncertainty with your major and what you want it to do with it. Right? So when I was in high school, a big background that I had coming out of high school or what's fashion merchandising classes. So I thought going in that I wanted to do something with fashion merchandising. When I was coming out of high school and applying, I put Communication as my first choice, major and fashion merchandising as a second choice. And talking about parental influence. When I was thinking about going to college, I was actually thinking about going to FIT and New York and really pursuing bash and by my parents and I had conversations where we talked about, you know, I could go into fashion but maybe having a broader base. And I wouldn't say that they influenced me in that way, but I started to understand if I if I wanted to go in that way. So I thought I would do something with communication and fashion. And I also really have always loved music. Sounds like maybe I'll do public relations in, in music. And then it's like your experiences that you have. So I stopped really having experiences with fashion merchandising. I enjoyed music, but I wasn't going to all the concerts that I did in high schools that kinda waned. And what I really enjoyed was listening to my professors talk about. What they did and really thinking about staying in academia. So I would say I was very kind of in tune with what was going on in my life and what was kind of just going, you know, what was more forefront going into college and to know what was coming kind of the background like I still like these things like always like fashion and like music. But what am I interested in right now? So I was interested in that and potentially being in academia. I was also interested in not right away going into the job field as I came closer and closer to graduation. And I was just like, I'm not ready. I want to I want to learn more. I want to see more. And because I was saying that I really admired my professors as like okay, like taking that altogether, I'm going to go to grad school. I forgot 11 little aside. So right before I decided to go to grad school and like I said, to learn or ands is still beyond on a college campus. I had a little thought. Maybe I wanted to go into law that I think a lot of this came from not only like the Legally Blonde error, but also I had at the time boyfriend who was going pre-law at Cornell. So for some reason I was like, I want to do that too. So I actually took the LSA and the GRE at the same time and then decided like, what do I want to do? Why do I want to do with my life? And I went to grad school and I think that was a great decision because at that point, I still didn't necessarily know what I wanted to do. And I was like, I want to do something in maybe strategic communication. I had an internship where he did strategic communication. I also started to think in grad school that I might want to do teaching because I was a TA and I taught a course. So I think it was just very little by little kind of how I tell my students like one day you're not going to wake up and know exactly what you want to do. I think it was just reading room and reading my life at the moment. And what was kind of important to me, what I like then and what I wanted to do next. So I hope that answers what what you are trying to ask. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I think that's great. That you had that self-awareness that you didn't want to go into the job market right after undergrad. I think that helps a lot. Self-awareness helps so much in a career journey. Because when you don't realize those things and you just kinda go with something else. That's when you end up doing things that you're going to regret. Because there's always those outside influences. And the one that I mentioned about, well, maybe I should go to law school. And then I had a roommate who was going into accounting and how they do it. They find out about their jobs in the fall like so many months before and she was I don't know if this is appropriate or not, but she was writing out when her her job offers like the salary was and I kind of knew like, I'm not gonna get anything like that because there were all these these kind of outside influences of things to do. But I just had that self-awareness like that's a great salary, but I can't do math and I'd be horrible. You have to take for business or, you know, who's, your aim is law like mine or that boyfriend that I'm the die more. It's probably not like when it seems like him Legally Blonde. So do I do I really want that? So when it came down to it, it really is that that soul searching for yourself. And for me, it was more education and seeing where it was going to go. I think what's also kind of important in that story is that despite that uncertainty, it did it stop you from still casting a wide net and exploring those interests Again, I think a lot of times, at least with students and probably even myself when I was in school, there's always an expectation that yet needs to all be settled at that point. By the time you're 22. And it's kinda funny because 22, I've felt like that was a huge kind of identity crisis at that point because you're in kind of nearing the end of this whole four-year experience. If you started college at the age of 18 and now you're kind of re-evaluating like, Okay, I can't make any further changes at this point. Is this what I still won? And so the fact that you were able to kind of face that, I guess, if we want to talk developmental terms that identity crisis head on and not kind of go into this moratorium and just kind of like pulling yourself up and I'm going to be comfortable and just not make a decision about anything. I think a lot about were where you were in that self-awareness? Yeah. And I feel like even though I knew what I wanted my major to be and I stuck with that major. That doesn't necessarily mean I knew like everything that was going to happen and just the different development and growth that I've had myself. I mean, there's tons of things that I tossed around that would still be in that communication realm. So I was, you know, fashion and music and align public relations and advertising and, you know, kind of corporate communications and strategic communications and non-profit communications. So even though I stayed consisted in my major, my mind was kind of all over. And how can I use this major or how can I use everything that I've learned so that didn't stay consistent. Like I wasn't somebody who came in. Like, I want to be a doctor and this is it. And I went straight way. One major, but I was always, constantly thinking about what I wanted to do. And I arrived at the end saying I'm not ready to make that choice, but I love learning, I love education. I've always been that person and I was like the little first, second grade or when the teacher would ask like who was being in school, I'd raise my hand and I was like the only one. Like I've always loved learning. I've always loved being in school. So when I had that chance to go to school and learn and kind of use that time to think like, oh, what do I, I really wanted to do? And that changed in grad school to go. So going into grad school, I thought maybe I still wanted to do some strategic communication type job, either corporate, non-profit, even public relation, something like that. But myself being a TA and teaching and learning more about research and the professors kind of guided me to teaching. And then that teaching led to advising. And it is just the process that kind of goes from place to place and you never know where, where you're going to end up. But I'm very, very happy where I ended up at. Now note, no matter what, whether it's in teaching, advising something else. I can't ever imagine not being on a college campus like that's it for me. I love it ever since I was in undergrad grad and then adjunct and advising. I've never left a college campus. I love it. So you are talking about how even though you chose a major and you stuck with it, there was still uncertainty and decisions that you had to make. And I think that's important to note and I'm not trying to scare students. But when I hear students saying like, Everything will be like so much better once I choose a major. Like everything will be solved once I choose a major. And I'm just sitting there thinking, choosing a major is not going to fix your indecision. That re re Exactly that was what I described and that's what happened with me. It wasn't like especially with something like communication. And most of the majors that are UD, it's not like this one pathway and we talk about all the time. So there's not like I don't know, I can't even make it up like a community case, str or whatever. Like. If you do this major, then you become communicates stir. I'm I think I'm thinking about, about friends and an episode. We know that Sharon didn't major in linguistics, title of some sort, but it wasn't this street pathway. So I constantly was thinking about which direction that I was going and choices that I have had students see what I did there. But yeah, I think that just having a major and being being confident in your major, it very correctly, as you said, it doesn't, it doesn't solve. Still not knowing what you want to do with it, especially when you have a broad major and you can do so much. That is definitely, I think a pro and con. Sometimes it's a pro because you have so many options and you can kind of specialize and go in different ways. Maybe with your miners or you're networking or your part-time jobs and internships can kind of steer you to where you need to be. But then it can also be a con, because there's, it's just like having a menu and there are so many choices like that can be really overwhelming that I have this major on these skills that can go so many. So which one do I want? Like, where do I really want to be? Is it the right one for me? I see it more as it just is. It's not necessarily a good or a bad thing. It's just a fact. Like one decision isn't like the end-all be-all. It will lead to another thing you have to decide. Kinda like how like we talked about accounting a lot, Tyler. But it's a good example because that is like a major that leads to a certain job by even as an accountant or as an accounting major. When it comes time to graduate our finish, usually a master's degree. If you're doing the combined program, then you have to pick, well, where do you want to go? If there are five different employers who are extending offers to you, that's another choice you have to make. And I I think it's only a con when at the indecision or the choices, or when you feel negative about the choices are having choose. But having those choices is it's always a pro to have choices. I gotta say yeah, yeah, because if you don't have a choice, if only one employer is saying, yeah, sure, I'll take you and that's not really a choice that your choices are to go ahead and take it or not, you know, right? I guess my point is that it's just interesting how when you haven't made a choice, you think that once you make that choice, that it's, it's good, you're good, and it's over. It's like no, that's not the case. And it never ends it whether it's academics or other personal things as, as you get older. But I think we talked a lot about the age of 22 and I think at that time, we can say between 1822, when you're kind of deciding upon those things, it just feels so weighty. And maybe it's parental influences, maybe it's kinda the pressure that, that students put on themselves. But I feel like throughout the years that I've been advising, I feel like every year it seems like a more important decision and more weighty decision. And like I mentioned, some of the places where it might come from, but I don't really know exactly. But students really do feel this pressure like I need to get this exact major to get this exact career. And it's going to be this cookie cutter kind of thing or this magic bullet pathway or something like that. But that's just the first of many decisions that you're going to have to pay. So get ready on a positive. From what you had said, making a choice can often lead you to discovering something that you didn't even realize was a choice for sure. And that's something that I tell students all the time when they don't want to commit to a major because they're like, well, what am I gonna do with it? And I'm like, commit to the major first, and then you'll find out what you're gonna do with it. You don't have to know ahead of time. And I think that's also important, is knowing that you can't, you might not know, you might not discover the choice that you want to make until you make all the choices before it. But you have to decide something and something else will keep coming along the way when you are afraid or you're talking about. But that's basically like what happens here. You made one choice, it led to something else. It led to this, that lead to that. And that's all all of us. That's all we do. Exactly when I look back now and I I kind of at the beginning you don't see where it's going to go, but now I kind of see what all of that has has led up to. Like, if I didn't do this, then this wouldn't have happened in this wouldn't have happened. But you can't see it clearly at the beginning. I think that's very hard to do or impossible. But when you our inner career, at whatever stage and you kind of look back, you see how it got you to where you are, even if in the moment she didn't know where you are going to go. Well, that's one reason why I like hearing the stories of those who work in higher education. Because nobody goes to college, nobody graduates high school thinking that they are going to pursue a career in higher education. Nobody does because nobody knows what those jobs are. They have no experience. They haven't been to college. You don't know that you want to work at a college until you've gone to college? No. I would agree with that. I didn't even as much as I said that I loved school and I love learning. I didn't even think I wanted to be a teacher in any way. And as we said, I'm an instructor and advisor and vising is very much like, like teaching as well. But I didn't think of those things at all. I was just thinking things that had to do with communication, but I use those skills Definitely a lot. But like you're saying, I didn't know what was available and I didn't necessarily know that I even wanted it, you know, at the time. I did want to at least kind of remark on what you had said about students who make me choosing a major or careers or anything like that. The, these increasingly weighty decisions and how sometimes that can come for different influences such as parental figures. I think it's because I wonder if there's such a big fear of making mistakes because there's been these hard lessons or examples that were made of a flight. You don't want to end up like XYZ person because that's what happened to them. I don't know if that's what's being tie like this, just conjecture. But it's that fear is also in itself something that can never be assuaged. I mean, you can be as methodical in your decisions as possible and think that you have everything fully secured in whatever decision you make. But it is, nothing is ever going to be guaranteed with that. That's the dark reality. What may seem like the best and most secure decision and choice may end up being a mistake, me and right hand or just not work out. You might decide you want to go. And so one feel, I kind of talk about this all the time, but where you live, that's not that industry. You're going to go nowhere. So then you have to move, but then you decide you don't want to move, then you go in a different direction. Because, you know, it, it's a circumstance. It's all those values that we tell students to, to think about. Would you move for a job? How do you want your work-life balance to be? How much do you care about salary? How much do you care about? Will you be sitting at a desk or out in the field? So I think that's a product of circumstance too, and I think it's something that we don't consider until maybe we have internships or we look things up about the different careers and, and things like that. That you might have this plan in mind. But it's not necessarily something you do. It's just kind of external variable like view, if you will. And it might even be a family circumstance. You might have to move somewhere to take care of an aging parent. So what you thought you were going to do doesn't work out but when you find something else. Yeah, well, I think we are living through a very great example of circumstances affecting your life that are out of your control. And I've said this before, you can't predict the future. So when students talk about careers that offer security or like a guaranteed thing, I'm like Nothing is guarantee. Nothing is secure. Jobs 30 years ago that were very secure, whatever no longer exist because of certain technological advances. So you don't know what's going to happen. And then, you know, a virus takes over the world and shut things down. And that affects so many jobs that people thought were very secure and they're NIH. I was thinking that exact same thing, like how was one to predict this. And if you thought in your mind, potentially, I'm going to have this very safe and secure job that because of what's going on, that that might not have happen. So in the end, and this is hard just like everything else. You kind of have to go with your feelings. And as I was saying, are your self-awareness and what you like and what's working for you at the moment. Because how can we forecast? We wouldn't be able to make any decisions, right? If we're just thinking about, oh, then what? This is going to go wrong. C2 happens, so it has to be a product of, of your circumstances too. And then I guess just like in everything else, we just have to hope for the best. We enjoy it. It's something that we can see ourselves, you know, getting up every day, being excited about or as much as we can be because right now, not everyone I say every day is excited about their major or their job. You know, that that would be impossible by it is hard to predict. So asking those questions can help a little bit because there is some sense of what's more secure and less secure, what's growing, what's fading away. But we can't be a 100% sure. This pandemic has really, really shown that. As funny as I tell students that they can't plan for all the jobs because by the time they graduate, there are going to be so many more jobs that didn't exist when they entered college, right? Here's a very bad example of like two years ago, nobody's thinking I'm going to be a tiktaalik stuff by now. So many people like they're banking on it. There are a lot of people who have made careers on that, but that's not something they could have planned for two years ago, you know. Right. But it might still be something in their skill set, like venue, like I'm somebody who, you know is creative. They're not all creative skills that's due. Do you need? But what I'm, what I'm really trying to say is that you might not have known that like exact thing because it wasn't there. But there's those certain underlying personality traits or skills that will get you there for this job that you don't know even exist has that may make sense. It does. I think actually the whole tick tock start thing is actually a really great example because it both shows an example of something that literally didn't exist two years ago that could be a that could be a viable option. It also shows itself as an example of how quickly it can no longer be an option as well. So I think it's actually a great example of how sudden something can become viable and how suddenly it can no longer be. I think they even kind of I had been wanting to kind of put this in the form of a question for you, Sharon, but I think our conversations had already kinda answer day wishes that you, in contrast to at least me, you are much more go with the flow about things and kind of thinking on your feet and determining things in advance. I, however, probably identify more with our students because I agonize over assessing all of the risks and making very calculated decisions about inks, which makes for great planning when it comes to Lake, a trip or something, but I haven't the worst if anything goes wrong. Or maybe it seems like that for a major or but in other parts of my life I would say definitely relate to that. You know, really like. Ising and sometimes being a perfectionist as their control freak. But yeah, it wasn't really, I feel like it's not so much that way, I guess about major or what I'm gonna do. But it's like the other kind of details or, or things in my life that I really work. I think everybody can be very decisive when it comes to certain things and then very indecisive with other things. It's just it's where we're most comfortable making decisions. Yeah. And where we see things having more consequences based on our own experiences. This is turn. It's like a very philosophical, you know, I'm sorry, that's my file. This is going to be li I know you edit it, but I think the stuff we've discussed today would actually is given to be I think it's good. I think it's really good. We were talking again. So here's a final question for you. This is one of those off the wall questions that are usually asked in interviews. Now normal Fulham, I'm able to say, this is one of my favorites just because people come up with really creative answers sometimes. Would you describe yourself as a spoon, a fork, or a knife? Woman? Wow. He had an interview. Urine smells like answer it quickly and right away. But I'm Mike really trying to think about it. You know, in an interview you can actually take some time and be like that's a really great question. Let me think about that for a second. Like you could take time. Yeah. Wow. That is a really hard one. Well, you've never been asked that before? No, I haven't been asked that before. I feel like I've heard it *** but not of me. And it's one that I was like, oh, if I'm not being asked, I don't even have to think I guess because you don't change jobs as often as I have. So when I hear those weird interview questions, I'm like, Oh, what would my answer be if I got asked that? So I do like, try to come up with answers to them. And I have been asked them before, but I've been on far more interviews than you have. Which sounds like a brag, but it's absolutely the opposite. I guess I would say a spoon because I think backs the utensil the most. That is, we can kind of physically get closer to the other one. And that's something that's important to me even in a figure. And one way, you know, being able to get close to people. And also in another way, I'm What are those people that need something like on them like a weighted blanket or or something like that. So what I can imagine spoons, I mean, I don't want to be like cliche, but the whole legs spinning thing, although obviously that that comes to mind. But I want this in the project I built. I don't mind because I'm not saying it for the spooning way. I'm saying it, which I think is a nice sentiment that I like being able to get physically close to people. And I also feel like I'm a person who I don't even know what would be called. Like, I love Blaine gates. I love hearing like CPR and I feel like spoons do that. We're going to answer. I like, I don't know how people how do people normally ends with? Well, usually because it's asked in an interview setting, I guess I wouldn't say that. You wouldn't say that because that's more of like a personal vague, although it could depend on where you're interviewing because I could see that answer being appropriate. If you edited it down a little bit in certain settings where being like a warm and caring person matters. But things that I've heard is like, oh, I'd be the four because it's the most. Cuz they decided it was the most useful. Whereas some people have said spoon because they thought it was the most useful thing about US at all. Somebody said knife because they are to the point. Even though forks have more points than an iPhone, I don't think knife necessarily has a point. Yeah, no, I don't like thinking visually of them. No, I don't like you you put some about in whatever sound is appropriate to. Like the most basic answer would be, I'm a spoon because I'm well rounded. That Matt would bang. When I was interviewing for my practicum and grad school. I totally forgot this, but my supervisor brought it up later. And she said, I really like your answer for this question. And I was like, what you asked me this question. I don't remember it and I don't remember the answer. But it was like, what piece of playground equipment are you and why? And I think what my answer was was a seesaw because I like things to be well balanced, but I was like That makes no sense. Why would I say that? Because the whole point of a seesaw is that you're not balance, cuz that's not fun. You have to go up and down, isn't it? I would say that I would be swaying. Because to me, you kind of ramp up the adventure. And I like to be adventurous. Like I just think like a swing as, I don't know why having adventure with the momentum, the momentum of adventure. And in my life, I think I've done some adventures things. I've been bungee jumping and skydiving and this past January I held an alligator. I don't know. I feel like I've done adventurous things. So I I associate like adventure with a swing, so I like my answer for that one. Actually. Anyone else have any fun ones? I'll I'll go ahead and I do this just for my own amusement. So we were talking about movies that kind of like made us the movies that made us what we are really pivotal in our childhoods or adolescent years. What is one movie from your past that you think shaped you or one of those it's kind of like pivotal to who you are besides Legally Blonde. A classic. Thoroughly. If it's not a very like serious and meaningful answer, like. Very dramatic, like changed my life kind of thing. But what I watched in those kind of coming of age years, Kevin Smith, movies like clerk smaller asked chasing me. And I love those because I started watching them I guess a little bit before. Technically, like my parents would have like want to me to watch them. And I watch them with who is still now one of my best friends, but I guess they got me cuz I mean, that the content is definitely mature. So got me into, I guess, you know, questioning things and, you know, thinking about things. And I would say that I'm still a person. I've said this a lot in this interview that likes to learn new things as though I was learning about like these new things that were in the movie is for the first time. And it also resonated with me because a lot of the movies took place in New Jersey and I didn't say this before, but I'm originally from New Jersey, so my friends and I would actually go around. And this it just seems like maybe now doesn't seem I gave it a it seemed like a cool thing that we were doing is we would go around to like where the movies films or even not where they were films, but the the different places that they, that they said in the movie like these that I went to this school or you went to this car and we would we would kind of do it. So to me, that's what what I really kind of think back on those movies, just allowing me to expand my horizons, learn about new things. And if I add two, again related to, to today, I hope that I'm always, constantly doing math, learning new things and also having a little bit, a little bit of fun along the way, just like we were going to all the places where the Belton's probably random, random answer but it's like the quickest. Or if I had time, if I had these questions all out and prepare and be able to give like this. And now we don't want a deep answer. We want something honest. And I think I was very honest. Ins I would've never in a 100 years pegged to be somebody that was like, yeah, I watched all these Kevin Smith movies growing up. I would have never. Yes. Wow. I still watch them when we want to take the time to thank Sharon for coming to join us on the pod today. Share and thanks so much for joining us and giving insights, your experience at U D, what you do now and your love of Kevin Smith as well? Well, again, thank you so much for having me. I'm well, everyone, thank you for tuning in to another episode of choices, a university studies podcast.

Choices: Episode 5 - Interview with UST Advisor Sharon Grayson

From Sylvia Lee November 18, 2020

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Get to know more about one of the academic advisors in UST: Ms. Grayson. We talked with her about her major and career journey and all the decisions involved along the way. We also asked a couple of fun job interview questions and found out which movies helped shape her adolescence.

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