Life as an Out-of-State Student at MAC

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It's weird to see my name is Allie Bennett.

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OK, so I think some people are starting to trickle in. Welcome to life as an out of state student at Mac, web and R.

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Sure thanks Matt. Um Yeah. So as Matt said, my name is actually Roberta shedding, so one of the out of state counselors I focus on Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia, but I also handle applications throughout the central part of the US and also parts of the South. I'm actually in alone with Natala Wishez. I graduated in 2008.

And I've had several different career experiences since then. For the last four years I worked and lived in Italy, teaching English, and I can say that my experience at Mac actually really helped me prepare me for my career and life. I recently moved back to Crescent just within the last year and have been working at Max. So for about a year now and I really feel like I'm back home. I was actually born and raised in Crescent, so I'm free to answer any questions about Mount Ala wishes, but I also know a lot.

About the town of Crescent as well. So thank you all for joining.

Yeah, that's a question that I get quite a lot from different students is, you know it's it's normal to wonder where you're going to live on campus, so you'll be living in one of our five residence halls. Impson seems to be the most popular one now that is on a first come first serve basis, and that's based on your deposit date. So if you haven't put your deposit in that something kind of, keep in mind.

That's a great question for me, so we actually have a lot of different clubs and organizations. I'm, I know if I was a student, I'd probably be really excited about a lot of the different clubs and things that we have, so I don't know if I can join some of them. I know we have one that's called Paranormal Club and I feel like that would be kind of an interesting way to meet different people on campus. We also have different concerts and things like that that are available to participate in in different things like that. Do you have any like clubs that you've sort of?

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Sure yeah so we have a variety of different students that have a lot of different you know some people have cars some people don't we have bus shuttles that go periodically to surrounding towns so we have evansburg Altoona that have a lot of different shopping centers and things like that some students find it's convenient to carpool but in the event that you don't have a car it's definitely possible to take advantage of that so as far as shopping on the weekends those are some different things you can do as I said before we also have concerts and things that they.

Schedule we actually think it was last year or maybe yes it was in 2019 which Josh Gallagher who if you guys don't know he's actually from cresson he was a runner up on The Voice and he did a concert on campus so we have different fun activities like that that go on on the weekends.

Yeah, I know as we get more and more out of state students, which is, you know, been increasing over the years. Yeah, sorry go ahead. I didn't mean to interrupt you, Matt.

Yeah, so I'm not like 100% sure about the different like schedules and things like that, but we do have rent shuttles that go to the surrounding towns at periodically. If you do have a car, you can have it on campus, but causes, I believe $40 and we find that it's kind of a mix between students that have a car, Ann, carpool, or substance that take advantage of that shuttle service.

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So I'll start with the first part of the question how is the cafeteria we've been we just shifted to a different food service and we've gotten a lot of really good feedback related to that I've eaten at that cafeteria several times I don't consider myself a picky eater but I always say I'm a vegetarian except for bacon.

And so I do have kind of like a little bit of pickiness whenever I eat and there's always a lot of different options you know I like vegetarian stuff and then the occasionally I'll try something a little bit different their soup salad lot of different like toppings and stuff for your salad so it's not boring.

And then we also have we have a Starbucks on campus that's fairly new so I've actually checked out a couple times it's really taste like the same as if you go to a normal Starbucks and I actually think it's cheaper we also have a snack bar and I believe it the snack bar that's where they have Matt maybe you can correct me on this if I'm wrong but don't they have something about like is it breakfast sandwiches and things like that and if you go there on the occasional Friday you might.

Catch some of the admissions officers getting there Friday breakfast sandwich fix is that true.

Yeah so I certainly feel comfortable taking that question I've lived in Crescent almost my whole life I left the state left the country I went to a couple different places and lived and I can definitely say that Crescent is one of the safest places that I've ever lived.

It's a it's a fairly small town but it's a very close community there's a lot of support and yeah I can honestly say that as far as as Crescent it's very safe and also Mac as a campus the Mount Ala wishes campus is very safe as well.

Good question Brittany.

That's a really good question.

Uhm yeah Matt why don't why don't you go ahead and take that one I know you've been on the campus in this regard for a little bit longer than I have so I'll let you handle that one.

Yeah absolutely will really try to be flexible and work with you.

So that's actually a really good. I get a lot of questions related to, you know, if I'm struggling with my classes, what can I do? We offer different types of tutoring. We offer peer to peer tutoring and then we also have different opportunities for you to get like sort of like tutoring or help from your teacher. So because of our small class sizes, there tends to be a lot more opportunities to ask your teacher.

For different questions and to get more specialized help. So yes, if you have any issues. I actually had a class whenever I was going to school I think it was, uh, I don't remember what classes I think it was like a history class and it was really difficult but in a good way. I felt like I was learning a lot. It was very sort of refreshing and it was one of my first classes that I was like, Oh This Is This is college for real and I reached out to my professor and I ended up doing really well in that class so we really try to work within that.

And we also have a ski club so if it's something maybe that you haven't done in the past it might be something you know as far as meeting new people and learning something knew you know you're in a different place that might be something to look into.

OK so II do know about spring break I'm not quite sure about other times that they would have to vacate their dorms probably I'm thinking for summer but Matt maybe you can explain that a little bit more.

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Good question.

Sure sure so yeah I have no problem answering that I like I said I grew up here I remember when I was a kid there was I remember not even be able to being able to see over my head you know there's so much snow however I have noticed over the years the snow has kind of tapered of- actually after I left for 4 years came back this year and I was really nervous about seeing my first cresson winter and it was actually really mild.

So it's kind of started to.

Kind of started to get a little bit more mild as the years go on. I do know that we do occasionally get pretty crazy snow storm. This last year we had one that did kind of disrupt some things on a weekend, but you know, like I said, when I was a kid, I remember that happening several times a year. It's really only happened just one time this year, so we do have snow. I have a lot of students that are in the northern part of Maryland and I know for them it's probably you know some snow is not a big deal, I know.

If you're from Louisiana or something like that the snow might be a little bit more of a challenge again though the last couple of years have been pretty mild?

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I will say that if you don't have a winter coat bring a winter coat it is cold.

Yeah yeah yeah uhm wear a hat scarf I'm a big baby when it comes to the cold out so I always have you know if you see me on campus I'm always wearing a like a sweater or actually I don't have my blanket that I usually carry with me but yeah there's sunny sun out today so don't don't need it quite as much.

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I'm really other than just thank you guys for attending. If you have any other questions you have my information as you heard at the beginning my texting is a little bit off right now I'm as you can see I'm not Alley Bennett, I'm Roberta Schettig, so if you have any questions I would just say maybe email me for now, but I'm going to have that back and running and I'll be able to communicate normally from hopefully soon. But again, thank you guys for coming and if you have any questions feel free to reach out to me.

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