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Hi guys, welcome back to Student Stories. I'm

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Jennifer Smith. We're glad to have you here with

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us today. Today we are joined by an alum of Johnson

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County Community College and a brand new friend.

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Friend, please introduce yourself. Hi everybody,

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I'm Liz. I am a recent graduate from Johnson

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County Community College. I graduated with my

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Associates of Applied Science in Graphic Design

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in May. And yeah, I've just been looking around,

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hanging out. So you and I have something in common.

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When we were offline doing our pre -interview

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and getting to know each other, you mentioned

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graduating from Gardner -Edgerton High School.

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Sure did. We live in Gardner and my daughter

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also graduated from Gardner -Edgerton High School.

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How cool is that? How small is the room? I know.

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It's crazy when you said that because usually

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when I say I live in Gardner, people are like,

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okay, where is that? And I'd be like, um, Aletha,

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basically. So when you were like, oh, I know

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Gardner. I live in Gardner. I was like... Okay,

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that's crazy. So yeah, that was weird. It's weird

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for weird for me Do you want to share with our

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listeners the story of the pictures that I sent?

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Oh my gosh. Yeah So when we were talking you

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mentioned your daughter Erin and so I like vaguely

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remembered the name but I think she was a few

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years older than me so I asked my boyfriend who

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also went to Garner Edgerton and Apparently they

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were in theater together for like a while So

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that was crazy. And then you sent me all these

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old pictures of him and I was like, oh my gosh,

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that's crazy. When I told Erin, I'm like, I think

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I know someone that you know. She's like, mom,

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I'm going to send you the pictures. I'm like,

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OK. I showed them to him and he was so embarrassed.

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He was like, oh, I hate it. Was he like, oh my

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god, that's crazy because I'm younger than? Yeah,

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he just he doesn't look like that at all anymore.

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He has like a beard now. Oh, well, like longer

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hair. Yeah, well, longer hair, but longer than

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in those pictures. He's like a crew cut in those

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pictures. It's nothing like that. So you shared

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with me your journey to coming to Johnson County

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Community College and how kind of a detour on

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your academic path and kind of brought you into

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some place you never thought you would be. So

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can you share that story with our listeners and

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our viewers on YouTube? For sure. So originally

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when I graduated high school, I had taken some

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like quick step classes through my high school

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to get. college credit but I didn't like really

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think about going to community college. Initially

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I actually wanted to go to KU for their visual

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communications program and I applied and I was

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accepted in everything but it was like way more

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money than I could afford and they had recently

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gotten rid of their like big Pell Grant scholarship

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so they wouldn't pay for my tuition anymore so

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I was like well I can't go there so let me go

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to Johnson County for a few years to like get

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my gen ed and everything out of the way and then

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I'll go back to KU and then I never went back

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to KU and I just got my degree from Johnson County

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because the program is so great and yeah I think

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it was a good choice like I ended up getting

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enough financial aid to like really support me

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through school so I wasn't worried about any

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finances or anything that's amazing and so I

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really focused a lot on my work and everything

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so So tell us about the visual arts program here

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at Johnson County Community College. How long

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does it take? If you had a favorite class or

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professor? Yeah, so I was actually a dual major

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in the fine arts and the graphic design program,

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but I only ended up getting my degree in the

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graphic design program. But so that program,

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it takes around three years. It can be done in

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two or three, depending on how big you want your

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course load to be. So for me, I did it full time,

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but I only took four classes, so it took me three

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years. But it was a really pretty comprehensive

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program. All the professors are super nice. They

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really support you and like work with you if

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you have any issues. Shout out to Mr. Kidwell.

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These awesome. But yeah, it was just all my professors.

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I just like was really close with them. So it's

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a great program. That's wonderful. And I'm seeing

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that happen with more people we interview. Everybody

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says kind of the same thing, you know, that the

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faculty is really supportive here. Yes. They

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count their success when you succeed. Yeah. You

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know, and they're genuinely invested in you.

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And so that's wonderful that you had that, you

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know, very similar experience as well. What sparked

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your love, would you say, for design and the

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visual arts? and how those fields always been

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of interest to you or did like, did you have

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a moment where you're like, wow, I'm really interested

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in this? Yeah, actually it kind of came as a

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shock because for a while in high school, I thought

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I wanted to be a veterinarian for like three

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years. Obviously that didn't happen. I think

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I tore in one school and I was like, you know

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what? Eight years, eight years of school is not

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for me. So then I really got into ceramics at

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my high school and I was like, oh, I'm going

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to do art. And then COVID happened and I was

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like, well, I need something like Not that art

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can't support you, but I was like, I need something

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maybe a little bit more stable, which design

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is not stable if you didn't know, but I didn't

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know that. So I ended up going into design from

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there and I actually like it a lot just because

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I'm kind of a type A person. So I like when there's

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like rules, I guess. I'm very much like that

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too. I like structure a lot, which they're it's

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good and bad that there isn't a lot in art, but

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in design, I feel like there's a little bit more

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structure and then I can learn more. And just,

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yeah. And you said you graduated in May. In May,

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yeah. What have you been doing since you graduated?

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Yeah, so I took an internship right after I graduated

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at MMGY Global. So they're an advertising agency

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based in Overland Park, but they have offices

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like all over the world. And so there I was an

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art director for the summer and I got to work

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with a great team of other interns and I met

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so many people and it was awesome. But then after

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that ended, I've been doing just like some freelance

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side work. whenever I can get my hands on and

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that I've been doing some art, painting, sculpture

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stuff. So that was actually my next question

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was about your freelance work. Can you share

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with our listeners and our viewers on YouTube

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what kinds of freelance work you've been doing?

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Yeah, so I've done like not much freelance work.

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I've done maybe a few posters, but it's been

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mostly my art stuff. So like I'm working on this

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painting right now. That's super cool. But it's

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not done yet. So I don't have anywhere. Can you,

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do you want to share a little bit about that

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painting or not yet? You kind of want to let

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it take shape? Not yet, yeah. I'm like, I kind

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of am secretive about my work a little bit. I

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don't believe you at all. I don't believe you

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at all. Not at all. And then what it does is

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it builds suspense and so we're excited to see

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it, you know, it finally happens. Sure, sure.

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If a listener to our program or a viewer on YouTube

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would be interested in seeing any of the work

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that you have done, do you have a website or?

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I do have a website. I have a website, it's kind

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of janky. It's N -I -I -X -O -N -E -A dot com,

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which is my last name with two I's. Okay. My

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initials. But all my graphic design work is on

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there. So if you want to look more at my design

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stuff, it's on there. Perfect. I don't really

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have my finer stuff posted. Like I said, I'm

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secretive about it. That's okay. That's okay.

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Now, if somebody would, if a listener or a viewer

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would want to hire you for freelance work, could

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they contact you through your website? Yes. Okay.

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Perfect. Perfect. My email and everything is

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listed on there. So just go to the website. It's

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all. It's all on there. Perfect. Perfect. So

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let's shake things up And talk about some fun

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questions sure last movie you saw go. Um, it

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was scream because it was just Halloween. Oh,

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yeah And it was the one with Matthew Lillard

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in it like first one. I love him Cuz I'd never

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seen it before and I'm like, no I watched it

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in my room with I watched it in my room, a little

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bit tipsy with some of my friends. It was a great

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experience. I love that movie. It's awesome.

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Yeah. I don't know. There's something fun about

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doing it in the theater. And then there's also

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something fun about being home with your own

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bathroom and your own thing. You know what I

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mean? Real. Nobody bumping into you. None of

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that crazy stuff. Real, real, real, real. Absolutely.

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Are you bingeing anything right now on the streaming?

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Yes. Oh, tell us. Supernatural. Supernatural.

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It's my first time watching it all the way through.

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So when I was younger, I watched like the first

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five seasons of it when it was only like six

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seasons. And now it's like 15 seasons. So I have

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a lot to get through. That is a lot to get through.

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But I've been watching a lot of Supernatural

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and I started Grey's Anatomy. Yeah. Never watched

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it before. I'm not sure how I'm liking it, but

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it's... It's crazy I'm like do I keep going I

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was a big ER person. Yes. Okay. Yeah, and so

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my husband was like I don't get you. Why is it

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that you call it entertainment when you see something

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that breaks your heart and you ball for three

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weeks? I would. I would be like, oh, that person

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died. And my husband's like, babe, that person's

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at Starbucks with their spouse. It's all good,

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babe. It's all good. No real. I'm like watching

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it. I'm like, it's like the second episode and

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we're already like, what are we doing? Yeah.

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I, there's like no hospital here. Yeah. I'm trying

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to feel it. I'm trying to feel Grey's Anatomy

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and it's just not. but I don't know about you,

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but it is all over my social media. Like every

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time I open TikTok, it's like cute little puppies,

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cute little kids dancing, angry and all that.

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Really? And knitting patterns. Knitting patterns,

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period. I'm like, why? I'm not a nurse. I don't

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watch the show. Honestly, I try to stay off of

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social media, because I think it's bad for my

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mental health a little bit. It's very bad for

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you. It's very bad. But when I am on... on there

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I do see it like sometimes like I'm like what

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is even crazy but no I get you I get you yeah

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um so what about books are you reading anything

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or do you have a favorite book that you've read

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um currently I am I just reread through all the

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Hunger Games books and I'm just about to start

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Sunrise on the Reaping which is like the new

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one so hoping it's good um I'm reading that I'm

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reading through um what's it called it's Akatar

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a court of roses and thorns and roses yeah I

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forgot what... It's cold, but I'm reading through

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that for the first time I'm like the third book

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and I get it. I get why book talk is obsessed

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I understand It's funny about books. I was you

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know, I'm older. I'm 53. So yeah, I did the book

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thing growing up and you know the Scholastic

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book club if you know, you know I just kind of

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got out of reading for the love of ya lately.

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I've come back to it Yeah, and something that

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I've discovered that I really love these books

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on tape like audio. Okay. Yes my My mom is such

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a books on tape person. She loves audiobooks.

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And I'm like, I can't do it. I can't focus. Really?

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Oh my gosh, because I can like knit and listen?

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Nope. She does it with crochet. She does the

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exact same thing. And I'm like, I tried listening

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to an audiobook and then I'm like an hour in

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and I'm like, I don't remember what happened

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the last hour. And it's interesting when they

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have like different voice actors on there because

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you're like, okay, which one are you again? I

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like when they have that. I don't like when it's

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the same person trying to do a voice, especially

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when it's a woman trying to do a man's voice,

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like all sexy. And I'm like... Oh, I'm like,

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what are we doing? Yeah. Yeah. Do you have Libby

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on your phone? Are you familiar? I do. I have

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Libby on my phone and I have it transfer the

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books onto my Kindle. I have it in my bag right

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now. But I have it transferred to my my old Kindle

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Touch from like 2011. Love that. Love that thing.

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Love that. So if you're not familiar with Libby,

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if you love books at all, you've got to get it.

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It's a free app you can download on your phone.

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And then if you have a library card like it,

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Aletha or Johnson. or North Kansas City, you

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can link your library card to your Libby and

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then get books, magazines, anything sent straight

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to you. So for free. Yeah, for free. And it's

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really cool because if there's a magazine that

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you like, like me, I'm a knitter. So I love all

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the knit magazines. I don't want to pay for them.

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So that's really, really cool. So you can get

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audio books as well as book books. And as Liz

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said, you can download this into your e -reader

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device, which is super awesome. You can't find

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people on the, you can find people on Goodreads

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though. Yes, you can. So like, like if we were

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friends on Goodreads, I could be like, Oh, Liz

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is reading that guitar right now. That's so cool.

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Liz said, don't read this book. Do you have a

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favorite song or musician or like if I stole

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your phone, what would your Spotify? Oh boy.

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Um, my Spotify right now. So I'm one of those

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people that I listen to everything. And when

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I say that, I actually listen to everything.

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Like, I know sometimes people are like, I listen

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to everything, but I don't listen to country.

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I don't listen to anyone. No, I actually listen

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to everything. So right now, the most recent

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artists on my phone are like, I have Pierce the

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Veil on there, and Zara Larsen on there. Zara

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Larsen. I'm drawing a blank. I have like cursive

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on there. I think I have Lip Biscuit on there

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right now. Lip Biscuit. I love Lip Biscuit. My

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bad. I just, I have a lot and it changes with

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the seasons. Sure. Oh yeah. And then the thing

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about, one of the really good things about social

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media, at least for me with TikTok is I hear

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songs and I'm like, what is that? You know, and

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then like I've been turned on to a lot of new

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artists that way. So that's really, really cool.

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I'm like you, I love, I'm like you, I love every

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kind of music. Yeah. And so what a great, you

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know, how lucky are we to be alive today with

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access to - Like, you know, there's instant music

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right away and the ability to share music with

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other people and say, hey, Liz, you know, I'm

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going to send you a link of this great song.

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You better check it out. So we're really, really

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fortunate to live today when we do. I always

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love to ask our guests this question, so I'm

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going to ask you as well. Assuming that money

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and time were no object, you had a gajillion,

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bajillion dollars, you had a million hours, no

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commitments, no work, no nothing, how would you

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spend your time and how would you spend that

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money? Oh boy. I wish that was real. I know,

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right? First of all. So what happens is Jen and

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Liz and Zach are leaving because we just got

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a lot of money. Totally. Just kidding. Honestly,

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I would travel. I want to travel so bad. I never

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have really had the opportunity to travel. I've

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never been outside the country, which is upsetting,

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but I would travel. I would go everywhere. Where

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would you start? Oh boy. I know that's a hard

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one, isn't it? Yeah. I would probably go... This

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answer is so nerdy. I would go to Japan Just

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cuz it's so different. It's beautiful. I Whenever

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I say that they're like, oh you want to go cuz

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like anime and I'm like, no, it's because it's

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pretty there No, there's not but I just yeah,

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I'll go there I would go to Europe All through

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Europe, everywhere. I lived in Europe for three

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years. Really? So yeah, I lived in Germany for

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three years. But my dad was in the army. Oh,

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OK. And so we were stationed there. That makes

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sense. But I was really, really young. And I

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wish I'd been older, to have the adult capacity

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to appreciate the culture and the food and whatnot.

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So yeah, if you need somebody to go with you

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as a travel buddy, have your people call my people.

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I will go with you in a New York minute. Yeah,

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I have a friend that she just travels everywhere.

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And I'm so jealous that she gets the opportunity.

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I'm like, that should be me. That should be me.

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And again, the good thing about the internet

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is like, you can kind of go there, you know,

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like, I remember in COVID at the very beginning

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of COVID, there were sites like that where there

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were like cameras put up at parks and you could

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see what it actually looked like on the outside,

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which was really nice because back then we were

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sheltered in place and you can't really go anywhere,

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you know, and I used to go for drives in COVID,

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like after work, I would just get in a car and

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drive and there was nobody out there. And it

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was like, it's because gas was so expensive.

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So while you were a student here at JCCC, was

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there a place that you liked to go to study on

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campus or did you study more at home or like

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at Starbucks? Honestly, I really liked the Think

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I have a few places. Okay, I'm trying not to

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gatekeep them But I'm not here anymore, so it's

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fine Honestly, I really liked in the library.

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There's like that little coffee shop there Yeah,

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if you go a little bit further in and there's

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like those boots and if you can get one of those

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boots Yeah, it's fantastic. But usually they're

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all taken unless you go really early in the morning

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Yes, that's the only time or Honestly, in the

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fine arts building, just because I was like in

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the fine arts major and everything, I was in

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there a lot. And there's like this studio kind

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of upstairs. And so I would go sit up there or

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I would sit outside when it was nice out. Like

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right now in the grass, beautiful anywhere. Yeah.

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Won't be so long. That's going to get cold. I

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know. We're going to edit this part out while

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I figure out what it was. I'm going to drink

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some water while you wait on it. Hold on. So

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on the topic of studying, we're coming into final

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season as you know. Oh boy. From your times here

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at JCCC, did you have any like study skills or

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any things that you used, any techniques that

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you used to stay organized or stay on top of

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things that maybe our listeners might benefit

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from? Yeah, so to be completely honest, Not really

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So in the graphic design program there's like

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not a lot of traditional finals like tests you

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have to take it's more so like You have a big

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project due at the end. So it's kind of just

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work on your big project Yeah, but when I had

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finals for like my gen eds and stuff I I Wasn't

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very good at them. So I would study I was definitely

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big into like writing things down and like muscle

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memory So I think that but I don't know I just

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kind of figured it out. Yeah, you just kind of

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figured it out. Yeah. I hate to admit it, but

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yeah. Yeah. I mean, being in like, like I'm in

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music and you're, you were in visual arts, that

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kind of design, you know, that kind of thing

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is very specialized. It would be different if

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your degree was like no shade, but like history

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or architecture. Yeah. So there's more like written

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tests and stuff. Like bookwork. For my major,

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I was like, Oh, I have like a cereal box too.

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Yeah. For me, I have like 25 bars. Yeah. Yeah.

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Absolutely. So it's a little bit different, but

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um. Like for me personally, it was like setting

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aside blocks of time to work on my project and

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I'll be like, I'm going to do it tomorrow. And

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then I wouldn't get to it. That like procrastination

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is terrible. Like tomorrow never comes. You know

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what I mean? And now it's tomorrow and it's due

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tomorrow. Tomorrow is due tomorrow and I have

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25 hours of work. Holy crap. Like how did this

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happen? I think it could translate is just really

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like schedule out your time and set like two

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hours to just study or work on your project or

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whatever. And make sure you hold yourself to

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that because I'm definitely. Like, I would do

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that and then not do it. And then I would be

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SOL. And I'm like, wait, I needed to actually

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do that, so. And then you're rushed and then

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you don't put your best foot forward. Exactly.

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You know what I mean? Exactly. So yeah. So as

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I mentioned, of course, we're coming into finals.

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But as we come into finals, we're also coming

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into the holiday season. Yes. Do you have any

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fun plans for the holidays or any traditions

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or anything you're looking forward to? I mean,

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the holidays, I'm looking forward to them. I'm

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looking forward to seeing family. I'm a big family

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person. I have a very large family. Very large.

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Do you still have family in Gardner? Yes. Nice.

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Yes. Most of my immediate family is in Gardner,

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which is nice. But we usually go out of town

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and visit with some family members that live

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out of town. I guess I don't know how to say

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it. Yeah. Then aren't located. Do you drive or

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do you fly? We drive. Luckily, most of them are

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in Kansas. I think all of them are in Kansas

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now. Okay. Awesome. Awesome. Well, as we come

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to the end of our time together, is there anything

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else that you'd like to share with our listeners,

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maybe about graduating, maybe about post college

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life, anything in general? Yeah, after graduating,

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don't be too hard on yourself. The job market

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is kind of crazy right now and you are not your

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job. Show yourself grace and patience. Absolutely.

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It's been a little crazy trying to find full

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time work right now. I'm not going to lie. But

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you can also flip that and you have all this

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free time. So now do the things that you wanted

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to do while you were busy in school that you

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won't have time to do when you're working full

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time. So I've been doing a lot more. Fine arts

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and painting and stuff that like I didn't have

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time to do when I was in school So right so find

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what you're passionate about and engage in it,

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you know To the to the greatest extent that you

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can with your energy and your time. That's a

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much more eloquent way to put it. Yeah One more

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time for our viewers on YouTube and our listeners

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on the streaming platforms Where can we find

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your freelance work and how can we sign up to

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potentially hire you? Yeah, so if you want to

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hire me and if you would be so kind um my website

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is nixonea .com so it's n -i -i -x -o -n -e -a

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.com um and that has all my work in my portfolio

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and all the good stuff about me on there so all

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right n -i -x -o -n -e -a .com Liz Nixon, thank

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you so much for joining us today on our Student

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Stories segment. Student Stories segment. That's

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hard to say. Student Stories segment. We're on

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every Wednesday, guys, with a brand new Student

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Stories segment. We're thrilled that you were

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with us here today, and we hope to see you next

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Wednesday. Thank you so much. Bye.