Hey everyone! Welcome back to the main mic. My
name's Harper, I'm your host, and today I am
joined with a very special guest, Sammy! Hello!
So it's the first week back from Spring Break.
You'll be seeing it the second week back from
Spring Break, but nonetheless, still exciting.
It's been a rollercoaster of weather these past
couple of weeks. Don't you agree? Yes. Oh my
gosh, it's been really bad. We've had what? Snow,
sleet, rain, 90 degree weather. And more rain
tonight. And more rain tonight? Thunderstorms
tonight. You're lying. I'm not lying. That actually
sounds so relaxing. I know, I'm gonna sleep good
tonight. I'm gonna sleep so, I have a tin roof.
Yeah. Oh my god, my apartment's like a cozy little
cabin. I'm gonna that's so exciting. I didn't
know about the thunderstorms tonight I just it's
been 90 degree weather, but hopefully this is
like the last of our like back -and -forth weather
because genuinely My body's exhausted. I can't
take it It's been annoying, but yeah, no we're
here today to talk about Sammy's upcoming articles
She has three that come out next week whenever
you guys will be seeing this episode so Sammy
Talk to us tell us a little bit about a yourself
and then be what your articles are. Okay, a little
bit about myself. I'm a reporter for The Messenger.
I've been a reporter since October. This is my
second semester here at JUCO. I plan to major
in journalism. The stories I have coming out
this week. I have a feature on the Honor Society
Psi Beta, which is a psychology honor society.
So just an overall feature about what they do
and all the neat things and all the amazing opportunities
that you can get from it like scholarships and
an automatic join to the four -year honor society
that is involved with Psi Beta. And also just
upcoming things that they have coming up like
a movie night and an induction ceremony. Also
information on how you can join. I'm doing a
Meet a Cav Monday story about a student on campus,
Jose Lopez. He is in the EMT program or he was
in the EMT program and his professor nominated
him for this. He's just gone through a lot of
stuff throughout his life and he had a really
inspirational story to share about it. And my
last one is going to be a story about the Active
Minds Club, which I talked a little bit about
earlier this semester when I wrote a story about
the Healthy Minds Discussion Survey that was
given to students here at JUCO. And the Active
Minds Club is a mental health club that helps
provide resources to students on campus and students
can join. and just be a part of the club to help
with tabling events and other things like that.
So let's go into more depth about it. We'll start
with your first article coming out. Do they have
separate days or are they all coming out on the
same day? Honestly, not sure yet that they're
all due tomorrow, but it kind of depends on maybe
Tuesday. Maybe Friday I guess me to have Monday
comes out on Monday. That's my only set one that
I know yeah What are you excited about for students
to hear like whenever you're sharing your stories?
I'm excited for students to kind of hear about
like whether it's a me to have Monday I want
them to get to know the students because clearly
they've been nominated for a reason so it's neat
to kind of I guess get to know your peers and
with features it's kind of cool for students
to get to know about like the options and the
resources are on campus and how they can get
more involved because being at a community college
can sometimes be difficult to get to meet people
and get opportunities like that. Is there anything
that you wish like from your articles that you
could do more of? I want more like Student voice
which I know kind of the messenger as a whole
has been working on getting a lot more student
voice in them But I guess that kind of means
getting students to know more about the messenger.
So We got to get it out there more Who would
you be excited to interview because I know like
if you're up -to -date with our podcast We used
to have a student stories and there we had interviewed
vets dental we did athletes we Pretty much explored
any specific that Johnson County provides so
Would you have any interest of like reaching
out to those people and like talking more about
those like article form like getting a group
of them Oh, yeah, definitely. I think that would
be a really neat experience To talk like more
about them, you know get their stories out there
more Because I know like Marcel Duncan that I
just did a story about I know you guys had him
on the podcast, right? Yeah, so I like kind of
doing that like double thing so people can get
to know them more Yeah, he was a he was on our
sports podcast a couple weeks ago he filled in
because we had Jay was out for the week, but
it worked out great because I really enjoyed
the episode and Having your article come out
afterwards with more specific details like he
didn't mention everything on the podcast that
was mentioned in your article vice versa So it
was a good balance to keep both and to continue
forward because a lot of what you guys talked
about in your interview Was a lot more personal
like they did speak more of like the sports going
on, but you got their real story there Yeah,
he was really neat to talk to you know he was
a fun person He was so fun like we talked for
15 minutes, and it just went by so fast But he
was really open which was really a nice kind
of change compared to some stories. Yeah, and
then Are you, by chance, interested in interviewing
other clubs? Because I know we have a segment
where we're trying to start where we go to those
clubs. Would you want to maybe join us someday
and write short little segments about what happens
at these clubs? Oh, yeah. I'd love that because
there's so many clubs here on campus that I feel
like a lot of people don't know about. I did
a story about the animation club. Really? There's
an animation club? There's an animation club.
The what? The Dungeons and Dragons club. There's
a history club. The history club, too? That sounds
really fun. I know. I haven't done a story about
them yet, but I plan to. Because I wonder how
that works. I did see recently their, or not
recently, but their most recent club from today.
They have a guest speaker coming, so I wonder
if they have people who... study specific areas
of history, and report on that to students. That
makes sense, that sounds kinda cool. I wonder,
cause they do, it's like from, what was it, like
in 1866 to 1897 or something, or 77? Oh, so there's
like, it's history from specific eras, like I've
read small descriptions, like they specifically
talk about different things each week. That's
really cool. I think I may be misinforming you
guys But that's like the last thing I read about
it is that that is what I got from the little
note that I read So that'd be interesting to
go to that'd be really neat. But yeah, we definitely
need a reporter on a team, bro Yes, join us,
please But yeah, so spring break did just wrap
up. So we're on our second part of the semester
and that's kind of scary. We've accomplished
the first eight weeks. Now there's eight more
weeks, eight more weeks. That's kind of scary.
I know, but I feel like my semester's gotten
so much more intense now. And I really, I'm not
vibing and thriving, because I have 16 credit
hours. Oh my gosh. You have like five classes?
Yeah, I have biology, I have comp two, public
speaking. basic video production and Mike's class,
news writing and reporting. Gosh, that sounds
like a mental breakdown waiting to happen, though.
Oh, they happen all the time. That would terrify
me. Me and my color -coded calendar. Oh, yeah.
Who's your Comp2 teacher? Bob Sikora. Oh my god,
I love Bob. Yes. He's the best teacher ever,
though. We just did Faculty Friday about him,
and he's great. I nominated him. You did? I did
too you did high five and and um Other Mike did
really yes, so he was a triple nominee. What
class did you have with them comp one and comp
two? Okay, so I was lucky um I Took a comp two
class in between and I purposely waited and only
picked out I guess it was Tuesdays and Thursday
classes because I really just I was like I can't
do comp two without this bro like he's such He's
a homie. I know his class is hard though, but
like I'm having fun It's so beneficial and I
really enjoyed like him actually wanting us to
use our brain I know I do like that cuz like
my comp one teacher was kind of like has he introduced
you guys to what your finals gonna be yet No,
we're doing the research paper right now. So
Spoiler alert if it's the same as like mine was
last spring last spring semester Um, then...
He'll bring Casey's breakfast pizza. Oh, yum.
Yes. Gosh, even Zach's making a face. Doesn't
that sound so good? My gosh, I love Casey's pizza.
It's so good. It's right down the street from
my house Same there's a Casey's. It's not even
the gas station. It's just like the market that
is weird I just walk literally. It's a five -minute
walk straight to it. There's like 24 7 open it's
amazing. Oh my god I go on walks at like 2 in
the morning with my friends. We walk to Casey's
get snacks walk back home It's amazing. It's
great. I love Casey's so much Casey's please
sponsor Buy so many stuffed animals from Casey's.
I'm not gonna lie. They do have cute stuffed
animals. They also often have Limited it limited
edition snacks in M &Ms and whatnot before so
I got to taste they also give me free candy sometimes
they love you I Frequent they're a bit too much.
So you're a regular. I Hope not. He's a regular.
I wouldn't say No. But, but yeah, no. So with
that, we just like, that's also pretty much how
I spent some of my spring break, just walking
around. I love that. Yeah. It was really nice.
But anyways, classes and whatnot. It is midterm
season. I don't have any. I haven't had any,
but I also only have one class. You only have
Mike's class? Yeah, because I got my associates
over the winter break. Oh. That makes so much
sense, but I didn't want to go back to school
until next fall and so Mike convinced me to take
one class to continue I'm glad you're taking
Mike's class me, too It's actually really fun,
and it is beneficial because I did want to write
an article and it's coming out So take a class
with Michael Humphrey. It'll change your life
Mike Humphrey what? What What do you mean? I
was joking. Okay. What did I miss? He went, mmm.
Cause you said take a class with my company.
Class today felt like group therapy. I felt like,
you know movies where they have like AA and they're
all sitting in a circle. That's what I felt like
I walked in on. Like we all sat, he was like,
we can't like over, he's a listening circle.
A listening circle for our. articles that we
have to write because we have to learn how to
listen to people and then also just Vividly so
I wasn't gonna use my notes. I didn't use my
notepad I think I did pretty well for what I
did I did mix up like timeline in my brain and
I like But how dare you nonetheless like all
the information came out nice and clear So I
was debating on doing something like is Milas
where it's like a short like two sentences, but
I also the three people prior to me were doing
like long messages. So Emma did the interview
for me and I interviewed Emma vice versa. You
were there. I was there. And so what she did,
she cut out a lot of what I said though, because
I gave her so much detail, which is like fine.
She tried to like merge it all into one easy
sentence and then it didn't get a lot of the
points straight across, but I really appreciated
it because I was like, that was so much easier
than what I just blabbed to her. I was like,
oh yeah, I could have literally just said that.
I didn't have to give so many details. I even
mentioned that in class too. So, with his class,
I do actually feel like I'm learning. I know.
That's the best part of his class. I always feel
like I'm really learning something. I never take
notes in his class though, but no, the articles
that he gives us to read, He wrote that book
though, right? The website that we have to take
notes on. Parts of it. He kind of took like other
books and like mashed them all together. That
makes sense. That makes sense. Because I know
he did link his own YouTube to it. Mike has a
YouTube channel, guys. Mike Humphrey has a YouTube
channel. It's really scary. We should subscribe.
Subscribe. Hit that subscribe button. And then
hit Mike's subscribe button, because he's our
boss, kind of. Yeah. Anyway, so. What happened
in class was beneficial for me because I didn't
realize, well, I do realize, but experiencing
it firsthand is a lot different than just like
a constant redo redo. Does that sound coherent
and make sense, what I'm saying? No. Oh. Being
able to hear someone summarize a long statement
that I pretty much tried correcting myself. when
speaking to her, it was beneficial to me to learn
those ways of what can be knocked out of statements,
which I won't be using, because I blab. But it
is good to know for the cases where I do need
to use that, which is pretty frequently, but
still, if it's an informal setting, who cares?
Yeah, I was scared that I was gonna make my partner
feel like I didn't listen to them I was scared
that I was gonna say something offensive Yeah,
like you're not offensive, but like oh like that's
not how that happened I know I was really scared
of that like I was like oh, I don't I forgot
that we were supposed to like Retell this story
to people that happened to me in another one
of my classes where we're supposed to listen
to somebody's story and retell it I don't remember
what class it was this semester But it was like...
Sounds like comp 2 because I feel like I did
that in Bob's class. It was comp 2, yeah. Because
I did that in Bob's class too. So maybe you are
doing the same final that I did. Okay, please,
because that's kind of easy. I can do that. I
can make that happen. Hey Zach, can I show the
fidget toy that you have to the camera? So guys...
Before this episode Zach and I walked to the
school store Which you guys should go visit because
we didn't realize how many cool things I got
two new notebooks and Zach got this wait Wait,
you gotta do it right. Oh Be scared of her And
Zach got this This little toy that he's been
fidgeting with all episode Like I'm speaking
loud just in case my microphone isn't really
picking me up, but he's been he's been fidgeting
with this toy So long. He just got it. He just
got it and it's just back and forth You know
what? I love to that when we met up before to
do this. We all had donuts of some sort Yeah,
that is true. We all had some sort of donut Huh,
okay. Wait this actually It's so fun We're looking
at ourselves in the camera by the way because
we're so beautiful. I Didn't realize I'm slouching.
Oh my god It reminds me like a dagger like a
shank like that Zach said But it's so unsuspecting
like you don't realize that's what it's going
to happen That's what's going to happen like
I know it just looks like a little like oh look
how cute it is Wow It looks like it should be
a coaster A beautiful coaster looks like a dragon
egg No, so go to the bookstore guys. It's super
fun. I didn't realize how many cool things were
there And that's like a really fun way to just
give yourself a sweet treat. And I did get, I
got a matcha mochi donut from the Cav Cafe in
the Student Center. No, no, it's 10 out of 10.
And if you are an employee on campus, you get
a 10 % discount at the bookstore. I just learned
that yesterday. So we could have used it. So.
I asked like a year ago and they said no. They
just told me this yesterday. End the episode.
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