WEBVTT 0:00:05.520 --> 0:00:10.629 What two pieces of advice would you share with someone who is a new student in the HDL 0:00:10.629 --> 0:00:12.090 department? 0:00:12.090 --> 0:00:17.880 Two pieces of advice I would say would be keep an open mind and really pay attention 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.480 to what your advisor says. 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:26.020 Get to know the faculty in your department as well as different peers that you have amongst 0:00:26.020 --> 0:00:29.950 classes that are all within the same focus in the College of Education. 0:00:29.950 --> 0:00:35.360 I'd probably say try to make friends with someone that's older so they can kind of help you out, like with classes 0:00:35.370 --> 0:00:39.540 they've already taken. 0:00:39.550 --> 0:00:46.210 I would also say get to know your professors and advisors because they're like really helpful 0:00:46.210 --> 0:00:47.329 in your process as well. 0:00:47.329 --> 0:00:50.780 Like with questions you don't know, you can go and ask them. 0:00:50.780 --> 0:00:53.900 I would say one of the activities I enjoyed the most would probably be meeting with a 0:00:53.900 --> 0:00:54.900 faculty member. 0:00:54.900 --> 0:00:55.940 I got to meet with Professor 0:00:55.940 --> 0:00:57.160 Humphries, and she was really dope. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.030 She's the associate director for Educational Psychology, so we had lunch at Student Center 0:01:01.030 --> 0:01:06.860 East and had an enjoyable conversation about career paths and what's it like being a person 0:01:06.860 --> 0:01:08.719 of color studying education. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:17.540 Um, yeah I was gonna say the faculty members too because I just liked getting to know more 0:01:17.540 --> 0:01:23.350 about the faculty here because I'd never really talked to any of my professors. 0:01:23.350 --> 0:01:31.329 For me was the time that a lot of the professors came to talk to us in the classroom because 0:01:31.329 --> 0:01:36.289 they told their experiences and they each like teach like a different kind of section 0:01:36.289 --> 0:01:43.240 in HDL, so that made me like to see or know more about what I really want to do. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.530 [Professor Sheridan:] TJ, what advice would you give a new HDL student? 0:01:46.530 --> 0:01:52.229 Um the advice I would give a new HDL student is to have their four year plan going from 0:01:52.229 --> 0:01:57.700 the get-go, so like, before they begin school, have a four-year plan already like mapped out and 0:01:57.700 --> 0:02:00.800 then whatever happens from there, just take it one day at a time. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.380 What's one new thing you learned in this class? 0:02:03.380 --> 0:02:08.380 Um, one new thing I learned in this class is that I can major in many things that I 0:02:08.540 --> 0:02:11.040 want to do with children. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:15.780 I used to be in the Urban Education program and I felt like I was more restricted into 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:21.080 like, just becoming a teacher and being one thing, but with the Human Development & Learning, 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.160 I feel like I could go into more. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.360 What's one thing that impacted you from the class? 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:32.320 I actually really enjoyed the class overall because it wasn't just a regular class where 0:02:32.640 --> 0:02:37.040 you have to attend a class and do tests, exams, and all that stuff. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:43.160 They actually helped you, um, with your first year as a student to go around campus and 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:48.120 all the cultural centers and stuff like that, so it was really helpful. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.560 What is one thing you learned with this class? 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.670 One thing I learned from all of you? 0:02:54.670 --> 0:03:02.010 Well, I don't know if I learned anything totally new, but I was reminded that our students 0:03:02.010 --> 0:03:04.730 are wonderful. 0:03:04.730 --> 0:03:11.940 I enjoy very much teaching them and being with them, and that the things that I take 0:03:11.940 --> 0:03:16.590 for granted, like knowing where things are on campus, students don't necessarily know, 0:03:16.590 --> 0:03:22.250 and so it is really important to remember that not everybody knows where everything 0:03:22.250 --> 0:03:27.240 is, and what the resources are, and so actually this traveling around that we've been doing, 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.060 can be really beneficial for everybody. 0:03:29.060 --> 0:03:32.200 Because sometimes I wonder "Mm, should we be doing something else?" and then it gets 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:37.340 reinforced - No, because people didn't know that that even available to them. 0:03:37.340 --> 0:03:38.700 So, I learned that.