Jericha HOPSON: So just so I just wanted to start it off by letting you all know what this is. This is going to be the the college collaborations with the Honors college. So one thing we wanted to do is make sure that the other colleges know that we share you. You're not an honors student or a college of education, student students or college of science and math student here, both. So we share y'all. And so we thought it would be important to try and highlight that so we have some fantastic alum
s who volunteered to come back and talk with y'all I wanted to thank Dean for being here, of course, and Ally. You'll know her as your honest college advisor. But in this role she is Jericha HOPSON: working on our master's program, and I believe they called her an intern. She's my intern, and I'm in charge of her. She has taken on a bulk of the work to host these events, and. Jericha HOPSON: you know, send all the reminders and the advertisements out to you all so clearly. You know it's working
great. So so what will happen is I will present and I gave them no structure whatsoever. So if you can imagine being given assignment with no directions, rubric, or anything, that's what I have done to them. But I think that's what's most valuable as I didn't tell them. Come in and talk to my students about this. They're coming in January. Dr. Hopson: talking about what they think is important that you should know and then afterwards we'll have punch, water, and cookies in the lobby. We have 3 o
ther colleges left to do. They are well advertised, and they will be well advertised. Structure will be similar. So just make sure you keep your eye out for that college agriculture and college education are the 2 next ones that we call vegetation. Go ahead and turn it over already. Just introduce yourselves, and then we'll do questions at the end. Jericha HOPSON: Hi, everyone. My name is Grant Nickles. I'm currently an academic director at UTD, I work with the college of Engineering and compute
r science. Jericha HOPSON: something I have found I call it the one thing Jericha HOPSON: so here's my first slide the first year in college I came from a private school from middle of high school experience. Kind of new everyone from like grade 3 and a grade. 12 so I only came in with 2 friends from my high school. I had trouble finding I didn't really know what I wanted out of college. It didn't know how to get it. Jericha HOPSON: And then there's actually a funny story. My one thing was actua
lly offered. I'll let her be now. But my parents are visiting one weekend, and we walked by the office college office, and there was a flyer that says that the price had just been reduced, and my parents, without me knowing, turned around and walked into Dr. Clifford's office to ask him about how to apply for it, and like information. Jericha HOPSON: kind of didn't force me to 5, but like happily encouraged me. I didn't really want to but I'm really glad I did, because Jericha HOPSON: I ended up
going. And I like to say I became that steady brought into my life person. That's all. How we know. Jericha HOPSON: It really did, though it's a super great opportunity. I met lifelong friends there. I came lots of confidence. I actually that was my one thing. I met super people who Jericha HOPSON: we're in my medical sciences. When I got back I said, I wanna change my major top. Medical science is pre-med. I met people who worked in residence life which, inspired me to go apply as an office sy
stem in honor. So kind of got my certain res life stuff. Jericha HOPSON: Yeah, it's just a super operation to do so if you haven't applied yet. If you're thinking about it, I definitely recommend. Jericha HOPSON: and then kind of like a hit the point when I go back like I said, I had those that knew self-confidence. I knew about more things on campus definitely had that sense of belonging Jericha HOPSON: that I was looking for, so that it changed my major. I got involved with working in honors,
volunteering with an ambassador in the mentor program just really had a great time. It was Jericha HOPSON: super light, changing. It was really, really awesome. Jericha HOPSON: I'm got involved in a bunch of Jericha HOPSON: I've been trying to master stuff like that. Jericha HOPSON: Then, discovering passion. Jericha HOPSON: as I was working as office assistant, I work with a great stop of the Rl. And the resonance hall director, which inspired me the next year to pipe Vnrl. Unfortunately, that
was the in between the pandemic started so it was kind of difficult time. Things look really different. Jericha HOPSON: Oh, my gosh, sorry they were telling me the audio wasn't. Oh, you're fine! Jericha HOPSON: And this is kind of like my first big step into higher education. Jericha HOPSON: kind of as like a future for me. I really discovered a passion for student success and student development. And is the first time I call director. Someone really saw something company and share that with me,
that I have like that in a talent. And there's any passions that I can see myself. Jericha HOPSON: and that also went from me doing that one thing. Jericha HOPSON: Director here. Jericha HOPSON: And I was like, Oh, well, I can use my degree. I can be like a lava system like do biological research. Because I was fun undergrad. Jericha HOPSON: I really missed out extreme success and working with students on the higher education aspect. Jericha HOPSON: And I was eating that Western for about a yea
r. 10 of those 12 months I was looking for other jobs. So it's definitely a slow process. So if you're applying for like interchips jobs, I definitely understand it's a struggle. Jericha HOPSON: But then, my Renaissance era, I like to call it. Jericha HOPSON: Oh, I got an offer for you to be May of 2023. I don't recommend this, but I did put my job before I got the offer, so pretty sure again. Don't recommend months I've loved every single day. I really dress on that point that I'm sure you all
heard that if you love what you do. You never work it in your life. Jericha HOPSON: It's really relevant to be. I get to professional development. I want to get to work with students kind of foster that development and give people my story to kind of help them find that and kind of help them find their their why and their questions. Jericha HOPSON: That's it. Jericha HOPSON: Did you say your major at the beginning? So it was biomedical science. Well, I was animal science pre-paid, then biomedica
l science, supreme Jericha HOPSON: biology. Jericha HOPSON: Alright. Well, do you wanna check the audio before we switch? It's it's working out. Jericha HOPSON: It was working the whole time. I panicked Jericha HOPSON: alright. Jericha HOPSON: at least audiences. Yes. hope. Jericha HOPSON: and my name's Ailia Oliver. I graduated in 2,012 little little older but as originally molecular biology, and then switch to biology. Jericha HOPSON: There were a lot of changes that had happened during that t
ime. I actually graduated with an 18 month old daughter. So life kind of changed in there. So I switched degrees Jericha HOPSON: ended up, you know, thought it was gonna go to research. But I was, gonna you know. Move on and get my masters and get my doctor right as I was leaving school, and I said obviously things kind of change. But to change for the better, I was able to find the things that I enjoyed, you know, like my one thing like I was able to Jericha HOPSON: latch onto that. But one thi
ng that Jericha HOPSON: you know, you brought up like. What did I wish I had heard? Jericha HOPSON: My one thing is burnout. Jericha HOPSON: and I know y'all feel that because I was there too. Now I was taking 1819 h with the labs, with everything going on. Jericha HOPSON: It is hard. Jericha HOPSON: And you know, when you graduate things change and you're like, I'm good. I got this. I'm gonna get a job. I'm gonna do all the things I'm gonna you know. Take on all the projects and learn all the t
hings. Jericha HOPSON: It is okay to say no. Jericha HOPSON: to stop yourself from the burnout, and that is my thing is the power of saying, though no's are always given that Jericha HOPSON: context of such bad thing, such negative thing like, why would you say? No? Jericha HOPSON: The nose actually good. Jericha HOPSON: You are actually able to grow and do more and be more by steering yourself where you need to go instead of okay, I'm just gonna say yes to every opportunity that comes along. Yo
u don't have to say yes to every job. You don't have to Jericha HOPSON: say yes to every opportunity, just because somebody says, Oh, I think this would be great for you build yourself. It is okay to say no. You can develop and be more Jericha HOPSON: even just when you know when I first got out of school. I started working at a hospital, and at 9 months in I got laid off. Jericha HOPSON: And it's hard, especially when you are a single mom. Jericha HOPSON: and you have a kid, and you don't know
what to do, and Jericha HOPSON: I have to change. And but I was actually able to find an opportunity. Jericha HOPSON: I was hired within a month of that. because in that case I didn't say I said know to Jericha HOPSON: be depressed, and, you know, beat myself up and like, what could I have done? Jericha HOPSON: I said no to sitting there and wallowing in it. and so like, within a week I couldn't. 17 applications. Jericha HOPSON: and already had a had an interview. Got the job offer started withi
n a month and start working in a molecular sorry microbiology app Jericha HOPSON: doing the pharmaceutical lab. So it's not the R&D side, it's Jericha HOPSON: making sure the products we make are good before they go off the door, making sure the environments that we make. Those products are good before they go off the door. Jericha HOPSON: and took on as much as I could, because I was always told you must be more, you must be more doo doo do do, do, do, do, do say yes, have to do everything. Jer
icha HOPSON: And I broke my cell phone Jericha HOPSON: and I hit rock bottom. And I was like, I can't do science anymore. I can't have to waste. Jericha HOPSON: So started applying both outside because I was like, I don't even want to work here. That's how burnout I was. Jericha HOPSON: And thankfully I was able to. Jericha HOPSON: Yes. Jericha HOPSON: make some connections within some senior leadership within our plant, and they pointed me in the direction of investigations Jericha HOPSON: whic
h, being science being analytical, works really good when you're trying to figure out why something went wrong. And it's anything from people Jericha HOPSON: not documenting something to and like equipment breaking like. I was actually dealing with situation last night where we have the a leak on equipment. Jericha HOPSON: I have to make sure that everything's good before you know, is the product still, okay, can we send it off the door? And so Jericha HOPSON: you know, big decisions there. And
but again, it was. Jericha HOPSON: you gotta take on more. Gotta do more. Anybody that because our team for investigations was built to take investigations from the supervisors. So the supervisors came down the floor. They can be doing things to prevent the stuff that's happening. Jericha HOPSON: And the hard part was those. Jericha HOPSON: hey? I need to do this. Jericha HOPSON: Hey? Need you do this? Oh, you'd be great, you know what to do. Can't you just take this Jericha HOPSON: and like Jer
icha HOPSON: sure. oh, don't mind that. I at that point. And now married 2 kids, 2 small children Jericha HOPSON: and keep telling like. sure, that's fine. Jericha HOPSON: I'll take him whatever you need me to do Jericha HOPSON: burnout even worse than I ever had this before. Jericha HOPSON: Again. I'm gonna leave the company. I can't handle this. I'm done, you know. Jericha HOPSON: but I had to learn like I could say. Jericha HOPSON: and then kind of bit some feelings. And that was a whole adju
stment, you know, when I started telling people no. So you always use required student. yeah. But I need to do this for myself. Jericha HOPSON: You know, I had to take the time, and actually, when I was leaving investigations has been the starting flight school. Jericha HOPSON: And so he moved to Alabama. Jericha HOPSON: And I now have 2 kids at home that are in activities doing things all kinds of like school and sports and everything going on. Jericha HOPSON: And it really made me refocus and
say, No, I'm gonna have to say no. I can't be at every school event. I can't be, you know. We can't do all of the sports. We can't do all these things. I have to refocus so that I could be Jericha HOPSON: who I needed to be in the moment. And and I've actually just recently switched roles again. And it's I was telling everybody like I preaching to the chior cause I'm having to re-learn what saying no looks like. Jericha HOPSON: is that? Yeah? Again it said, Well, you're just so good. Let's teach
you, Chips, you know. Why. Why won't you do this? Jericha HOPSON: Bye? That's not my job anymore. That's Jericha HOPSON: I'm like I. But I've learned ways in which I can say no. Jericha HOPSON: that big people please your chart. so I have to find ways, and I can say no without feeling like him letting somebody down. Jericha HOPSON: You know your grandad's. It's like, Oh, that's too, you know. Jericha HOPSON: but it's you know. Instead of saying no like, how about I send you an example? How abou
t a walking? I can walk you through that example, but I can't do it for you. How about we give somebody else, you know, like this person. Jericha HOPSON: They're really looking for new opportunities. I think they would be great, and this would be a great learning opportunity for them like Restary. But still say no Jericha HOPSON: like I'm able to take on board. I actually just started grad school may of last year. So Jericha HOPSON: you know, I'm having to say more or say no more, because I need
that time to do my own school work. I need that time to be home with my kids, be home as my husband do the things that we invite to do. So I'm happy to say Jericha HOPSON: no, but let's do it this way. So, still helping the company and still helping everybody but Jericha HOPSON: a new way of saying No, without saying Jericha HOPSON: 1 s. Jericha HOPSON: Hello! I am Shayla Hoffman. I am graduated with my bachelors in math, and 2012 turned around. Did my masters in a year, because I had grant fun
ding, don't recommend doing a masters in a year, not for the pain of part. Jericha HOPSON: Then I taught public school for 5 years I taught algebra true when up at high school, and I thought that was my love, and that was my happy place, and that's where I would be. Jericha HOPSON: then my, my thing is to find your people that help you see opportunities. Jericha HOPSON: So we. So I have a similar experience. This Grant went on a study abroad trip that like solidified that person for me. And so I
did. A history of math class in Greece Jericha HOPSON: for 3 weeks, and absolutely fell in love, cried when I had to come home because it was that wonderful a trip. So again, if you have the study abroad. Capability Jericha HOPSON: go forth and do, because Jericha HOPSON: 2 out of the 3 have said like that is a thing that can be life changing in your college experience. So the faculty member that was on that trip became like one of my Jericha HOPSON: biggest mentors as we went through. Jericha
HOPSON: so Dr. Pane Littleton she was just one of my people and Jericha HOPSON: So I was teaching math in high school. There was a teacher Quality grant that Dr. Faulkenberry was running in the math department, and Dr. Littleton said, Hey, will you come? Jericha HOPSON: But sure, yeah, that's fine. Well, then. keep puzzling along, plugging along Jericha HOPSON: a new program came available, and an opportunity was able to step out of the K. 12 life and into higher. Ed didn't see myself like going
that path. Jericha HOPSON: Talk to Dr. Littleton about it, and she's like you might wanna look into it a little bit more. And so you need to find the person that helps push you out of your safety zone, because Jericha HOPSON: once you get out into the world you will find a niche, and you're like, I'm good here. This is going great. You need a Jericha HOPSON: it's like a safety net of a person that sees the good in you and helps push you like family is always the most the time that person you ne
ed someone outside the family net. That is also a life. Jericha HOPSON: Let's go down this path. Jericha HOPSON: so I am now the program coordinator for Charlton today. So it is a Jericha HOPSON: one year old program. Now watch out. And so Charlton, today is a dual enrollment program for high school and college students. It's like dual, creditish Jericha HOPSON: but high school students get the opportunity to accept or decline their credit. At the end of this whole year, so they can go through.
So right now we have 4 course offerings. We're about to be up to 14 this next school year and Jericha HOPSON: So instead of college algebra being a one semester class that you go through, it's lines up with algebra to you. Get to take it as a whole year class. Well, say you end up with a be on the college side, and if you're in this room you are probably the type of person I am that A. B would not have been okay as a high school student, and you can say No, thank you to that grade and keep movin
g, and you have no transcript to follow you at all. And so it's a great. I found a place that was a great opportunity Jericha HOPSON: to help students learn how to be college students while still having the training wheels of high school. And I feel like I'm in a place right now that I have like a foot in both sides of the pond, and still getting to work with the high school teachers getting to Jericha HOPSON: work in higher Ed, too, because I think it's powerful for people to be able to have th
at program to keep chasing your dreams so Jericha HOPSON: And don't feel bad about changing your ranger. That'll happen. Jericha HOPSON: I did 6 times. So we're fine still, graduated in 4 years. We're good. Jericha HOPSON: So find your person. That is. that you can be, and it's not a person you talk to all the time. I think I would talk to Dr. Littleton white Jericha HOPSON: like once every 4 to 6 months. It would just be a like, Hey, let's have a 2 h phone call, because we catch up and then go
our separate ways and come back together. And she passed away a couple of years ago, and it's it is a whole that is left with you when you have that person. Jericha HOPSON: So that's as you move through your college experience. If there is a faculty member that you're like, man, II feel a connection with you. Jericha HOPSON: Go to office hours. I get to know that person because they can be a person that hey? You can use as a reference as a drop of a hat that like, hey? I found this job opportuni
ty. Would you be a reference? And they can turn around and have something for you, instead of having to wait for like 5 to 10 business weeks, it seems. Jericha HOPSON: so be looking for your person as you go through college. Don't be afraid to stay in contact with that person and have a extra sounding board Jericha HOPSON: to help you find the opportunities Jericha HOPSON: to take, because, yeah, definitely would not be here without that. Jericha HOPSON: So because I think she even she encourage
d Jericha HOPSON: my dad to make me apply for the honors college cause I wasn't gonna do that either. So alright. Jericha HOPSON: there's always a person working in the background. So find your person and become close. Jericha HOPSON: Does anyone have any questions for an individual alumni, or just as a group? Jericha HOPSON: Still, one of the questions we ask at the last minute. I want each of you to answer it. What was your favorite class? You took pearls, and it was outside of your major. Jer
icha HOPSON: I think my favorite class I took was my juniors on our seminar cause. We did a like history of the American West course was that Junior Year course. Jericha HOPSON: and like I loved it. It was a look through like literature, art. It was like this woven course about humanities that was really really cool and like Jericha HOPSON: I loved learning all the stories of the history of the West. Jericha HOPSON: I have 2 good answers by Jericha HOPSON: one of the best questions I've taken he
re the back team member that I had. He was amazing, or they made the classic engaging and not like a boring history class. And then I don't know if it's changed since we've been here. But technical writing system Jericha HOPSON: called science major. I didn't really put opportunities to like not creative writing, but not like lab report writing and I really felt like the love for writing and Jericha HOPSON: doing apps with them. So that was pretty fun. Jericha HOPSON: I would say it was an arts
class, but it was his intro to psychology. With Dr. Newman. Jericha HOPSON: He made that class so much more fun, especially for those Jericha HOPSON: intro courses that we have to take away. Jericha HOPSON: I had a added question. So what I always find fascinating about figuring out where our alumni are is to figure out. Did you end up in a career that was perfectly aligned with your major in your path? I know I did not. It seems like maybe you all were deviating. But it's where you want to be,
and I just wanted to know how you feel about Jericha HOPSON: that, do you? How do you feel about the fact that you didn't. It may not line up perfectly. You're not exactly more circuitous. I mean what she's trying to say. Yes. Jericha HOPSON: your thoughts on Jericha HOPSON: go first, and so like said, You know, I thought I was going to go and research, and I wanted to help patients. Couple of people. My family Jericha HOPSON: had medical conditions that were pretty rare. So it's like, I'm gonna
go into research. I'm gonna solve that. I'm gonna fix it. We're done voluntary work in a hospital lots helping patients. Jericha HOPSON: I also found out patient contact was not for me and emotionally connected. Hospital is not the place for me. But starting working from suitable company, like Jericha HOPSON: some of the stuff that we make is for glaucoma. It's for different, like macular degeneration, like we still do things to help patients. And Jericha HOPSON: Nope, did I everything. I was g
onna go into festivations because I absolutely needed writing papers in college. No, didn't think I would ever be there. I love writing now. because I'm still like I get to figure out the problems like I get to solve things in order to make sure it's still helping somebody Jericha HOPSON: and then I switched over to what I do now is process engineering. Jericha HOPSON: So I'm trying to implement things well, to fix situations before it becomes Jericha HOPSON: so helping our patients getting prod
ucts of the door. So but yeah, no one did not think I would be where I am now. Jericha HOPSON: I also didn't think I'd be where I'm now like if you'd ask me like Jericha HOPSON: right now. Jericha HOPSON: But then, yeah, just doing like one thing like, just kind of getting like a feel for higher Ed, like working with students. Jericha HOPSON: I don't really Jericha HOPSON: regret not working in like biology research, cause II did. And I didn't really like it. So I think that was like a good oppo
rtunity for me to kind of see Jericha HOPSON: what something I heard recently was sometimes like doing it already, just like about finding what you don't like rather than just like yourself, and find what you wanted, what you don't do those for your life. Jericha HOPSON: It was a good diagnosis. Jericha HOPSON: and I still appreciate all the skills that I learned and like my undergraduate right? Well, sure. I think, going into the workplace, you're building your tool belt for the next thing. So
you're gathering skills. You're gathering people and contacts. You're gathering. Jericha HOPSON: You're building your tool out like just as you're working through your degree right now, like you're building your tool belt. And so Jericha HOPSON: you always learn things. There's never not learning like. So even like if you learn what you don't like. It's like, Oh, I like this path. How can I go down this path? And so it's Jericha HOPSON: you always be willing and able to learn Jericha HOPSON: que
stions you'll have Jericha HOPSON: what's next for me right now. It's like we have this brand new baby program that Jericha HOPSON: is all-consuming. And so Jericha HOPSON: my hope is to get these new courses launched in the fall, and then Jericha HOPSON: then we'll see cause I mean Jericha HOPSON: to me. So how I ended up Presidential honors and a Master's degree is like, I'm really good at going to school if somebody else is paying for it like that is the way to go and so use. It's fine those
opportunities in it like if somebody else will pay for you to go to school, you're sitting in this room. You're a good student, so use it and say, Sure, thank you, and keep moving down a path. Jericha HOPSON: We are pretty content right now. I'm actually about to finish my first master's hired higher Ed administration. Jericha HOPSON: the first week of May. That's when I graduate. Jericha HOPSON: So I'm gonna take a little break and see kind of reevaluate and see where I'm at, and then go from t
here. But again, I love going to school. I love academic. Jericha HOPSON: It's Jericha HOPSON: you can still complete your degree and then go into something different if you choose to. And I'm performing a lot better in. Jericha HOPSON: Yeah. Jericha HOPSON: sorry. And I, yeah, graduated with biology. And I started my master's this quality and engineering management. So with the engineering department here, actually, it's completely online, which is a whole different switch. Jericha HOPSON: I se
e myself progressing in management, and Jericha HOPSON: whether it's in the the good thing is that degree go across multiple different industries Jericha HOPSON: can be pharmaceuticals can be manufacturing like I'm not pigeonholed with that one degree. Jericha HOPSON: So, but yeah. Jericha HOPSON: switch to number of times. It's about every 5 and a quarter years. With our our plan in Wico Jericha HOPSON: we have so many different opportunities we like all the way from compounding the product, pa
ckaging and shipping out the door to so many different opportunities, said every 5 years. What's the next thing I'll do that I'm like, Okay, I'm in here. Let me get my feet under me. Jericha HOPSON: But what's next always have. Jericha HOPSON: Just gonna ask, did you ever apply to med school, or take the Mk. Or did you change your mind? Jericha HOPSON: No, I knew my like pretty early in my last semester, but it really wasn't for me. Jericha HOPSON: that was just my I kind of like found what I wa
nted to do. So I didn't really see like a benefit doing that. Jericha HOPSON: but I've got to find a few. Jericha HOPSON: You want to do that. Jericha HOPSON: So, pushing for all the help of what? What's I do not plan on finishing out with the doctors. Not that it's a bad thing. It's just Jericha HOPSON: I Jericha HOPSON: in the field, I mean. I don't see the benefit with a doctor's degree. As it is, there's Jericha HOPSON: only a handful of the higher management, even has a master's Jericha HOP
SON: so but having come from a biology background and worked in labs and at the hospital, and everything like switching over to engineering. Jericha HOPSON: I have no idea what I do Jericha HOPSON: absolutely no way like. Every day I walk in and like, Okay, somebody tell me, how do I do this next thing? Jericha HOPSON: So to me, going back and Jericha HOPSON: getting my degree is only gonna help me in the role in hierarchy. Jericha HOPSON: I did not know when I graduated. like, I was like, Okay,
I want to do more school. But I didn't know what I wanted to do it in, so it took me a bit to like Jericha HOPSON: figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up Jericha HOPSON: to go into a graduate degree because I was trying to supplement my application to like go into higher. Ed. So I was having trouble finding jobs, getting to do stuff like that. Jericha HOPSON: And looking at. Jericha HOPSON: I started it for that reason. But I ended up loving it like, I love my classes. I love what I'm le
arning Jericha HOPSON: future degrees is like a maybe like a later question. Definitely, the interest is there but Jericha HOPSON: can actually figure out what I wanted. Jericha HOPSON: Learn like, what do I do next. I think it only helps them here. I'd like working in parallel, getting Jericha HOPSON: more educationally helps. Jericha HOPSON: Yes, I'll get another degree. When is the question and what path that ends up being? Why, I've got a masters is because it was free, right? Jericha HOPSON
: There was a Grant program that said, Hey, we'll play for every math prefix class. Jericha HOPSON: And so it's like, sure I'll get a masters in math, and Jericha HOPSON: you go and do well. Now we have the Phd. Program, the partnership where the system pay. Oh, oh, I know Jericha HOPSON: process smoothly. Jericha HOPSON: Yeah, I have a 5 year old and a 2 and a half year old, and my 2 and a half year old had brain surgery in December. And so, yeah. So that's been the focus right now in my third
child of Hurlton today. So. Jericha HOPSON: Sheila, for since you graduated with your degree and then went right into the masters, it was free. Would you say that that helps having some time not Jericha HOPSON: entering into full adult world. Oh, I. So when I taught high school, and so I taught mainly juniors and seniors, and had, like the high achiever kiddos that Jericha HOPSON: you know and knew the type because I was the type and I told them I was like, if you even have an inkling of getting
another degree. I just Jericha HOPSON: keep going. Stay broke, because once you start making real money, it's hard to go back to making no money. So, yeah, but it's hard to go back to being yeah broke college kid, because Jericha HOPSON: you can live on a grad assistant when you've been living on like student worker pay. but like it feels like a raisish Jericha HOPSON: but I going and making like industry money. real adult job money that I I'd say, just go through. Jericha HOPSON: That's my. Je
richa HOPSON: that's my advice, cause Jericha HOPSON: if you start and then stop, it's like one of those like jumping off the cliff into oblivion of like. Oh, but I had this nice safety net, and it's hard to give that up. And working Jericha HOPSON: and schooling is, y'all can probably attest to is a tad rough. Jericha HOPSON: and you're not having to relearn how to be a student. So you take a break Jericha HOPSON: very, very hard, like, oh, I've got a dedicate study time to get a dedicate writi
ng time. Jericha HOPSON: But yeah, for me, I didn't go straight into master's just Jericha HOPSON: Nope. Jericha HOPSON: you know, might might have to change. I was like, you don't want to get a masters of what I was doing. Jericha HOPSON: and I kind of figure out what I wanted to do. But yeah, it's definitely much harder Jericha HOPSON: to go back after you have a life, a job. Stay. Jericha HOPSON: kids at everything going on. So Jericha HOPSON: what classes? That's can't take 2 classes. That's
not Jericha HOPSON: so Jericha HOPSON: our Jericha HOPSON: topic in Php seminar. This semester is leadership. Many of these students are in that. Some are on the day evenings, so y'all have some leadership roles Jericha HOPSON: leading young people leading the trolls of today program leading your group. What leadership advice do you have Jericha HOPSON: for college kids today? What? What is something that they can Jericha HOPSON: focus on now to help them be leaders in their future. Jericha HOP
SON: I would learn how to be the best listener pros possible. I, being a good leader is listening most of the time. I that is. Jericha HOPSON: you have to listen. and you have to be Jericha HOPSON: to me. I the better you can get it, remembering people's names and faces, helps tremendously in the long run like Jericha HOPSON: it. That is a skill that my dad instilled in essence. Little Bitty is, you learn people's names and remember them like Jericha HOPSON: he has students that he taught 30 yea
rs ago that he will see out and about, and he still remembers their name. And so Jericha HOPSON: no people's name, because their name matters to them. And then listen to what people are saying, because if you can listen, you have a better picture of what's actually going on in the situation. Jericha HOPSON: definitely echoing listening even like sometimes deeper, like it's almost like something there might be like a deeper, hidden, meeting and really listening. You kind of like help. You figure
that out and kind of help the person the best way. Jericha HOPSON: And also I feel like flexibility and openness. something that like I've learned in Jericha HOPSON: working with students is that like a lot of things change really fast? So you're gonna have to be open and flexible with people you work with with leadership stuff like that. Jericha HOPSON: to work through it, then try to work against it. Jericha HOPSON: I would say with me. For me it's it's being able to be vulnerable. People know
you're big, real, like Jericha HOPSON: the ones that are like. Oh, no, I'm perfect. I haven't made a mistake. Jericha HOPSON: You're not gonna trust them. You're not gonna go to the issues because you're gonna you're you're gonna feel like you're gonna there's gonna look down on you. Jericha HOPSON: They've done no wrong as whenever I'm teaching somebody that you know, like sheep. I've made this mistake. I've been here. I've screwed this test up, like, you know, learn from my mistakes, Jericha
HOPSON: you know, really help show them that it's okay to make a mistake. It's okay. Even with investigations. I'm like, look Jericha HOPSON: for people. Things happen like what helped me to help you learn how I'd make this better, so that we only ever have to pass shed on all the way up again. Jericha HOPSON: So just being vulnerable, being open, and showing that like here. Jericha HOPSON: I have another question. I counted 5 so something that is a common theme for students, especially high TV
students, especially those in stem, is maybe a little Jericha HOPSON: less of development of soft skills. So I was wondering for y'all, what was one soft skill that we were surprised. Jericha HOPSON: That was so important to your success. That makes sense. Jericha HOPSON: Thanks. People, interaction have to be able to talk to people. Jericha HOPSON: And and sometimes you find the thing that you haven't problem Jericha HOPSON: like with me. I work with a lot of people that are older like, you kno
w, what's going on. What can we help with like Jericha HOPSON: being able to Jericha HOPSON: today? It's you don't always have to open up it if you get them, know that. And being able to talk. Jericha HOPSON: I was absolutely part of that, and also just to come back to communication in general, because, no matter what you do in the future, it's kind of revolve working with people working with Jericha HOPSON: like a large team for a small team. Jericha HOPSON: The vector communication only helps
the workplace. Guessing, moving goals. Better Jericha HOPSON: practice in class making friends, getting involved stuff like that, pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone Jericha HOPSON: . Jericha HOPSON: The softish skill being digitally organized and being able to find stuff Jericha HOPSON: like. My sister and I were talking about this yesterday, actually on the drive of how we live out of our downloads folder way. Too much like things go into downloads, and then they never migrate. So I
the learning how you work best Jericha HOPSON: like I am a I still love my sticky notes, and, like all around my little keyboard, is a sticky note pile. And then there's like the sticky note, archive Jericha HOPSON: that gets cleaned out every few months of things that happened. so Jericha HOPSON: finding a way to be digitally organized because you are gonna be tied to a device and the snow, if and much around it, a device is gonna be part of your life. And so Jericha HOPSON: digital organizati
on skills. Jericha HOPSON: self adhesive action reminders. We got to that Jericha HOPSON: didn't have sticky books at the pharmaceutical plan. Jericha HOPSON: Digital organizational skills. Jericha HOPSON: See? It being Jericha HOPSON: well, I guess I'll die. And I'm developing soft skills. What clothes activities, organizations! Were you all involved with that Tarleton that helped build those skills? You all just talked about as an Alpha phi omega to the Covid service returning, and us so. Jeri
cha HOPSON: and Michael. Jericha HOPSON: if they ever do like the Jericha HOPSON: no, that was another group. and Jericha HOPSON: but we they could like get a picture of their ugly person like Penny, or like the silver coins were plus. And then, like pennies, were negative. Jericha HOPSON: Whoever it's just raising money, whoever one like the money we go to their organization. Jericha HOPSON: So Jericha HOPSON: Sigma and so I ended up being on the National committee for Phi to Sigma. And it's th
at's a wonderful opportunity. If Jericha HOPSON: so. it is a freshman sophomore honors, organizations. That is a national Jericha HOPSON: program. That people from all over got to travel to like Salt Lake City, Alabama, and Tennessee, like all part of the National Committee process. and Jericha HOPSON: it got me. It was one of the other things that got me very comfortable talking in front of people because you met people from all over, and you got to do presentations and all of that fun. And so
Jericha HOPSON: and that was one of my Jericha HOPSON: organizations on campus. That Jericha HOPSON: it's on them Jericha HOPSON: is a really great organization they bring in still pays their dues somehow on campus here. Cause it's still on the national website. So I wonder who's in charge of that? Jericha HOPSON: Yeah. Cause it was college science. Jericha HOPSON: Yeah, finishing was a freshman sophomore. Jericha HOPSON: So yeah, so yeah, I would say, definitely like, we recruited every semeste
r. So that elevator speech is that can you say who you are? What you want? Where you plan to go? Jericha HOPSON: 2 min is getting people's attention longer than that, especially your leadership. Jericha HOPSON: just like I think they're right in between meetings. They're they need the details right now, right there. They don't need your last story, and I mean 5 min that they have. which is fantastic for job interviews Jericha HOPSON: investors and mentors. Also a great program. I did that for 3
years. And it was amazing. Res life, or else really fun, too, if all the time Jericha HOPSON: the commitment it's really great. Hannah is currently in. let's see. Thank you. Thank you. And those of you who are first year Jericha HOPSON: or G next year. Jericha HOPSON: saying no is for after graduation. Jericha HOPSON: before we wrap up her cookies. Any other Jericha HOPSON: comments. Questions. Jericha HOPSON: yes, I have. Jericha HOPSON: So this one is a little outside. So it's a little outside
. But with the prevalence of AI and literally every industry, regardless of what you're doing, I would be interested to know how you've seen the influence in your specific. Jericha HOPSON: I use it, I at least weekly. Jericha HOPSON: As I've Jericha HOPSON: so I am mathematician. I am not a good fluffy email writer that these school leaders want to read. And so I love AI, cause you could say, here's the facts I'm trying to get across. Here's Charlton's mission and values. Jericha HOPSON: And can
you please write me a fluffy Jericha HOPSON: email and get a pretty good draft, and you'd be a cognizant human being edit it for what it actually says, and then there you have it. So to me it's for those Jericha HOPSON: tasks that you might not be the best at use it for the power of good and not evil. Jericha HOPSON: There's this one soon. I have who writes all his emails with, there's always duplications and chat Gvt stuff like it'll say the same thing 17 times. It's like we might need to just
say, Thank you once instead of so Jericha HOPSON: yeah, there's, oh, yeah, you can definitely tell. But take some. Jericha HOPSON: And every email is identical except for the one personally found like a good use for it, like an advising Jericha HOPSON: I know my co-worker. We have quizzers like in our school, like for our knowledge of our team, specifically and one of the great coaches uses that kind of like to generate job descriptions, or like find stuff like registration. Jericha HOPSON: We
are not allowed to use AI Jericha HOPSON: pharmaceutical plan. We have recipes. We have things that are Jericha HOPSON: registered products that we cannot have that information now. So you're not allowed to use it. But funny thing is, people be like handy to say something that's like this, and they come to me, and they're like Jericha HOPSON: help with Jericha HOPSON: more intelligence, less artificial. Jericha HOPSON: I just add, when I add the fluff. So not a good fluffer. So Jericha HOPSON: I
have an interesting non relationship with AI. So I want to use a app. But I'm in graduate school, and I don't want to be tempted to use it while I'm actively writing my dissertation. So like. Jericha HOPSON: I'm like getting through that. And then I want to figure out how to use it like in the workplace, and you know, to make things better. But like, I don't want to be like tempted. So I actually haven't. But I'm going there eventually. It's coming. So I think we need to know how to be tempted.
Jericha HOPSON: Yeah, 30 years. None of us have. Jericha HOPSON: I need the opposite of AI pages and turn it into 2 pages. Yeah, consistently. Yeah, let's Jericha HOPSON: yeah, I think there actually is an AI that does. Yeah. Microsoft is rolling out a new one. So they have. Like 2 different versions of AI, they have their like programming bird version that runs like in the background that'll help with scripting. And then there's also a like people facing one. And so I read about that one that
oops. Jericha HOPSON: There's a yeah. There's a one that can help like Jericha HOPSON: it. They say it helps. And it's more. It's machine learning right now is what it's doing is trying to figure out like how to maximize like what comes into your email and what your priority test should be, and things like that. And so it's it's interesting to me to lead, read its little reports and say what it thinks. It's important. Jericha HOPSON: Yeah, do we have any questions online? Jericha HOPSON: Well, I
think we can convene to the lobby? Jericha HOPSON: And I will check that, I'm pretty sure.
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