Live the Campus Life

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All right everyone, now we’re gonna go head over and see where Panthers live, and meet Delaney. She lives and works on campus while studying neuroscience based life coaching. Delaney can’t wait to tell you about all the opportunities to get involved at FIU. You’ll need some coffee or cafecito as they call it around here to keep up with her and her fellow Panthers. Take it away Delaney.

Thanks Alex, and hey everybody, my name is Delaney Dockstader. I’m gonna do the best I can to give you a true look inside the FIU culture. Here we’re all about diversity, hence our name Florida International University. Our campuses have students and professors from all over the world. Just imagine where you can learn outside of the classroom, just by getting involved on campus. That’s why it’s so important to get yourself out there and get going on professional relationships and start finding your lifelong friends, because those are gonna be the people that suit you best for your future. Your drive to connect with people on top of your academic devotion, will set you up for the greatest thing success can bring. So I encourage you, but really I challenge you to get the heck out there, go to the pool, go play some volleyball with your friends, ask professors to have lunch with you, and don’t ever forget about having fun. Head over to the recreation center because when you do visit, you’re gonna see why it’s everyone’s favorite place on campus. We have all sorts of activities from Kendo, to badminton, fencing, to archery, to special Olympics practices, we have it all go get in on that. Now lemme tell you a little bit about what I do every morning. Do my federal work study job, I’m an assistant athletic trainer. And when I first started I’d stay hours after work every day getting the therapies down. The why, the when, the how, the who should and shouldn’t receive the treatment. Fast forward a couple of months and here I am administering all sorts of therapies from cryotherapy to cupping, to electrical stimulation, to compression units on a daily basis. These are the types of experiences you gain here from FIU. And trust me strive for those internships in research labs, because our school is classified as R1 by Carnegie, which means it has some of the highest research activity in community engagement in the country. Right now I’m applying for my second round to the neurocircuitry in cognition lab here on campus. And I am so excited to connect with the researchers, and stay tuned because big things are happening and I can’t wait to see you here doing your thing too. So peace out, go Panthers and back to you Alex.

Wow, this is definitely a vibrant university for a vibrant city. Thank you Delaney, it’s great to see you bring that energy to the research lab, take care.