- Hey guys.
My name is Lydia, and I'm
from Kent, Washington.
I'm a senior studying
computer science at George Fox,
and this week I'm going
to show you what it's like
to be a student at George Fox University.
All right guys, it's Monday morning.
I'm on my way to my only
class of the day, ceramics.
It's a ton of fun,
and a really nice break.
Something that I really
like about electives
at George Fox
is you can take
a wide variety of them,
and so they're not always
classes in your major.
But yeah.
Ceramics up next.
So, I'm in ceramics class.
And today,
we're going to fix this,
because I made it and then it chipped.
But, I'm also going to work
on the wheel a little bit.
You can see behind.
But I'm gonna
bring you guys over to Holly,
and see what Holly's doing. 
Hi Holly.
- Good morning.
- Show us what you're doing
- We're working on some pottery.
I'm glazing.
These are options.
- Wow.
- I have some little pieces
and some teacups to make.
- Ooh. The teacups.
Show them the me and the you.
- This one's your cup.
And this one's my cup.
- Incredible.
- Because we don't want
to argue about sharing.
- Right now, it's
7:45 a.m. About 15 minutes
until my first class.
I definitely woke up 15 minutes ago,
but I found that in a dorm, especially,
it's usually enough
time to brush your teeth,
take a shower, get ready.
I do recommend waking up
earlier than just 30 minutes
before your class, if you want
a good healthy breakfast though.
So, a little bit about my morning routine.
Here's my room...
That's my roommate, Sarah.
- Hi.
- Sarah's great.
So after I wake up, I take a
shower, go to the bathroom.
Things I would recommend about
taking a shower in a dorm:
bring flip-flops.
Flip-flops are a great life hack.
After I wake up, I like to
check my Google calendar
and the weather.
I have two classes,
then...
I have a lot of homework to do,
a third class,
and then I have a badminton game tonight
for intramurals.
So, you'll get to follow
me throughout my day,
see what a computer
science class looks like.
And yeah. That's pretty much it.
Now, I gotta pack my backpack
and run out the door.
All right guys.
This is our first class of the day.
8:00 a.m.
So exciting.
Would you recommend taking
8:00 a.m.'s, Nathan?
- I wouldn't.
- Okay.
This is Databases.
This is a class in the
computer science major.
Our professor brings
in coffee for us every morning.
Which is great.
There's Kimberly getting coffee.
Say hi, Kimberly.
- Hello, Kimberly.
- That's funny.
- You didn't do it right!
- This is our class.
We sit in these nice little space chairs.
Okay.
We just finished class.
We're heading out now.
- Okay, really?
- Aww.
Wait Gabe, you
don't want to be in this?
Whoa look, there's Matt.
Okay.
- Hi friends.
- Bye, Matt.
This is Carlee.
She's also a computer science major.
She's a junior.
- Hello.
- One of the
best parts of George Fox
is the incredible professors.
This is Dr. Orr.
- Hello.
- He teaches computer science at George Fox.
- This is gonna be really strange.
How do I like it?
I'm an alum, so I graduated years ago.
I'm a big believer in it.
Produced a lot of great students.
What I like about it,
it's really personal,
you get to know the students,
there's a really familial atmosphere,
between the professors, too.
So it's a
nice place to work.
Nice students to work with.
We have really high standards.
It's fun, I don't know.
- That's perfect.
Thank you so much.
We want to convince people
to come to George Fox...
- Okay.
- ...to study computer science.
- I see.
- Okay. I'll let you guys
get back to your stuff.
This is real footage of a student
being helped by a professor.
See you guys later.
One of the best parts of George Fox
is the Bruin Den.
'Cause you can walk in and
just find really cool people.
This is Coleman,
that's Joseph.
- The Bruin Den's pretty great.
- Yes.
We should spin it around,
so they can see what it looks like.
- You have to make sure you come here
when you're feeling ready
to, like, see people.
Although today,
right now it's a little chill.
But you will always find
five or 10 people here
that you know.
- Yeah.
It's a great place to study and get food.
So one of my favorite
things about George Fox,
is you can just be
walking along and you'll
see your professors,
and you can just say hi.
They're so friendly.
- Hi.
- Hi, this is Dr. Choi,
and that's Dr. Garcia.
What do you guys teach?
- Honors and philosophy.
- Nice.
- And I teach theology, and in honors.
- So, I'm done with my computer
science classes for the day.
My next class is at 3:00.
Right now it's 1:38 p.m.
and so I'm gonna go do some homework
in Chapters, which is a
local coffee shop in Newberg.
- Coffee, coffee.
- Coleman is really
excited about his coffee.
- Yeah, there's a lot
of coffee shops in Newberg,
which is one of my
favorite things about Newberg.
There's always someplace
to go hang out with your friends.
And, there's always a 
place to go do homework.
We're gonna go to Chapters.
Joseph's here, too.
So, I'm at Chapters now.
And I'm going to be reading
this book, for honors,
in an hour.
I'll get to show you guys
a little bit of what seminar looks like.
Every Tuesday and Thursday,
we meet in this incredible...
Oh.
Okay.
We meet in this incredible room.
And, today we're talking about...
this book.
Yep.
Yeah. Kaylee, what do
you like about Honors?
- Oh, I was not expecting 
to be questioned.
I like the...
just environment of being able to talk
about how we interpret a book, without
much judgment.
- Oh, dude, same. Same. Yeah.
So, we're gonna get back to seminar.
We have another hour.
Another hour to go. Yeah.
So, that's a sneak peak
of what honors is like.
I'll talk to you guys later.
Peace out.
So, this is the Maker Hub.
There's a lot of study rooms in here.
You're allowed to do our homework in here,
'cause it's very spacious.
There's a lot of little
rooms you can meet in,
with whiteboards.
Gabe's gonna find us a room,
so that we can do our homework for class.
The class that we just got out of.
Also, Gabe, introduce yourself.
- I'm Gabe.
- Gabe's also a computer science major.
So, in between classes, is
usually full of doing homework.
Something I like to do
when I'm doing homework is
put all my assignments
into a bullet journal.
So, every week, I like,
make a little box for
what I need to do each day.
And that helps me organize
what I need to do.
And my Google calendar
is usually always open.
I'm gonna talk about Google
calendar a lot this week.
But yeah.
So, I guess for the next
two hours or so, Gabe and I gonna work on
Database homework, Computer
Architecture homework,
and hopefully get that done
before our next class at 12.
6:45, so I got out of
Honors a little while ago,
and just got done playing
intramural badminton.
This is Brett.
- Yeah.
- He's my partner. Also, my boss.
I guess I should introduce you
in a more official capacity.
So, I'm an RA.
Which means I'm a resident assistant.
I get to be in a
hall with 30 other girls.
And, I do a lot of stuff.
- You do a lot of stuff.
- I do a lot of stuff.
- And you do it well.
- But, Brett is my boss.
Oh, Thank-you.
Brett is my boss,
so he's in charge of
our RAs in our building.
But he's also my badminton partner.
And we just won.
We just play.
And we won pretty good, didn't we?
- Yeah, they didn't give
us much of a challenge.
It's pretty much the end of my day.
I have come back to my dorm, Newlin.
Here's Josh. He's on my
staff. He's also an RA.
Hit him up. He's a cowboy in real life.
Incredible.
And here's Makayla.
Hi, Makayla.
Hey guys, so it's...
2:00 p.m. on a Friday afternoon.
Which means it's basically
the end of my week.
All of my classes for
computer science are on
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
So, once I hit 12:00 on Friday,
pretty much, that's my weekend.
I would recommend getting
ahead of homework on Fridays,
instead of using those afternoons,
it's very tempting to
go do whatever you want,
'cause it feels like the weekend, but...
It's a really good idea
to do your homework
on Friday afternoons,
so that you have all
of Saturday and Sunday
to do whatever you want and relax.
But I figured I'd show you
guys around my dorm room.
So, right next to the
door we have this hook.
We like to put our keys on a lanyard,
and then stick 'em on this hook,
so that whenever we're
running out the door,
we don't forget our keys.
'Cause, we get locked
out of our rooms a lot,
if we don't remember our keys.
So, it's nice to have a hook
right next to your door,
so that you can just grab
your keys on your way out.
Another handy-dandy thing,
is having a full-length mirror
right next to your door,
so that if you're running out
in a super hurry in the mornings,
you can just check yourself in the mirror
really quickly before you go.
Um, let's see here.
As far as decorations go,
I like using Command Hooks
and Command Strips a lot.
'Cause they don't leave
a mark on the wall.
So, for like, hanging things,
I like to use hooks.
But, for everything else,
I really like using Velcro strips.
So, you see I have these decorations,
I just put Command Velcro on the back,
and then on the wall.
And, it's super handy,
because you can just
stick it on, stick it off.
And, very easy to remove,
and you don't have to worry about hooks,
or things like that.
Especially for like,
flat things like that,
that are hard to just hang.
Let's see here.
What else is handy?
Ooh.
Also, as a computer science major,
I really recommend bringing
your own monitor to school,
and just leaving it in your room.
My monitor's on Sarah's desk.
But, there's my monitor.
It's just really handy,
especially if you work
on your laptop a lot,
to have that second screen.
And then it makes
your room a little easier
to do homework in.
Something that we also
use a lot in our room,
we got a mini vacuum, and it's so cute.
This little, baby vacuum.
Something that's also nice
to decorate a dorm room with,
is plants.
This is our Brazilian plant named Luca.
Plants are a really
nice option to decorate
a dorm room with.
And, we have plant
shops downtown in Newberg,
so you can easily get some green friends.
But yeah. That's pretty
much it. That's our room.
It's super cozy.
It's pretty big, actually,
compared to most of the
other dorm rooms on campus.
So it's pretty spacious.
But yeah.
I definitely love living in a dorm.
There's it's ups and downs.
Like, you don't have
your own personal space,
like you would in a house.
And you don't have a living room,
or a kitchen that's,
like, all to yourself.
But, living in a dorm
room is a lot of fun.
'Cause, you get a
roommate most of the time,
you get to live in a hall
with a bunch of other girls,
there's usually people
around, stuff to do.
Lots of things to do when you hang out.
Good morning, everyone.
It's 8:35 a.m.
on a Saturday morning.
And, today
I have
a programming contest.
So, it's at George Fox and
a bunch of other schools,
like OSU, or Linfield, or Lewis & Clark.
All send teams, and we all
spend the entire day
coding.
And we compete against each other to see
who can solve
the most problems.
And I can't record
inside the competition.
But...
I'll give you a sneak peak
of what it looks like.
So.
What is it like to be a
CS major at George Fox?
I love it.
The class sizes are very small.
The teachers are super personable,
and, like, really
willing to help all the time.
The program itself is
really rigorous, and so,
the people that graduate,
graduate ready for the industry,
which is something that
I really appreciate.
And yeah,
because your class sizes, your
cohort sizes are so small,
you become close to your classmates.
So, I'm pretty tight with
a couple of my classmates.
And you basically
travel with the same group
through all four years,
with a couple exceptions.
Because you basically all take
the same core classes,
And they're usually all
offered at the same time,
'cause there's not that many of us,
so we all fit into one section of a class.
I would say my favorite course
that I've taken in my major
would be
Software Engineering,
which is a class that I
took my sophomore year,
where the entire class
was divided up into groups,
into teams.
And we basically pretended to be
a software development team,
where each of us played a different role.
Like, we would have a project manager,
or a client liaison,
or somebody who's the tech support.
And that was really fun.
We basically got
to pretend we were a team
in the real world.
And we had got to go to a client,
which in this case was my professor,
and work on a
project for the client.
That was a ton of fun,
and taught me a lot about what
industry was going to look like.
Yeah, so that was probably
my favorite class.
All the other classes are
a lot of fun, as well.
They're not easy.
It's computer science,
but I learn a lot.
And they prepared me really
well for the internships.
There's a lot of really good
internship opportunities
in this area,
since a lot of the companies have worked
with George Fox before.
So, yeah; there's a lot of
internship opportunities.
If you work hard, you'll most
likely be able to find one
that fits what you like.
So two years ago I got
to intern down in Florida,
at Florida Tech, as a research assistant.
And that was through an
email that my professor sent out
to all the CS students.
So, they're pretty plugged-in
to what's going on.
They usually send
out announcements about
internships and things like that.
So, that's how I got my first internship.
And my second internship
was with Amazon in Seattle,
this past summer.
And yeah,
the classes that I took at George Fox
leading up to that internship
really prepared me for
the interview process,
and for what the actual
internship was going to be.
So, yeah.
Being a CS major at George Fox
does take time, but it's very doable.
I can fit in a lot of extra curriculars
and electives with it.
And yeah, you make a lot
of really great friends,
and a lot of really great connections.
The professors are incredible,
they know what they're doing.
They've all worked in
industry, at some point;
most of them have.
And they're just really
invested in the well-being
of each individual student.
Being a CS major at George
Fox has been a ton of fun,
and would highly recommend
if you're interested in that.
Hey guys, I just got here.
This is Carlee. You would
have met her earlier.
- Hello.
- But, she's also a CS
major. She's a junior,
and she's volunteering
today at the competition.
So, we'll just go over here,
and meet a bunch of nerds.
- Hi.
- Dani and Ella,
what do you guys like about
studying CS at George Fox?
- I like that it's a
small community of people.
And that we get to hang
out and interact together.
- I like that it's challenging,
and I get to hack things.
- That pretty much wraps up
the life of a computer science major.
Thank you guys for following
me for the last couple days,
to get a glimpse of what it's
like to study computer science
at George Fox.
Coming to George Fox was one of the
best decisions I've ever made.
