My Top 5 moments at WVC:

Why they were special to me

5. Hunting For Easter Eggs

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Credit: @wabashvalleycollege on TikTok

My first year at WVC, the college hosted a campus-wide Easter egg hunt for three days during the Easter season. This event was especially memorable because it was the first time I had the opportunity to fully explore the entire WVC campus. My friend Max and I spent a lot of time looking for eggs, finding them, and then re-hiding them. I had the opportunity to interact with many other students and staff whom I had never met before while doing this. It was a very lighthearted, fun activity that I think really represents the effort that the staff wants to put in for the students.

4. Watching our projects together.

At the end of my first year at Wabash, as a class, we all got together to watch each other's class projects. This was a really cool experience for plenty of reasons. We all got to show off our own personal skills, but also see what each other had been spending time doing. A lot of time went into each of these individual projects. It was fun to reflect on all of the time spent working in the studio, editing video and voice tracks, sorting through hours of footage to find clips. Looking back on it now, I get very nostalgic. I think this is because it was a hard task to complete, but it was rewarding in the end.

3. Making the Hype video for the basketball team

Credit: Quianna McGee

This was one of the most memorable experiences from my second year. A couple of my classmates and I got to create the hype video that played before games for the basketball team. This was a really cool experience because Wabash is such a sports-focused school. To be a part of any of the athletics was really a privilege. Working with the coach, Terrance McGee, on this was a great experience. This really allowed an understanding of how situations like this would work in a scenario at an actual job after college. Getting to interact with the basketball team was my favorite part of this. I went from watching and filming the basketball team for the first year and a half to actually talking to them and getting a look at their personalities behind the game. It was really cool to see the athletes in their everyday life, and getting to see how the coach interacted with them. Putting together the video was also a lot of fun, working with others to find out what we wanted and incorporating songs and clips that the team had requested. The editing process was one of the most memorable parts of this because it takes so long to go through something like that. We worked hard, and I was proud of the video when we were finished.

2. The Radio/TV trip to Evansville

Press Box at The University of Evansville

 At the end of my first year, the Radio/TV group took a trip to Evansville, Indiana, to visit WNIN, the news and radio station in Evansville, and we also visited the University of Evansville. When we were at WNIN, we got to see all the different kinds of cool and interesting parts of the professional media world. As we toured the building, we went through server rooms filled with computers and walls lined with perfectly organized cables. We also went through the rooms where they film the news and where they do podcasts. We even got to go into their offices and speak with the employees there to get their ideas and opinions on all things media related. When we went to the University of Evansville, we were given a tour of the baseball field and the press box there by a prior student who was in the radio/tv program. We were taken into their media van, where they had computers and all sorts of broadcasting equipment. Then they took us through the dugout onto the field and up to the press box. This was a really cool experience to get to walk out on the baseball field and up into the press box.

1. Meeting Max Gerlach

My first year coming to WVC, I started not knowing anyone else in the school, let alone in my classes. I met Max Gerlach early on in the year, and we quickly became friends. People always talk about the lifelong friends they made in college, and I can confidently say that Max will be one of mine. From projects to lunch and all of our classes, and even our internship together, for 99% of my time at WVC Max was right there with me. It was great to have someone with a lot of the same interests as me in the program I was in. Max and I both are, in a sense, outliers from the rest of the people in our program, and I’m not sure if I would’ve made friends with anyone if not for him. Of all the great things I have taken from Wabash, I would say this friendship is the best of them all.