{"id":23943,"date":"2020-05-26T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T18:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwqa.ucf.edu\/online\/?p=23808"},"modified":"2024-03-14T13:44:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:44:31","slug":"ucf-online-student-interview-series-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/online\/ucf-online-student-interview-series-episode-1\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Online Student Interview Series | Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container mb-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" col-xl-10 offset-xl-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 mb-4 mb-md-5\">\n<iframe title=\"UCF Online Student Interview Series | Episode 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VyEYsIVE6io?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container my-1 pb-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\" col-lg-12\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div id=\"accordion\">\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"card-header pt-0\" aria-controls=\"collapseOne\" id=\"headingOne\">\n      <span class=\"h5 mb-0\"><br>\n        <a data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapseOne\"><br>\n         Video Transcription<br>\n        <\/a><br>\n      <\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseOne\" class=\"collapse\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"headingOne\" data-parent=\"#accordion\">\n<div class=\"card-block\">\n<p>00:01<br>\n[Music]<br>\n00:08<br>\nmy name is Melanie toribio and I&#8217;m a<br>\n00:11<br>\nsuccess coach for the UCF online connect<br>\n00:14<br>\nCenter I&#8217;m joined today by UCF online<br>\n00:17<br>\nstudent Dasha Thompson and we&#8217;re going<br>\n00:19<br>\nto dive into a bit of conversation about<br>\n00:21<br>\nwhat it&#8217;s like to be a UCF online night<br>\n00:24<br>\nso let&#8217;s get started thank you for<br>\n00:27<br>\nhaving me yeah of course so could you<br>\n00:30<br>\nstart by telling me a little bit about<br>\n00:32<br>\nyourself your name where you&#8217;re located<br>\n00:35<br>\nyour program and your graduating class<br>\n00:38<br>\nyeah so my name is are Joshua Thompson I<br>\n00:41<br>\nwas actually born and raised in Orlando<br>\n00:43<br>\nso UCF was always going to be my number<br>\n00:46<br>\none choice my major was health service<br>\n00:49<br>\nadministration and I worked closely with<br>\n00:52<br>\nJennifer with my time with you SIA<br>\n00:56<br>\nexcellent and what drove you to want to<br>\n01:00<br>\ncomplete a bachelor&#8217;s degree I always<br>\n01:04<br>\nwanted to go to medical school and<br>\n01:05<br>\nbecome a doctor but aside from just<br>\n01:08<br>\nlearning the clinical aspect of medicine<br>\n01:10<br>\nI also wanted to learn the<br>\n01:12<br>\nadministrative side of medicine because<br>\n01:15<br>\nI hope to one day maybe try to change<br>\n01:18<br>\nsome policies and create a better system<br>\n01:21<br>\nthat works for our healthcare system so<br>\n01:24<br>\nwe can improve it and be more up-to-date<br>\n01:27<br>\nwith other countries such as like the<br>\n01:29<br>\nUnited Kingdom or Canada I just want to<br>\n01:32<br>\nimprove our health care system and the<br>\n01:34<br>\nway that we practice medicine here in<br>\n01:36<br>\nthe United States excellent such a<br>\n01:38<br>\nrelevant topic today but what why did<br>\n01:44<br>\nyou choose online learning as your<br>\n01:46<br>\npreferred method for degree completion<br>\n01:48<br>\nwell I had to work full time in order to<br>\n01:52<br>\nsupport myself and you know I had to<br>\n01:55<br>\nhave a job so UCF online was perfect for<br>\n01:58<br>\nme because it was very flexible and I it<br>\n02:01<br>\nworked really well with my schedule I<br>\n02:02<br>\nwas able to work full time like usual<br>\n02:04<br>\nbut I was also able to complete all the<br>\n02:06<br>\ncourses I needed on time to graduate<br>\n02:09<br>\nwith UCF I said it offered a lot<br>\n02:13<br>\nflexibility than the face-to-face<br>\n02:15<br>\nclasses exactly what what has your<br>\n02:17<br>\nexperience with your online classes been<br>\n02:20<br>\nlike so far the the experience has been<br>\n02:23<br>\namazing all my teachers were very<br>\n02:26<br>\nhelpful they were all anytime I had a<br>\n02:29<br>\nquestion or if I was a bit confused for<br>\n02:31<br>\nanything<br>\n02:31<br>\nthey were always able to respond back<br>\n02:34<br>\nimmediately<br>\n02:35<br>\naside from that there&#8217;s a lot of<br>\n02:37<br>\nfeatures on the online course such as<br>\n02:40<br>\nlike the calendar feature where if you<br>\n02:42<br>\nhave any assignments or if you don&#8217;t<br>\n02:45<br>\nknow when things are due it tells you<br>\n02:46<br>\nexactly what things are due and that was<br>\n02:48<br>\nprobably the most helpful for me I never<br>\n02:50<br>\nmissed any assignment because of that<br>\n02:52<br>\nfeature there&#8217;s just a bunch of ways to<br>\n02:55<br>\nalways keep in communication with your<br>\n02:57<br>\nprofessors so although you can&#8217;t see<br>\n03:00<br>\nthem face to face you can always call<br>\n03:02<br>\nthem you can email them sometimes<br>\n03:04<br>\nthey&#8217;ll even Skype with you if necessary<br>\n03:06<br>\nso it was it didn&#8217;t really seem like a<br>\n03:09<br>\ndifference from any campus<br>\n03:11<br>\nsituation for me yeah those are all<br>\n03:14<br>\nreally helpful tools that you were able<br>\n03:16<br>\nto utilize through canvas what are some<br>\n03:19<br>\nadditional tips that you&#8217;d like to share<br>\n03:21<br>\nor give to anyone who&#8217;s currently<br>\n03:25<br>\nlearning online some recommendations I<br>\n03:28<br>\nhave is to always just reach out to a<br>\n03:31<br>\nprofessor if you have any questions or<br>\n03:33<br>\nanything they are there to help you they<br>\n03:36<br>\nwant to see you succeed so as long as<br>\n03:38<br>\nyou reach out to them and utilize that<br>\n03:40<br>\nresource you will do as well if you want<br>\n03:43<br>\nto do as I mentioned before just try to<br>\n03:46<br>\nuse that calendar feature because it<br>\n03:49<br>\nalways will just keep you up to date<br>\n03:50<br>\nwith all your assignments so you&#8217;ll<br>\n03:52<br>\nnever miss an assignment or you&#8217;ll never<br>\n03:55<br>\nwait to the last minute to try to<br>\n03:57<br>\ncomplete assignment it tells you your<br>\n03:59<br>\nentire semester of assignments so you<br>\n04:01<br>\ncan even work ahead if you would like<br>\n04:03<br>\nand that was probably like the greatest<br>\n04:05<br>\nfeature for me that contributed to my<br>\n04:07<br>\nsuccess with the UCF yeah I&#8217;m sure<br>\n04:09<br>\nespecially with online classes where you<br>\n04:11<br>\nare given a lot more flexibility um<br>\n04:15<br>\nself-discipline time management those<br>\n04:17<br>\nare all really important things to that<br>\n04:19<br>\nfactor into to your success as a student<br>\n04:22<br>\ndo you have any advice for students<br>\n04:25<br>\napplying to UCF online<br>\n04:27<br>\nyeah I would definitely say is figure<br>\n04:31<br>\nout the best schedule for you and then<br>\n04:34<br>\njust pick classes according to that so<br>\n04:36<br>\nif you know that you work all day and<br>\n04:38<br>\nmaybe you only have a couple hours after<br>\n04:41<br>\nwork<br>\n04:42<br>\ndon&#8217;t make I wouldn&#8217;t choose maybe like<br>\n04:45<br>\nfour or five classes maybe just choose<br>\n04:47<br>\none or two classes just to see if you<br>\n04:49<br>\ncan do that because it takes a lot of<br>\n04:53<br>\nself-discipline for online learning it&#8217;s<br>\n04:56<br>\nnot like you go to class and the teacher<br>\n04:57<br>\ntells you you need to do this on this<br>\n04:59<br>\nday it definitely take you have to take<br>\n05:01<br>\nit upon yourself to really want to do<br>\n05:04<br>\nthe work and so definitely just create a<br>\n05:07<br>\nschedule for yourself and as I mentioned<br>\n05:11<br>\nbefore definitely if you have any<br>\n05:12<br>\nquestions or any concerns just<br>\n05:14<br>\ndefinitely just try to reach out to an<br>\n05:15<br>\nadvisor or a teacher so that they can<br>\n05:17<br>\nhelp you succeed because we all want to<br>\n05:19<br>\nsee your success it&#8217;s good to ease your<br>\n05:23<br>\nway in to things rather than overload<br>\n05:25<br>\nyourself and not having enough time to<br>\n05:28<br>\nmanage all of the the different<br>\n05:31<br>\ncommitments now we&#8217;re gonna shift into<br>\n05:34<br>\nsome more questions regarding your<br>\n05:36<br>\nrelationship with your success coach so<br>\n05:39<br>\nwhat were your initial thoughts on<br>\n05:41<br>\ncoaching I that is a great question I<br>\n05:46<br>\nwas never used to coaching I know that<br>\n05:49<br>\nyou have an academic advisor where you<br>\n05:52<br>\ncan reach out to them if you had any<br>\n05:54<br>\nquestions so for me having good coach<br>\n05:56<br>\nwas almost like having two academic<br>\n05:58<br>\nadvisors because if academically I could<br>\n06:01<br>\nreach out to my advisor but if I had any<br>\n06:03<br>\nquestions about the program or any<br>\n06:05<br>\nquestions about anything in general<br>\n06:07<br>\nJennifer my coach was always really<br>\n06:09<br>\nthere for me she always emailed me she<br>\n06:12<br>\nalways called we made monthly meetings<br>\n06:16<br>\njust to discuss where I was my future<br>\n06:19<br>\ngoals<br>\n06:19<br>\nif classes were going as expected so I<br>\n06:22<br>\nthought coaching was was really good<br>\n06:25<br>\nbecause Jennifer always checked in on me<br>\n06:27<br>\nand she just wanted to make sure that<br>\n06:29<br>\neverything was going as well as I hoped<br>\n06:32<br>\nand fortunately it did go well so it&#8217;s<br>\n06:35<br>\nthat additional layer of support<br>\n06:38<br>\ngreat and what how do you feel that the<br>\n06:44<br>\nrelationship with Jennifer on with your<br>\n06:46<br>\nsuccess coach has impacted your<br>\n06:48<br>\nexperience here at UCF I personally<br>\n06:52<br>\nthink that my relationship with Jennifer<br>\n06:55<br>\nsince we worked together though it<br>\n06:58<br>\nreally improved my my coursework with<br>\n07:02<br>\nUCF because I felt that Jennifer also<br>\n07:05<br>\nkind of kept me accountable for all the<br>\n07:09<br>\ndecisions that I made if I ever had any<br>\n07:12<br>\nquestions as far as like maybe even<br>\n07:15<br>\ngraduate school which I did get accepted<br>\n07:17<br>\nto Jennifer would like help me she would<br>\n07:20<br>\nsay like oh try to find funding or like<br>\n07:23<br>\nwhat are the criteria so Jennifer was<br>\n07:25<br>\nwas definitely a huge support system for<br>\n07:28<br>\nme as I maneuvered through this the<br>\n07:31<br>\ncourses at UC ER that&#8217;s amazing Josh and<br>\n07:34<br>\ncongratulations are you gonna be<br>\n07:36<br>\nstarting in the fall yes yes with LSU<br>\n07:40<br>\nexcellent that&#8217;s amazing and could you<br>\n07:45<br>\ntell me about a time when Jennifer<br>\n07:48<br>\ninfluenced your ability to overcome an<br>\n07:50<br>\nobstacle yes actually it was this<br>\n07:54<br>\nsemester it was it was probably around<br>\n07:57<br>\nJanuary where I was preparing to take<br>\n08:00<br>\nfor the GRE to get into graduate school<br>\n08:02<br>\nand so there was there were many<br>\n08:04<br>\nquestions that I didn&#8217;t understand about<br>\n08:07<br>\nthat process and because Jennifer had<br>\n08:09<br>\nwent to grad school herself she<br>\n08:11<br>\ndefinitely helped me with that she was<br>\n08:12<br>\ntelling me about how to like sign up for<br>\n08:15<br>\nthe GRE and send it to the different<br>\n08:17<br>\nschools because there were different<br>\n08:19<br>\nschools that I were had applied to and I<br>\n08:22<br>\nwas interested in and Jennifer also was<br>\n08:25<br>\nlike we talked about she was telling me<br>\n08:27<br>\nabout funding because she said that&#8217;s<br>\n08:29<br>\nimportant you can find funding ways and<br>\n08:31<br>\nso just definitely just the process of<br>\n08:35<br>\npost UCF Jennifer was very very helpful<br>\n08:37<br>\nshe sent me different links and<br>\n08:39<br>\ndifferent emails to definitely help<br>\n08:41<br>\nsupport my dreams of getting into<br>\n08:45<br>\ngraduate school so I&#8217;m very grateful for<br>\n08:47<br>\nher for that hmm it&#8217;s not like she was a<br>\n08:49<br>\nbig support system throughout your<br>\n08:52<br>\nexperience here ECF and now applying to<br>\n08:55<br>\ngrad school so that&#8217;s amazing<br>\n08:58<br>\nhow would you feel that coaching has<br>\n09:02<br>\nimpacted your personal or professional<br>\n09:03<br>\ndevelopment has it helped you to adapt<br>\n09:07<br>\nyour style in any way as a student yes I<br>\n09:12<br>\nthink it&#8217;s helped me adapt because<br>\n09:16<br>\nJennifer she she was a form of a mentor<br>\n09:20<br>\nin a way because like like we discussed<br>\n09:24<br>\nif I had any questions or if I just<br>\n09:27<br>\ndidn&#8217;t understand maybe even not about<br>\n09:29<br>\ngrad school but just about my current<br>\n09:32<br>\ncourses that I was taking Jennifer<br>\n09:34<br>\ndefinitely went above and beyond to help<br>\n09:36<br>\nme<br>\n09:37<br>\nshe was just constantly sending me<br>\n09:38<br>\nemails or you know calling just to make<br>\n09:41<br>\nsure that I understood anything and<br>\n09:44<br>\nJennifer always asked she&#8217;s like do you<br>\n09:46<br>\nhave any questions or is there anything<br>\n09:48<br>\nI can help clear up for you and that was<br>\n09:50<br>\ndefinitely a big relief because<br>\n09:52<br>\nsometimes we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on<br>\n09:55<br>\nor we don&#8217;t understand especially if<br>\n09:57<br>\nyou&#8217;re transitioning into the online<br>\n09:59<br>\nsystem for the first time and so she<br>\n10:01<br>\ndefinitely the transition very easy or<br>\n10:04<br>\neasy for me and yeah it definitely<br>\n10:08<br>\nchanged the way that I look at online<br>\n10:10<br>\ncourses exile well thank you so much for<br>\n10:13<br>\nsharing that thank you so much for<br>\n10:15<br>\njoining me in this conversation today<br>\n10:17<br>\nand for being a part of UCF and for<br>\n10:21<br>\nrepresenting UCF online so well thank<br>\n10:25<br>\nyou thank you so much\n      <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"ucf-post-list ucf-post-list-thumbnail\" id=\"post-list-10087\">\n\t\t\t<div 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