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This podcast is being brought to you by WXAV88.3 FM and WXAV.com. WXAV, bringing the best podcast to you. Hi, this is Peter Creighton, host of the SXU Student Profile Series. And I'm happy to welcome Mr.
Cesar Torres to this edition of the program. Cesar is the current deputy editor-in-chief of the Xavierite Student Newspaper and a current honor DJ at WXAV88.3 FM Chicago. Cesar, welcome. Hey, thank you.
Thank you for having me, Pete. So Cesar, can you kind of share with us what your experience has been like best far here at Cesar? Well, it's, you know, I came here knowing kind of what I wanted to do. As you were aware, I was part of the WXAV summer camps leading up to me coming here.
So whereas, you know, you have some students who don't really know what they're doing. I kind of had a grasp of what I wanted to do. And that makes that, that makes things a little easier for me. I've been, you know, coasting, going through classes and spending my time here, a lot here at the Xavierite and here at WXAV.
I kind of like to consider this building to be your second home. I would say that. Yeah, it is my second home. Yeah.
So I mean, you came in, you participated in the Student Media Summer Camp twice. Twice. If I remember correctly, and that kind of sealed the deal that you wanted to get into broadcasting. Can you kind of share what your experience has been like saying, okay, I have my major, it's declared, now it's time to actually study it.
So what has that experience been like? You know, I actually didn't declare my communication major until last summer, my freshman year, but it's been, the classes have been very fun, very easy. Even before I became a major, I was a minor. I had fun in speech, learning about communications with people, communication with people.
And I'm looking forward to my future classes. Like, I am, it's my bucket list, not a bucket list. Okay, same, Xavier bucket list to have you as a teacher for my production. Well, thank you.
Well, we're a podcast. We're actually having a podcast in class this spring, spring of 18, since Avery has a course in podcasting. I'll be there. Excellent.
And I will see you there. Has anything surprised you about college, any of the experiences that you've gone through thus far? I have been surprised at how kind of similar it is to high school, at least in my experience. The class, there's some classes where it was hard, but there's some classes where I realized this is kind of like high school.
Another thing that has surprised me are the people. I made great connections here already. It's been my second year. I made great connections.
I've also had some pickups, but I've had friends here who have helped me through those pickups and helped me through a lot of challenges, challenges, pain. Yes. So I'm very thankful for my friends and the people I've met here. Now, I kind of want to piggyback off of that for a second, because you're a commuter student.
You don't reside here and everything. And I think that's been kind of like a common fear that commuter students have expressed at times as well. I'm a computer. I'm not staying here on campus.
I'm going to have a difficult time finding friends. Whereas with you, it seems like you had no problem at all finding who your friends are. Right. I would like to thank WXV for making me a little outgoing, more talkative.
But before that, I had a friend who actually approached me and just started talking to me. And he just became my friend. And thanks to him, I was introduced to my now very close group of friends that are very close to me. How you kind of briefly mentioned this, but I wonder if you could go into a little bit more detail.
How has things have changed you as a person? That's a very difficult question to answer, because I feel like I'm not done changing yet. I feel like I have changed in some aspects from high school, but it's not complete yet. Or at least I feel that it's not complete yet.
I was very introverted when I came here, but I'd like to think that I become a little more extroverted, a little more talkative, a little more, I guess, I don't know, myself. I feel like I'm finding myself. That's good. And that's a positive thing, because that's ultimately what you want college to be, is you're finding yourself.
And I think something that you said that I'm really impressed with hearing is it's like you're continuously evolving. You're not settling. You want to keep becoming a better person and everything. Well, you know me, I like change.
And without change, things are just kind of boring. You want to be yourself or like become a better version of yourself. And I think college has helped me. It hasn't helped me completely yet, but it's helping me so far.
So final question I have for you, Caesar, and I just want to thank you for joining me on the SxU Student Profile Series. What advice would you give to any potential St. Xavier student? Someone who they're senior in high school, they're a junior in high school, they're doing the college applications and they're looking at St.
Xavier. What advice would you give them? Join student media. Well, that is part, I mean, if you're interested of course, join student media.
But my advice would be, especially if you have no idea what you want to do, what you want to major in, take it easy. Take, you know, first second semester your first year and just see the options that are in front of you. And then from there, you can decide your next step. That's my advice to future students.
That's fantastic advice. Caesar, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me, Pete. Hi, I'm Caesar Torres and I'm a part of the class of 2020.
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