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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. Thank you so much for joining me on this edition of the program.
On today's episode, we'll welcome Eddie Chavez. Eddie is the W.D. Music Director of the Student Run Radio Station WXAV88.3 FM Chicago. Eddie, welcome to the program.
Hi, glad to be here. Can you tell me a little bit about what your experience has been like so far? Here at SxU, I've had a great experience. I have been in, I've been able to get involved with so many different kinds of activities here on campus.
And not only that, on the academic side, I've been able to grow so much as a student. And I think that'll personally help me when I want to be a teacher and foster that same growth in my own students. So you're right now, what type of education major are you? I'm in middle school education with an emphasis on reading, writing, and social science.
Oh, fantastic. So you mentioned too earlier that you're involved with a lot of different organizations here on campus. So outside of WXAV, what else do you do here at SxU? I've recently been able to get involved with RHA, which is a program for the student government type thing for residents here on campus.
Oh, fantastic. Well, we're going to put a pin on that first second and talk a little bit about that in a few moments. But has your time here at SxU? Has it met your expectations?
You're currently a junior now, correct? What has met your expectations? Sangh Diver has met a bunch of my expectations. Coming in here, I've wanted to be able to get involved with a bunch of different RSOs around here on campus.
I've been able to meet a bunch of different new people and really connect with what they have to offer here on campus. Has anything surprised you about college? I think nothing has surprised me too much. I think the only thing that maybe has surprised me a little bit is how willing professors are here to help you.
Any sort of problem that you might have or any sort of questions that you might come up with. So that one-on-one professor experience, would you say that's helped you be successful here then as a student? I would think so incredibly to help me a lot because not only do I have some professors looking out for me, it's nice to be able to walk down the hallway and see like two or three different people that you know that will just say hi to you walking down in who are in a way looking out for you. Now you mentioned earlier that you're a resident student here on campus and you're becoming an active participant in RHA, the Resident Housing Association.
What has your experience been like living here on campus? My experience has been great. I've lived here since I was a freshman and being a resident they have so many different little activities for you to do. I see a bunch of different RAs really wanting to get to know who's living on their floor and really really to help out anybody.
That's good. Now do you have any advice for anyone out there that's considering becoming a residential student? I say do it. You know if you can do it for a year you might learn that it might be really beneficial to you being on campus and having those that extra time and all these resources here at school available to you whenever you want.
How has St. Xavier changed you as a person? I think St. Xavier has made me much more open to different ideas.
Coming in I would always want to do things my way in a bit. I would want to you know more stuff along those lines. Okay so it's kind of made you open to others then? Yeah and different ideas you know professors have different ways of tackling problems.
Professors have different ways of really trying to connect to you. So I feel like since coming to St. Xavier I've been able to really get a taste for that and really bring that into my own way. I'm speaking right now with Eddie Chavez a junior education major here at St.
Xavier University. Thank you for joining me today. Eddie a final question I got for you and that is what advice do you have to any potential St. Xavier student that's thinking about coming to St.
Xavier? St. Xavier is really looking out for their students and if you come here you're going to definitely be able to find your own place here at St. Xavier whether it be with your own club with majors with sports or the campus life that you live whether it be on campus as a resident or as a commuter.
Eddie thank you so much for joining us. Absolutely. Hi I'm Eddie Chavez and I'm part of the class of 2019. Thank you very much for listening to this WXAV 88.3 FM podcast.
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