Sarah Chapman, SEMO’s student representative to the Board of Governors, bridges both campuses while double majoring in English and Music, sharing insights on leadership, time management, and campus community.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to this episode up a row on the air.
I'm your host, Elotonsley, and joining me in the studio
today is the ever busy Sarah Chapman. Sarah, if you
don't mind go ahead and introduce yourself for us.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, absolutely so. My name is Sarah Chapman. I'm a
double major in English and music with a minor in
jazz and commercial music. And I guess today we're just
here to chat about student governor stuff, any other student
involvements or whatever. The wonderful elaton Ley asks of me, Well,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I don't think i've ever heard your full major out loud,
like it's a lot degree path. You are so busy,
I do it.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I can. So.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, let's start with that student representative for the Board
of Governors. That must be such an honor.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It absolutely is. It's extremely humbling. I didn't think I
was gonna be the one selective because there were so
many candidates that were also qualified. But just I remember
the morning that I got the call, I just like,
first thing I did, I was like, oh, thank you Lord,
because like what miracle. And the second thing I did,
quite honestly, was just like cry because I was just
so grateful, so humbled, and I'm just so excited for Like,
(01:08):
everybody on the board is fantastic, the president's executive staff
is wonderful. Everybody's been so welcoming and so enthusiastic, and
I'm very excited for what's to come.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So how does one find themselves in that position? Like
what led to that nomination?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I guess absolutely so the previous student representative his term expired,
so he served his full term. So then it was time,
according to our student government by laws, to start looking
at another candidate. And just so many of my friends
were thinking, like, Sarah, you were the first person I
thought of when they came up for this application, you
need to apply, And so it was just having that
support system that kind of just like pushed me through
(01:46):
and was like you can do this, you are amazing
and you deserve it and you would do wonderful. Then
they just kind of pushed me through in times that
I didn't always think that I could do it. So
I came from an extremely small town that didn't have
a lot of opportunity, and I think going into this application,
I just assumed, oh, it's going to be like some
hot shot from like Saint Louis, or something that actually
has experience with somebody.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Whose network to like exacin the business for a while.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Or someone who knows what it's like to be on
a big campus. My graduating class was like eighty six people.
I had maybe three hundred in my whole school, so
too exactly. So going from that to representing not quite
ten thousand students, grads and undergrads, it's a big jump,
and so it's a lot of pressure. But it's just
I sound like a broken record, but I just feel
(02:30):
so humbled to have been selected for this opportunity. I'm
just so grateful.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, I'm sure there's no one better to do the
job than you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, thank you. You're so sweet.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But that is something I love about the SEMO campus
in general. It's just that there's so much opportunity, and
you really you don't have to be the biggest, big
shot to get that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Definitely, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I did want to talk about how do your other
expertises kind of fall into this? How did you find music?
How does that both exceptionally demanding majors? How do you
balance it all? That's my question, h.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's a great question. I keep a planner. I know
this sounds like an advertisement or something. It's not a promise,
but I just try to keep on top of everything,
and it is a lot. It is a lot. I've
had to learn a lot about time management and staying
on top of things and what that looks like. And
that's changed a lot. It changes from semester to semester.
But it's a lot of okay, well what comes first,
(03:23):
homework okay, cool, put homework in what's next like, and
then it's just getting myself to slow down and rework
my priority list and just remind myself it's okay to
just take one day at a time. You don't have
to tack one entire month and one day. That's not realistic.
So that was a big step for me because I
just had to come to terms with that. So double
(03:44):
majoring is a lot. But I've found if you have
a rough schedule, so like I have a certain timeframe
that I keep a practice block, homework blocks, meal blocks
when I can, but yeah, you know, you know how
it goes. So just trying to keep that structure. I'm
still learning a lot every day as an adventure. Every
week is like okay, well I feel like I have
(04:06):
to not quite start over every time, but it's I
don't know, there's difference.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's like a refresh exact Monday morning hits and I'm like, Okay,
what's what's on the dock for this week exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So it's just been a big lesson on learning to
respect my time too, like time is valuable, time is precious.
How you spend it says a lot about your character too,
and so bringing in your double major both campuses, it's
actually really nice, and I feel like that is one
of the things that makes me really good candidate for
this student representative role because I have strong connections on
(04:37):
main campus and on River. So there's people talk a
lot about wanting to burst the gap between main campus
and River and maybe I could be the person that
kind of helps push that along if I can just
kind of Okay, well, let's look at what River Campus
needs and what they want, and let's look at what
Main campus needs and what they want, and like try
to find some middle ground. Because I have a unique
(04:58):
perspective that not many people get to.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Share, and I'm so glad to hear it in the
studio today. I always like to open the floor is
there anything you'd like to discuss or highlight about your
student experience.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The first thing that comes to mind is faculty. I
could not I could not do a double major if
it weren't for my faculty.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It's just I love Simo.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Professors wonderful and they're just That's one of the things
that brought me to SEMO. It's actually the main selling
point that brought me to SEMO is because I've never
been treated like a number. My faculty have always expressed
a genuine interest in like, Sarah, what are your goals?
What are your dreams? Like? That's another thing that kind
of sticks out to me. They don't ask like what
do you want to do? They ask what are your dreams,
what are your aspirations, what are you passionate about? What
(05:41):
would you do if you had nothing holding you back?
What does your.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Life look like? Exactly side of academic very much.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So, it's just the little details. They're willing to use
their expertise, and they're so eager to use their expertise,
and they're like, well, here's what I have, let me
help you. They're not toity toity about it or anything,
and it's just the fact that they're so genuine. It
means a lot, and they're just so understanding, and they're
just so open and wanting questions, they want to help,
and I think that's a very unique thing about STEM,
(06:09):
that Steamo can offer that experience to their students. So
without my faculty, I don't know if I'd still be here,
So huge kudos to them. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, we are running out of time, so thank you
so much for joining me in the studio. Thank I
know I know how hard it is to schedule things
like this.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No, it's been so much fun. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Thank you again, and thank you for listening to this
episode of Nerowair. I'm your host, Ella Tinsley, and I
will see you next time.
Welcome to this episode up a row on the air.
I'm your host, Elotonsley, and joining me in the studio
today is the ever busy Sarah Chapman. Sarah, if you
don't mind go ahead and introduce yourself for us.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, absolutely so. My name is Sarah Chapman. I'm a
double major in English and music with a minor in
jazz and commercial music. And I guess today we're just
here to chat about student governor stuff, any other student
involvements or whatever. The wonderful elaton Ley asks of me, Well,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I don't think i've ever heard your full major out loud,
like it's a lot degree path. You are so busy,
I do it.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I can. So.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, let's start with that student representative for the Board
of Governors. That must be such an honor.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It absolutely is. It's extremely humbling. I didn't think I
was gonna be the one selective because there were so
many candidates that were also qualified. But just I remember
the morning that I got the call, I just like,
first thing I did, I was like, oh, thank you Lord,
because like what miracle. And the second thing I did,
quite honestly, was just like cry because I was just
so grateful, so humbled, and I'm just so excited for Like,
(01:08):
everybody on the board is fantastic, the president's executive staff
is wonderful. Everybody's been so welcoming and so enthusiastic, and
I'm very excited for what's to come.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So how does one find themselves in that position? Like
what led to that nomination?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I guess absolutely so the previous student representative his term expired,
so he served his full term. So then it was time,
according to our student government by laws, to start looking
at another candidate. And just so many of my friends
were thinking, like, Sarah, you were the first person I
thought of when they came up for this application, you
need to apply, And so it was just having that
support system that kind of just like pushed me through
(01:46):
and was like you can do this, you are amazing
and you deserve it and you would do wonderful. Then
they just kind of pushed me through in times that
I didn't always think that I could do it. So
I came from an extremely small town that didn't have
a lot of opportunity, and I think going into this application,
I just assumed, oh, it's going to be like some
hot shot from like Saint Louis, or something that actually
has experience with somebody.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Whose network to like exacin the business for a while.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Or someone who knows what it's like to be on
a big campus. My graduating class was like eighty six people.
I had maybe three hundred in my whole school, so
too exactly. So going from that to representing not quite
ten thousand students, grads and undergrads, it's a big jump,
and so it's a lot of pressure. But it's just
I sound like a broken record, but I just feel
(02:30):
so humbled to have been selected for this opportunity. I'm
just so grateful.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, I'm sure there's no one better to do the
job than you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, thank you. You're so sweet.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But that is something I love about the SEMO campus
in general. It's just that there's so much opportunity, and
you really you don't have to be the biggest, big
shot to get that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Definitely, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I did want to talk about how do your other
expertises kind of fall into this? How did you find music?
How does that both exceptionally demanding majors? How do you
balance it all? That's my question, h.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's a great question. I keep a planner. I know
this sounds like an advertisement or something. It's not a promise,
but I just try to keep on top of everything,
and it is a lot. It is a lot. I've
had to learn a lot about time management and staying
on top of things and what that looks like. And
that's changed a lot. It changes from semester to semester.
But it's a lot of okay, well what comes first,
(03:23):
homework okay, cool, put homework in what's next like, and
then it's just getting myself to slow down and rework
my priority list and just remind myself it's okay to
just take one day at a time. You don't have
to tack one entire month and one day. That's not realistic.
So that was a big step for me because I
just had to come to terms with that. So double
(03:44):
majoring is a lot. But I've found if you have
a rough schedule, so like I have a certain timeframe
that I keep a practice block, homework blocks, meal blocks
when I can, but yeah, you know, you know how
it goes. So just trying to keep that structure. I'm
still learning a lot every day as an adventure. Every
week is like okay, well I feel like I have
(04:06):
to not quite start over every time, but it's I
don't know, there's difference.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's like a refresh exact Monday morning hits and I'm like, Okay,
what's what's on the dock for this week exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So it's just been a big lesson on learning to
respect my time too, like time is valuable, time is precious.
How you spend it says a lot about your character too,
and so bringing in your double major both campuses, it's
actually really nice, and I feel like that is one
of the things that makes me really good candidate for
this student representative role because I have strong connections on
(04:37):
main campus and on River. So there's people talk a
lot about wanting to burst the gap between main campus
and River and maybe I could be the person that
kind of helps push that along if I can just
kind of Okay, well, let's look at what River Campus
needs and what they want, and let's look at what
Main campus needs and what they want, and like try
to find some middle ground. Because I have a unique
(04:58):
perspective that not many people get to.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Share, and I'm so glad to hear it in the
studio today. I always like to open the floor is
there anything you'd like to discuss or highlight about your
student experience.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The first thing that comes to mind is faculty. I
could not I could not do a double major if
it weren't for my faculty.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It's just I love Simo.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Professors wonderful and they're just That's one of the things
that brought me to SEMO. It's actually the main selling
point that brought me to SEMO is because I've never
been treated like a number. My faculty have always expressed
a genuine interest in like, Sarah, what are your goals?
What are your dreams? Like? That's another thing that kind
of sticks out to me. They don't ask like what
do you want to do? They ask what are your dreams,
what are your aspirations, what are you passionate about? What
(05:41):
would you do if you had nothing holding you back?
What does your.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Life look like? Exactly side of academic very much.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So, it's just the little details. They're willing to use
their expertise, and they're so eager to use their expertise,
and they're like, well, here's what I have, let me
help you. They're not toity toity about it or anything,
and it's just the fact that they're so genuine. It
means a lot, and they're just so understanding, and they're
just so open and wanting questions, they want to help,
and I think that's a very unique thing about STEM,
(06:09):
that Steamo can offer that experience to their students. So
without my faculty, I don't know if I'd still be here,
So huge kudos to them. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, we are running out of time, so thank you
so much for joining me in the studio. Thank I
know I know how hard it is to schedule things
like this.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No, it's been so much fun. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Thank you again, and thank you for listening to this
episode of Nerowair. I'm your host, Ella Tinsley, and I
will see you next time.
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