 Master is doing their orientation week activities so there are tons of people from all these different like jumpsuit groups. I got to figure out what these colors mean and then I'm gonna talk to these people and get to know a little bit more about the university through these student interviews. So what's your name? Yeah my name's Ali and I'm in my fourth year of mechanical and biomedical engineering and as you can see I'm a red suit. Is that what this red suit thing is all about? So essentially how it works is that these first years they're coming to university for the first time and they're all nervous or anxious and they're trying to meet new people and we're just here to help them make that transition and make new friends. Awesome were they doing this when you first came here? Yes and that is a big reason for why I'm doing this right now is because I saw the impact that red suits had on me and how much I enjoyed my welcoming because of them and I really wanted to get back. Thank you Ali I really appreciate that. No thank you for talking to me and yeah go get some more people to talk to man. I appreciate what you do. No thank you. I am Maddie, I use she her pronouns and I am in my third year of chemical engineering and society at McMaster. What do you like about your chemical engineering program here? Chemical engineering has a really great community and there's also a really good ratio of women to men which I think is like a really positive thing especially in engineering which is typically a more male-dominated field. My name is Anna and I use she her pronouns and I'm in my third year of electrical engineering and society at McMaster. Alright engineering and society? Yeah. How does society play in there? What's that about? Yeah so that's kind of like an add-on program that you can incorporate to your degree. Maddie and Kenzie here are also in society as well and the point of society is just to help make us more well-rounded engineers and it kind of helps us look at how can we really analyze the ways that we use engineering principles to improve our world and how can we make technology more sustainable and long-lasting. Electrical engineering has been a blast. I came into university not knowing how to code but now I do it every day and I love it so it's a really great time. Right from first year you get to work on design projects with other students in your program and engineering which is really unique to McMaster. Not a lot of other schools have such hands-on experience right from first year working with people in the community to work on different projects and that's been really great so far. Hey you guys at Blue Pants? Yes. Awesome. Want to tell me your name first? Alissa Henry. Cool. And I'm part of Blue Crew. So the reason why our pants are blue is because well sock size blue here that's our faculty color so I study human behavior with an autism and behavioral science specialization so it's a really cool program it's a dual degree with Mohawk and McMaster so you get college diploma and university degree in four years and co-op is included in that so that's pretty cool especially like with kids that have autism that's like my main focus is study right now so it's pretty cool. I became a teacher and I could never work with young kids so I just want you to know you're doing the Lord's work like we need you so much thank you so much for what you do thanks Alissa appreciate you taking a minute out of your day. Have a good day. Alright you too. How come you guys have white suits? What's the white for? What's for health sciences? Health sciences? Okay awesome because I've talked to the red and then I talked to blue I'm trying to figure out what all the colors are for. Yeah yeah my name is Donnie I'm going to my third year of the Bachelor of Health Sciences program at McMaster University I love it I honestly feel so privileged to be here. Yeah what do you like about the program? I think if I had to boil it down to one thing it definitely is the people here I mean this is a place of full support and it's not just your friends but it's the faculty it's the people all around the university it makes you feel like you belong here and they support you no matter what decision you take and you know it's okay to make mistakes here and when you do there's always the best ways possible to handle it and to help you move forward. It really prepares you to work in the real world and also how to understand yourself who do I want to be and what impact I want to make so that many years from now because of those lessons that you learn here you are able to feel a sense of really happiness and you know content me with what you've done in life and what you've been able to achieve for this world and for yourself. Awesome buddy thanks so much man. I can ask you anything? Yeah that is a dangerous thing to hold up actually right now. What's going on with these pants? So we have the green pants because we're both commerce reps. Okay. My name is Maddie I'm going into my fifth year of the commerce faculty undeclared with a minor in sustainability. All right my name's Thomas. Oh I'm getting a phone call. My name's Thomas I'm going into my fourth year of the business and humanities program somewhat of a similar perspective I guess you'll get but all right cool what do you guys like about the business school? I think what I like most about the business school is the professors I've had nothing but positive experiences every single year that I've been here the professors are amazing I think what really makes Mac stand out is how the professors really care about you they want you to succeed they want you to do well and they want to develop that interpersonal relationship with you as well. Yeah I mean adding on to that I'd say the community as a whole one of the reasons that I chose to DeGroote over other places was because of the size of the faculty I know that with all of the events especially during welcome week everyone has been super welcoming and through my experiences through the DeGroote clubs so far I've been able to meet a lot of people a lot of my closest friends thus far have been met through clubs through people just coming up to ask if I need any help or I want to study together things like that so having a sort of community environment a small campus has really helped to kind of foster that empowering community together. Okay nice yeah you say a small campus but there's like a ton of people here so at the same time like I think it says a lot though right that you feel like it's kind of a smaller vibe. It's true like I was just saying to Thomas that there was a student that I met on the first day of moving and I have ran into them every single day since and it's been crazy because it is a big campus and every time I see them I'm always like oh hey see you tomorrow I guess so no it's great. Yeah that's pretty cool I like that. You got a favorite professor? One that you want to give a shout out to, just one that you happen to like, we don't have to call it favorite. I can edit that. I can start. I would have to give a shout out to Dr. Muhammad he teaches first-year accounting he's always open for questions anything that I've had to ask him accounting related or not he's spent hours with me in his office talking chatting consoling me all the good stuff. I will give a shout out to Dr. Teal McAteer she's the first-year organizational behavior professor she is phenomenal every single day eight in the morning she has so much energy she's a professor who truly cares about the growth of their students she's amazing. Thanks so much for your help and thanks for what you're doing here helping people out you know I think it's really awesome. Thank you. Hello my name is Taryn I'm going into fourth-year integrated science in the physics concentration. Okay wow you're doing the hard stuff. How demanding is that? You know it's a little demanding there are quite a few courses it's definitely manageable but it is a heavy workload you need to learn how to manage your time very efficiently to get through it. Where do you want to go next with that? For me I'm looking ahead to more grad school more school in the future I really love research so far all the labs that I've had to experience have been amazing and so I'm hoping to pursue something adjacent to research astrobiology biophysics something in that field I mean having your name out there is like real published work. I want to see my name in parenthesis when I read something you know totally so is that one of the reasons you chose McMaster? Yeah McMaster's research is incredible I mean for me ISI was my top choice for a program just because it's so unique so small so interdisciplinary and then just all the research opportunities that you can get like right out of first year all the different clubs the different groups like there was kind of no competition once I was in. Do you have any advice for maybe potential applicants or people going into that program? The sciences in general? Worry about what doing what you love. Do things that are fun even though school is really busy and stressful all the time you don't need to stay up until three in the morning every night to get things done you need to have a good balance. Thank you so much for your time. No problem thank you. Have a good day. What's with the lavender pink? This is entering a color that I'm not so sure about as a guy. Yes you can totally do that that seems like a very reasonable thing to do so. So my name is Maya I study arts and science here and I'm in my fourth year and I'm Phoebe and I'm also an arts and science fourth year. Alright cool so can you tell me a little bit more about these suits here what am I looking at? Absolutely so these are our jumpsuits they mark us out as reps for arts and science that's our color here and then we just paint whatever our interests are stuff we believe in so the first years can maybe like pick out something that they also know and they know they can come and chat with us about it because that's something that we like. Exactly yeah so I'll just give you an example I'm really into photography so I have a camera here and then I've got a pride flag on the back of my suit. Yeah cool anything you want to show off? Yeah sure why not. These are from some video games that I'm a big fan of. That looks like Zelda to me is that yep yep okay I see Zelda references I know what you're doing here. Yeah I'm on my triforce my sister has that tattooed on her arm. Oh my god yeah. What do you like about your program? Basically we study half you know science is math and then half social sciences history philosophy stuff like that and it's just amazing because it's interdisciplinary it's also small it's a program and a degree that offers you a lot of freedom in your course choices sounds awesome I love it. Do you have any advice for maybe some new students since I know that's kind of the theme of the week here? Yes yeah you know immerse yourself in the university experience and try to get everything out of it that you can once the school year starts more go to your prof's office hours like get your money's worth essentially if you're tuition go talk to them they are more than happy to talk to you for a long time as long as they have that time. Awesome well thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me I really appreciate it means a lot to me. In all of these interviews everybody keeps talking about community community community and I see why because people here really genuinely seem to care about each other and you don't see that same level of like tight integration at every campus so I really like that about McMaster I think that you're gonna feel welcome here you're gonna have a great time at this university so you should definitely check it out so if you're interested in McMaster you can hit us up with preposcore.com to learn more about how we can help you apply you can go to their website McMaster.ca or you know you can reach out to students here because they are all super eager to help you out so thank you guys all you people who helping out with the interviews thank you guys for watching I'll see you next week