 Who's your best friend on campus? Oh, wow. Anyone who wants popcorn, number one. It's my big debut. Are you just in here for the free popcorn? No, I'm here for this bomb ass interview. The story of how somebody got punched in your car. Follow us on TikTok or Instagram at RIT underscore SG. I found the RIT student government office and a whole bunch of people were just hanging out in there and they all had this look on their face of like, you can come in here if you want. So I did and it was awesome. It does smell so good. You can have some more. I can have a little bit, just like a little, like a, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Would anybody be up to like talk to me for a couple of minutes or? Yes. I didn't even finish my sentence. I love it. It's my big debut. Yeah, make you famous. What's your name? My name's Morgan Rosenberg. All right, Morgan. What do you do here at RIT? I do a lot of stuff. I'm in the School of Individualized Study. Best program here, by the way. Stop it, Chris. What? So the School of Individualized Study, people. Sorry, he's laughing at me. That's good, yeah, that's good. Get out of here. Hi, Chris. Hi, Chris. Oh, the School of Individualized Study is a program here where kids can kind of make their own major. So I'll use myself as an example. You know, I was super interested in journalism, but I knew I didn't want to write about news. So I came to SOYCE and I decided to do pop culture journalism. I'd like to be a film critic or something like that. So that's what I'm a part of here. And I'm in the student government as the senator for that school. We have a senator for each of the colleges, as well as representative student organizations, president members, and committee chairs. And we all basically work together to spread the students' needs to faculty and staff and the president, the provost, all that special stuff. Hi, I'm Chris Fry. I'm a fourth year marketing and political science double major here at RIT. So that doesn't seem to me like the typical major of RIT. So why would you come to RIT for that? And what do you like about your program here? So I originally wanted to do marketing as a career. I started liking it a little bit when I did a club in high school. And then I started getting into the political scene. So marketing is kind of my backup corporate degree if the political science stuff doesn't work out. But RIT is a great combination with a lot of the technology. So I currently work over in the Office of Government and Community Relations, which is definitely exposing me to politics and the connection between higher education. And you make a lot of good connections over there. Who's your best friend on campus? Oh, wow. I'm going to hurt people's feelings if I end that. Do you want to pass on that? No. I'll give you my top three. One of them is actually outside. He's Dylan is my roommate. And then my other one is Matt. And then my other best friend would be Cassie Arusion, who's the first friend I ever had here on campus. My sister actually introduced us. I know they're probably making faces because it's like sweet. They totally are. They totally are. I've made so many friends here. Obviously SG has definitely been a part of that. So one time I was out at this place on a Friday night. Now in Rochester, don't go out to the city on Friday nights. Bad idea. I'm out. I got picked up in this car. I go in the trunk because I'm going to be riding in the trunk that night as some college students do. How do you decide who gets to ride in the trunk? Oh. It's whoever volunteers. If nobody volunteers, that is my responsibility. And also, I just hear this wild crazy yelling about how somebody got punched in the front seat. I'm like, yo, what's going on? Hi. My name is Samantha Gensler. I study interior design. I'm also the student government vice president this year. We get the engineers, the art majors to try and create projects that'll hopefully better the environments that we have. I'm actually a senior right now working on my capstone project. And mine is currently on the design impacts on patient outlook in long-term post-operative hospital units. Any advice for new students coming onto campus? Okay. My advice for new students is definitely put yourself out there in situations you wouldn't expect to be in. But putting yourself out there and doing those activities that you aren't really sure of can definitely help change your entire experience here. Anyway, and Olson and I just see this guy get out and he's like bleeding. I don't think we got to the point of why the kid got punched. Apparently he smiled at a guy the wrong way. He was just like, the kid smiled at him, the window was down, and then the person was like on the sidewalk and he was like, why are you looking at me funny and it came up and punched him. Dan Talbot. I'm a fourth year mechanical engineering technology major. I'm also in student government as the housing and dining chair. Everything from your regular dining halls on campus, like graces or dining commons or brick city rits, to more specialized food options like salseritas which serves Mexican food, Proving Chicken in here. Looks like the biggest issue that you're trying to solve right now. Accessibility for our deaf students. A lot of our dining areas have areas of improvement for accessibility. So I'm going to be working with our cross registered senator and our future anti-d senator to explore options so that all the staff that we have at our dining facilities are trained in at least some form of ASL. He drives away like one block around the corner, right? That's the thing that I still don't get is why we only drove one block and created like no distance. It makes no sense. He came from a different school. He had to go to the ER and then drive back all the way to Niagara from here which is like an hour and a half that night. Chris Brown Loyal was playing at the time. Every time we hear that song, we pour out a little bit of stuff just in honor of our boy Dustin who got punched to that song. That's one of the crazier things that has happened. Dude, your car is a dangerous place but people getting punched, people getting taken to D.P. Doe. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Tell us what's up Jake. I'm Jake Long. I'm a senator for the College of Engineering Technology. So what do you like about your programs in particular? The labs that we do from like surveying and learning how to make concrete and like what goes into it, I love it all. So how did you choose RIT in the first place? I like to say I was kind of forced into it. My aunt works here and I've always gotten like RIT merged since I was a kid so I've always kind of been like pushed that way and it just so happens that RIT is a really good school first of engineering. Anything else you want to share? RIT is probably one of the nicest college campuses, like people-wise. Like I was out walking one day at night time and these guys had a telescope and they were looking at Saturn and I'm like, oh, what are you guys looking at? We just had a whole conversation about looking at the stars and such. Thanks a lot Jake. Thank you. If you are cool, you go to Insomnia. D.P. Doe is not a good place. D.P. Doe is a bad place. What? Boo! Zellig, we know what they are. We know what they are. Can I, like, rebute that on camera? Yeah, so of course. Here's the thing. Here. Yeah. Wait, what is this? Okay. D.P. Doe is much better. They got cookies at D.P. Doe, first of all. They got ice cream. They got breadsticks. They got, what are they called, cannolis? I eat there four times a week and I'm broke because of D.P. Doe's, because I love it so much. Here's the deal though. You are out at night. 2 AM or something. You are hungry. However, do you want a snack or do you want a full meal? I don't want a full meal at 2 AM. Time out, time out. D.P. Doe has a much longer line and you get cookies and ice cream. Oh, my brother, my brother in Christ. You get in and out. You get in and out. You got to preemptively cure the hangover. You see what I'm saying, young bull? No, on top of that. Drink water. You're complaining about the line. You're complaining about the line. But to me, that's the experience. It's dinner with a show, okay? You've got some beautiful, classy clientele at D.P. Doe at 2 AM. Trust me. It's great. Every time you go. Director of marketing. Director of marketing for the student government. Yes, I am. Okay. Well, yeah, then we're practically cousins. Yeah, so go ahead and introduce yourself. Yeah. My name is Zella Goodman Hoffman. I am a third year visual media photography major. I also am double minoring in marketing and political science, and I am the director of marketing for student government here on campus. So I have a videographer, a photographer, graphic designer, and then a social media content creator and manager. And so we basically just make content. People can make design requests for certain things they have going on. We do fun videos, we make TikToks, Reels. Follow us on TikTok or Instagram at RIT underscore SG, sort of just making fun content to show that we're students, too, and that we can have a good time and just sort of want to relate to the student body. What's been your most successful TikTok for student government? So we actually just made our first TikTok yesterday. Oh, okay. That's the one, then. In terms of Reels, though, we had a reel of our president, Aditya, doing a bottle flip onto my hat, and that got like 10,000 views. So that was pretty good. By far the most viewed video on the page. That's more than any of mine. My name's Aditya or Ady. I'm a fourth year computer science student here. This is my final year. I can't believe it. And I'm this year's student government president. We're so really excited. What are the big plans for the student government this year? Yeah, so alongside my vice president, Sam, we ran under a five pillar platform centered around accessibility, activities, mental health support, a connected student body, and career and professional services. What's like the balance between like, say, coursework and, you know, actual studies and then these kinds of other things that you do on the side? Yeah. I would say the average person, like, is able to manage it really, really well with, you know, like on average, like a 14 to 15 credit course load with being involved in a few activities on campus. I took some classes over the summer to lighten the load up a little bit because I just want to be a little more involved in the organization this year. Who do you think would be a good fit for, like, student government? If somebody wanted to come in here and join you guys? Anyone who wants popcorn, number one. That's how I got in here. If you like popcorn, that's number one. Really, the other two criteria are if you are an advocate and want to be an advocate for anyone, whether that's, you know, your specific constituency or the school as a whole, right? There's roles for you and for everyone. And the other one is just passion. You need to be passionate about being a student and the student experience at the school without passion. It's not worth it. Thank you so much. Is there any way you want to plug how people can get in touch with you guys? Yeah, absolutely. If you're interested in... If you're good at RIT, number one, fill out a pop print. And if you don't get RIT, follow us on Instagram at RIT underscore SG. And we have a phone number. We have a phone. We have a phone number. Slide it to the DM. If you don't get RIT, please don't call us. Thank you. I think we can leave it right there. That's beautiful, guys.