-: I think it was range of opportunity.
You were given the freedom to do whatever you wanted to do.
If you wanted to go join whatever organization,
association, you could do it.
I always felt there was a good balance between the academic,
making sure that you're getting your getting your work done,
making sure that you're taking the classes you need to take
to matriculate, but I feel like Oswego, in particular,
was very supportive of the extracurricular activities.
And I can say that, having been in
two higher education environments,
one where that was not necessarily the case.
There wasn't as much entrepreneurism
encouraged at the other institution.
It was a very glaring difference.
I was used to an environment where we were given
wide latitude to basically do whatever we felt like doing,
and really pushing ourselves, and pushing others,
and trying to grow that way, versus
being more constricted and having more requirements
put around you and limitations put on you.
I think Oswego's always done very well by its students
in allowing them to try as many things as they want to try,
and you know what, recognizing that sometimes you're not
gonna get it right, and that's okay too,
and not freaking over it.
I think, compared to my other experience,
there was too much fear of failure,
there was too much fear of what happens if.
Well, there's also an upside there,
and you have to be able to embrace the upside
as well as the downside and say,
"Okay, well, as long as we understand what's in it
"for everybody and how things might go off the rails,
"let's go for it, let's try it."
I think that's what I took away the most,
is I had so many opportunities
to do so many different things within the university
and not feel like there was ever a time
where I was told I couldn't do something.