>>Hey, Bobcat Nation! Do you
want to know what it's like to be
a political science major in
college? Follow me as I show you
my day in this Quinnipiac Day in
the Life.
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Hi, everyone. My name is
Ashlee Baldwin. I am a senior
political science major from
Falls Village, Connecticut. I
decided to choose political
science as my major because I was
going through my senior year of
high school during the last
presidential election, and I got
really, really interested in it.
Especially with the debate over
health care. I want to go into
health care lobbying. So today's
schedule: I have my College of
Arts and Sciences Capstone and my
journalism class on covering
voters and elections. And then
we're gonna go to pep band
rehearsal tonight.
I live in the East View
Residence Hall, which you can see
behind me, which is the only
residence hall on campus for
seniors, which means I'm
fortunate enough to be able to
take the shuttle to campus
instead of having to drive.
So the class I'm headed to now
is the College of Arts and
Sciences Capstone.
The way that the CAS
Capstones work are you get to
choose which section you want.
So I chose one religion and
social justice. Everyone in the
College of Arts and Sciences,
which includes political science,
has to take this at some point in
their senior or junior year.
We are completing projects for
the end of the year that are
basically independent research,
and I'm doing mine on the
separation of church and state,
and whether the United States has
actually adhered to that or not.
I have a break now until two
o'clock. But I have a couple of
errands to run and I need to get
lunch. And I'm probably gonna
go to the Honors Lounge and do
some work until I have to go to class.
So it's about quarter of two.
I'm going to head into this
building behind me for my
journalism class on covering
voters and elections. Today is
March 3rd. So it's Super Tuesday
so we're gonna have a lot of
work to do. Collecting
information about the different
primaries happening today,
Collecting information about the
different candidates that are
still in the running, and
building our class project, which
is a website and some social
media.
For the covering voters and
elections, like, why was that
such an important class for you
to want to teach?
>>I've been at Quinnipiac for
six years now and I've gotten the
sense that a lot of students are
curious about elections and
curious about politics, but don't
really know that much about it. I
mean, this is kind of a class
where we're doing live
journalism. And so it's a little
bit fun, is a little
experimental. It's a little bit
crazy. We came into the class
kind of reading a bunch of
stories about how the press
normally covers elections and
some of the problems with that.
So we're building an ambitious
site and social media to kind of
create a voter guide for our
students and first time voters in
the area. I'm really pumped about
it, it's gonna be great.
>>Awesome. It's been a great class so far.
So it's really exciting.
I have a little time now
between class and when my friend
gets here so that we can go to
dinner. So I'm just hanging out
in my room. You can see
Catherine, my roommate in the
background, and Gracie, my
emotional support animal right
here next to me. We live on the
very top floor of East View. We
have a nice little room, plenty
of room, two beds, two wardrobes
and two desks. And it works
fantastic for us.
Gracie is just about a month
and a half shy of being a year
old. I've had her since she was a
kitten, born in the barn on my
property at home. She's an
emotional support animal and
helps me a lot with my anxiety
and PTSD.
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So I'm here with my friend
Michelle, we came to get dinner
at the Rocky Top Student Center.
We both got pasta bakes.
Just finished dinner. So now
I'm heading down to the People's
United Center for a pep band
rehearsal.
Tonight's rehearsal is going
to be preparing for the MAAC
Basketball Championship, that is
next week.
The band and the sideline
cheer team both go to support
both of our basketball teams. So
cheer will actually be here to
practice with us later.
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OK. So I just got out of
rehearsal here at the People's
United Center. I'm gonna run
up to Rocky Top super quick and
grab some groceries. So the cafe
at Rocky Top has a cool little
section in the back that has like
some grocery stuff. I usually
come here to get bread, milk,
eggs, cheese, that sort of thing.
So I'm gonna run and grab those
things super quickly. And then
I'm headed home.
I'm back in East View. My day
is over. And I hope that this
gave you a good perspective on
what it's like to be a student at
Quinnipiac and the way that you
can balance very involved majors
with very involved organizations
and still be a successful
student.
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