So to me advice around being successful, especially here at a university campus, would be things like: being curious, going outside your comfort zone, trying to find for yourself a balance where you can actually be successful at all the aspects of your situation. So your situation as a student is very different than the situation of let's say somebody who has to work full time and come to school. Your situation is such that your job is actually to be a successful student, and if you want to think about it in the bigger picture. So to be a successful student, one has to learn skills of reading, writing, critical thinking, presentation skills, skills that involve interpersonal skills, how to get along with people. And here at the university, those opportunities are there, but it's you who have to take initiative to actually collect those, let's say you have a knapsack, you got to collect those in your knapsack as you go along. So it's not all going to happen the first year, it's going to happen over the process of four years. And in those four years, if you can get your knapsack really heavy like this sucker is, full of those skills, because you've intentionally gone out there and tried to fill up your knapsack --- and that to me is the kind of advice that I would suggest for you to understand. So right now your knapsack is pretty light, right. So you are just kind of throwing it around, you're kind of find out how to put things in there; well, try to figure out ways in which you can actually intentionally go after some of these skills. So take hard classes, take situations that you normally wouldn't have participated and done, try them out. Expand your imagination of what you can do and can't do. So don't only think, “I can only do this.” Student: Only see so much. Dwaine: Sorry? Student: Yeah, when you do that, you can only see so much. Dwaine: Yeah you can only see so much and you actually have a limited experience here at a place where there are endless possibilities of occupations. So, think about all the people that are around you, so let's say there are twenty-eight thousand students around you, right, of those twenty-eight thousand, each one of those twenty-eight thousand is gonna have a unique experience here and it's going to be dependent upon, who, what Karl wants to do. Student: Right Dwaine: Right, so if Karl wants to be the guy who gets involved, and I'm just going to put these out there, with some kind of club sport, and he wants to get involved with some sort of group that's going to eventually do study abroad, and he wants to get involved with doing something with regards to community activity, he wants to get involved in his major. All those are possible, but Karl's got to figure out how to, you know, be in, with the balance so he can do all those things. So, it involves really thinking it through and intentionally figuring out for Karl what you can do and can't do. Student:  As a professor, what, are there any tips or anything that you think would make it easier to come see a professor or ask questions during class or come visit during office hours? Dwaine: Yeah. What. Some of the tips are: actually go. I'll tell you right now like today I had an office hour, no one showed up. Had an office hour Tuesday, Monday, no one showed up. So what I'm getting at is we're there, I'm there, I'm actually sitting there in my office and it may seem easy right now in terms of school. When I say “easy” - you're only in your first two chapters right, so they were pretty clear what would I have to go and see the professor about, this is all pretty straightforward to me, I'll just read it and I'll regurgitate it on the test. Well there's beyond that, there's developing relationships. Such that, for example, Karl decides later on in this year that he wants to go and study abroad. Well that's great, but then Karl needs a letter of recommendation from a professor that are actually on this campus to say, “I know Karl, Karl seems like a very again balanced kind of guy, he has a certain personality, he's outgoing etcetera etcetera.” I could put that in the letter and actually write it if Karl had come during those times when it seems like there is nothing better to do and he came just to make a connection with me. Right, and talked about a concept that I discussed in the lecture, so I discussed the concept of oh I don't know, Oedipus complex in psychology right. So I discussed Oedipus, or I discussed the id, ego, and superego, right. Okay, so I discuss that and Karl shows up in my office and says, “Hey you know what I kind of don't understand that concept could you give me a little bit more, what, how could we apply that to today?” That then gives me the opportunity to talk Karl about that theory which I talked about, but it also gives Karl an opportunity to make a connection with me. And so the next time I see Karl, because now he actually sits down near the front, right, he sits right in front of me, the lecture is going on and he is actually sitting there, I have a friendly face to actually look at. Believe me, we are actually afraid when we are standing there up in front of two hundred students you know lecturing believe it or not. we're, we're, we may some of us may not look like we are afraid, but we are. Coming back to that whole idea of where I said you are always worried of falling. Yeah, I'm worried about stumbling, I'm worried about not having the right things to say, I'm worried about looking like I'm professional. Every professor goes through this. So by having people within their class who they become acquaintances with, not friends but acquaintances, you know, then that makes it a lot easier when you want something from me: letters of recommendation, advice, doing research with me, those all become much easier for me to entertain those if I’ve seen Karl before. And I've seen Karl all the way through. So I'm just putting that out there, I'm not blaming, but I'm saying to you that is something that you may have done once already because that is one of the things we encourage students to do, but continue to build the relationship. Don't think that I'm just building the relationships I want, it's got to be over time. Consistency. And then take another course with me, in other words, “Hey, I like the way professor Plaza actually teaches, I'm going to look up what he's teaching two terms from now and I'm going to try and be in that class because I kind of like the way his style is.” Student: And so, is there anything you could emphasize in terms of networking and you know making your circle expand? Dwaine: Yeah, well to me as young people like yourselves, I don't think you necessarily have to worry about the networking part yet, you know, you're only in your first year. Probably when you are in your second or third year, to be thinking about networking in the context of doing internships and because if you are networking around students really, I mean there is not much that the student, a fellow student can actually do for you in terms of the network. Focus more now on, in my opinion, the grades, finding a balance, feeling a sense of belonging here, like in other words, find a niche of people to actually connect with, and figure out ways to be successful in your first year. As you get into your second and third year, then you can start thinking about, “oh boy I'm going to be graduating in two years or year and a half or so, now I need to really start on the networking stuff that will really help me out, finding a job, doing things that are also important to me.”  Focus on the other stuff for now.