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Are Pheromones for Real?

After reading an article that stated that love has to do with pheromones, Team Lovely went to work to find out if this was so and found out some other facts concerning love as well. Alanna Reyes, Ralph Kevin Gomez and Ashleigh Richelle did some research as well as interviewed fellow SMASH scholars and Residential Assistants in order to a gain a wide perspective on a little thing called love.

activities_podcast

Our podcast was concerning the mandated activities at the SMASH academy. For our podcast, we interviewed 3 SMASH scholars and one SMASH RA. The scholars that we interviewed were Jessica Sodhi, Joseph De La Riva, Fynoolah O’Reily. The SMASH RA that we interviewed was Lorin Jackson. We asked them a variety of questions involving SMASH activities. They each gave us varying answers, and each of them had different opinions on the activities. Based on their responses, we concluded that the SMASH activities bring SMASH scholars closer as a family.

The way in which my podcast is different from my group members is basically the songs that I chose. The song’s that i chose were “Move Along” by The All American Rejects, and “Everything’s Magic” by Angeles and Airwaves (AVA). The reason I chose these songs was because they are very upbeat songs which went great with our topic because activities are meant to be fun. I also chose to vary the people who were answering questions so it wouldn’t become too boring in such a short amount of time.

-posted by anthony first, not jorge

no-names1

Our podcast is about the activities that SMASH students are required to participate in. Our purpose was to see how different participants feel about this matter. We interviewed a first year named Fionnugula O’Riley, a second year named Jessica Sodhi, a third year named Joseph Del La Riva, and a RA named Lauren Jackson. The students had different opinions about the activities than the RA; however, they all felt that the activities bonded the SMASH community.

Unlike the rest of mine group members, I had introduced the podcast with “Sandstorm” (techno music). I had made sure that all of the interviewees were heard at least once. While the interviewees were speaking “Black and Gold” was playing in the background. Not all of the interviewees’ replies were posted, only the statements that I had selected were set in the podcast. Lastly, to end the podcast, I replayed “Sandstorm.”

I. Intro

• SMASH intro
• “We’re here to talk about how SMASH students feel about having activities forced upon them. A typical day during our SMASH summer session consists of waking up, going to breakfast, going to class, going to lunch, going back to class, having a meeting, going to dinner, and finally tutorial. Unfortunately to add on to our busy schedules, it is required for us to participate in mandatory group activities. After having a full day of classes, many of us would like to go back to our dorms and rest, or just finish up some left over homework. We feel that these mandated activities take much of our free time away, which we could be using to do something else. We interviewed other SMASH scholars to see what they thought about these activities.

II. Interviews

• Questions to come later.

III. Conclusion

• After having done all our interviews….(conclusion will be posted after interviews). But in the end we still believe that these activities should not be mandatory, but rather voluntary.