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Thank you We sneak in College one Oh one community

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Let's talk about the various things you need to consider

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when deciding where to go to college Some of it

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could be the politics of that part of the country

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You might live in a really conservative area of the

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country and you think this isn't me I want to

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try something else and a lot of high schools the

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students think that they are pretty liberal or pretty conservative

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on they're actually not they think they're liberal but then

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they visited true liberal college and they think wow i

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didn't realize people could actually be this liberal and left

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leaning on the issues that i really care about and

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similarly there are a lot of students who think they're

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pretty conservative but then they visit a really conservative college

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and they think wow that is way out there So

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i think that's the important thing about getting out there

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to visit some of the colleges or at least research

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them and just find out that what you're maybe high

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school's smaller slice of the pious is nothing compared to

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the big natural national structure of wait can also think

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about school spirit and the definition of school spirit varies

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A little bit but one of the categories that's sports

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and does that mean that you're all painting your face

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is up and you know wearing the school sweatshirt around

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all day long Do you look forward to the big

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football game on the weekends with tens of thousands of

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students there But we find that some small colleges also

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have a lot of school spirit just on a smaller

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scale so they have a smaller stadium for the basketball

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games but students pack that another category of school spirit

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is the arts and this is something that a lot

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of the art students that i've worked with are pretty

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excited to find out that school spirit also convene your

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friends your haul your classmates coming out when you're at

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a place i'm serious lead in the play and they're

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there for you in the play is over congratulating even

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hugging you or you're playing an instrument in the orchestra

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same kind of thing they're there to cheer you on

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but it's not sports but there are a lot of

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colleges that don't really have much in the way of

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school spirit on a kind of traditional flik line of

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things so i think you just need to figure out

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do you want to be all rara or not quite

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as much and figure out where you are in that

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spectrum Consider the politics of your college Are you more

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conservative or liberal Consider your colleges school spirit Does it

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move you It is your college have a good sports

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team you really care Does your college have a good

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art program Is school spirit important to you How so

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