Speaker: Curly hair: Madelyn Hunter | Straight Hair: Emma Palmer
What does receiving Spirit of State mean to you?
Curly hair: Madelyn Hunter | Straight Hair: Emma Palmer: Receiving the Spirit of State award is such an honor because I get to stand beside so many students in the past and this year who have made this university such a great place for students to come and enjoy life and make friends and really just serve the community. And it's such an honor to get to be recognized with all of those amazing students. And for me, it means a lot that the university wants to support students who are trying to enrich student life for the greater student body and receiving the Spirit of State. Really just shows me that this university wants to enrich student life and wants to therefore recognize students who want to enrich student life and being a part of a university like that makes me proud.
What has been your most rewarding experience at MSU?
Curly hair: Madelyn Hunter | Straight Hair: Emma Palmer: So my most meaningful experience at MSU has definitely been serving as a College of Ag and Life Sciences Ambassador. Just getting to recruit new students at MSU and share my love and my passion for my experience here has been so meaningful, especially since I was originally recruited by ambassadors myself. So it's a very full circle moment to be able to serve as president this year and to take care of 50 of my peers who are also invested in this wonderful recruitment. So and I've also loved being an ambassador under Madeleine's presidency that has been such a great experience. But for me, the most rewarding experience I've had at Mississippi State was helping my good friend Zoe Ishi found the Neuroscience Club at MSU. Um I was able to serve as the vice president this year, and we got to fill this hole that we had at the university uh for just this neuroscience education that we needed and that people wanted. And my favorite event that we got to plan was the sheep brain dissection where we got a whole bunch of sheep brains, and we had about 50 students get together and just explore everything. And it was really full circle moment for me too because it reminded me a lot of whenever I was first introduced to neuroscience in high school, and I got to do a sheep brain dissection, and it was just amazing to see people discover something that I love for the first time. And so cool.
In what ways can you continue to embody the Spirit of State?
Curly hair: Madelyn Hunter | Straight Hair: Emma Palmer: So I plan to continue embodying the Spirit of State in my graduate studies at the University of Michigan, where I will continue to promote a culture of collaboration that I've learned while here at Mississippi State. And just really share my passions with people, with outreach with education. And I absolutely would love to come back to Mississippi State at some point to share more of my passions with this campus. And I think it's so special because honestly, my answer is pretty similar, but I'll be continuing my graduate studies here at MSU. And I plan to keep, you know, giving back to this campus. It's given so much to me, but I think it's really beautiful and speaks to the preparation that our professors have given us here at MSU that we both have that same goal, whether here in Starkville or as far away as Michigan or the rest of the world. And I think that speaks volumes.
