Dorian Jones

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hi dorian thank you so much for agreeing
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to be part of our back to the future
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project can i can you tell me a little
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bit about yourself your name your major
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yeah my name is dorian jones i am a
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music management major uh graduating
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this spring and i play bassoon
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so tell me how did you learn about
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pacific yeah so my band director in high
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school came to pacific for his master’s
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program
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and he actually took us on a field trip
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at one point during my four years
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and i got to love the campus fell in
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love with the campus instantly
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and decided to come here
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that’s so cool so
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that’s what made you choose it yeah okay
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do you have any family men
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family members or anyone else you know
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that maybe you’ve been here no i’m
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actually first-gen i i’m the first
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student in my family uh to come to
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college and finish a degree
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so that’s really honoring i have my
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family has been my biggest support uh
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the last four years so i love them so
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much excellent so what do you hope to do
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you know once you graduate
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so actually i have an internship lined
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up with siriusxm this summer
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so i’ll be working with them in the
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marketing department and then i want to
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continue marketing marketing um probably
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out of label uh but
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likely
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uh
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still working in marketing yes yeah
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that’s so cool yeah
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and so did anything significant
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happen you know during your lifetime
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here career life college lifetime so
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yeah you know
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whilst you were here that didn’t affect
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you in any way with positive or negative
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yeah uh so uh my previous advisor i have
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a new advisor now for the management
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department my previous advisor was able
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to line me up with an internship with a
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label last summer
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and i gained so much experience from the
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three months i was working with them
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just so much professional experience
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that i don’t think i would have gotten
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just sitting in classes
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so that that experiential experience was
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very very um important to me it means a
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lot to me
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is there any advice that you would give
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to
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you know incoming
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black students
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take advantage of the
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resources on campus take advantage of
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the people you have on campus everyone
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here is
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some of the sweetest people i’ve ever
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met
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so take advantage of everything you’ve
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got at your at your reach
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thank you so so much for your time