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Caitlin Henderson: I grew up in a small town and I really wanted to experience a bigger city and Mobile fit that for me. A lot of opportunities here, I am able to see what it is like to live in a bigger city, so that is kind of nice for me to branch out in that regard.
In undergrad, I didn’t get to experience a lot of small classes, it was a lot of 200-plus classes, so it is nice to see the same 20 faces around me every day. I do feel like there is a sense of friendship amongst everybody. We actually had a girl come down from the Auburn campus and that was the first thing that she commented on was how close everyone down here seemed.
I think the video conferencing is really a neat concept because you do have that direct access to your faculty members, and even as far as clubs and organizations go, we are able to connect with all of our organizations via that same programming. It is not just a one-way street, it is not always just Mobile video conferencing in with Auburn, sometimes our Mobile faculty also teaches and presents, so Auburn gets to shift their focus to Mobile.
Chance Partlow: The faculty all know me on a first-name basis, there is a lot of opportunities that comes with that if you want to research, it is pretty easy, you can just walk in and knock on their door anytime, they are always very available and they are very nice.
I knew that I wanted to work in a clinical setting, so being able to go to the student-run free clinic here, you get to work with people from different disciplines so that way when I do work with people like nursing students, behavioral health students, medical students, I wanted to go ahead and get that experience now so when I do move into my career and work in an interprofessional team, it is a very easy transition. Without us, they wouldn’t be able to seek medical attention, if they don’t have insurance or money or things like that, so we are able to provide care for those people and it benefits both sides, we get that experience and also get to really change people’s lives. You get to see that in the health care setting, it is not necessarily just the physician or just anyone else making the decisions, it is really a team-based decision for every single patient. There is a lot that goes into it that you really don’t see.
Before I lived here, I lived in Destin, so I knew I wanted to live somewhere that was really close to the beach and that is awesome, we are like an hour away, or two hours away, from three or four beaches, that is the best part about being here, you can go on any kind of weekend, any time you have some time off, you can go fishing, things like that, there are a lot of opportunities for outdoor activities and stuff. I really like that.
