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Roberto Castro (’22)

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On November 21, 2019

In FLiSP Scholars, Student Highlight

Last but not least, we interview Roberto Castro. He’s from LA and plans to concentrate in Chemical Engineering. Check out his interview below:

Favorite class you’re taking this semester? Why?
I do like math, so that’s probably my favorite class. I know people are gonna be like how? But it’s one of the easier classes I’m taking, and I like the people in the class.

What are you currently looking forward to?
Recently, being here at Brown, it opened my mind. Realizing the potential that someone has within a community, not just as an individual, gave me a sense of what I can do outside of academics. 

One thing I want to get engaged with that I couldn’t get engaged with back home is going out to schools and tutoring students. It’s harder at home, because you need the mission, but here it’s already set. 

Favorite place on campus?
This greenhouse is really nice. It reminds me of home.

Adrianna Maxwell (’22)

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On November 21, 2019

In FLiSP Scholars, Student Highlight

Our penultimate interview this week: Adrianna Maxwell, a student from Chicago. She intends to study International Relations and Health and Human Bio. Read more below:

Favorite class you’re taking this semester? Why?
Surprisingly, it’s been Intro to Poetry. It’s my favorite class because I like how free the class is. All of my other classes are very constructed. Poetry is something I’ve always wanted to do but never explored and this class gave me the opportunity to explore those interests that I never had the time to delve into.

Why did you decide to apply to FLiSP?
I decided to apply because I knew that when I came to Brown I’d need a community I could relate to and talk about our experiences and have someone who would just know my situation. 

The workshops have been helped me navigate Brown’s resources. The conversation with CAPS was also helpful. I think there’s a stigma around mental health and the workshops have been helpful in teaching us how to reach out. Julio and Renata are really good people. They really do extend themselves for us.

Favorite place on campus?
The RISD library. I go to Shiru the most but if the RISD library was closer, I’d definitely go there more often.

Jason Mero (’22)

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On November 21, 2019

In FLiSP Scholars, Student Highlight

For our second highlight, we met with Jason Mero, a first year from Brooklyn, NY concentrating in Public Health. Read his interview below:

Favorite class you’re taking this semester? Why?
A First Year Seminar, it’s a bio research class —it’s fun because the professor is very lax about it and even though you’re in lab a lot, everyone in lab is fun and everyone has a good time while there. I also like Arabic. Learning a language is so fun and the sounds you make are so different. We laugh together about our mistakes and the professor is really cool.

What have you found to be most challenging so far about Brown?
Even though you take less classes, it’s a lot more intensive work. In high school, weighting is everything. Homework is worth so much in high school. In college there’s an incentive to study more and do more work, but in the end I’m learning a lot from my classes.

What are you currently looking forward to?
Seeing what Brown is like over time, seeing what sophomores and juniors are participating in, and I’m excited to go home for Thanksgiving, especially for the food.

Leticia Wood (’22)

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On November 21, 2019

In FLiSP Scholars, Student Highlight

Meet Leticia Wood, a first year from Bergenfield, NJ intending to concentrate in Cognitive Neuroscience and Africana Studies. Read her interview below:

Favorite class you’re taking this semester? Why?
Intro to Africana — since it’s an intro course we have to study a lot of different things like history, philosophy. We also have a lot of really cool guest lecturers. It’s a very open dialogue and I feel very comfortable in the space, especially because the professor is a black woman.

What are you currently looking forward to?
I’m really looking forward to taking more Africana classes and seeing what directions it can take me in. I’m taking two classes in Africana next semester and they’re both very different but it’s under the same discipline. One class is Gender, Slavery, and Freedom, which I’m seeing more as historical and theoretical, and the other one is Hip Hop Culture.

Favorite place on campus?
Is it weird if I say Andrews Commons? I really appreciate the food there.

Adela Herce (’22)

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On November 21, 2019

In FLiSP Scholars, Student Highlight

For this week’s second FLi Highlight, we interviewed Adela Herce, another FLiSP participant. Check out her interview below!

Hometown and intended concentration?
Hayward, CA and biochemistry.

Why did you apply to FLiSP?
I felt like it would give me a community and people I could relate to. It would help me make friends and it seemed like a really good resource. But a lot of us knew each other before. We all met each other on Twitter and ended up in U-FLiSP together.

What do you like best about Brown so far?
Aside from my friends, I like the fact that it is a very academic environment but not to the point where it’s not a collaborative environment. Brown isn’t a place where people are mean to each other just for asking for help.

What are you currently looking forward to?
I’m looking forward to building closer relationships with my friends and to see the growth from when I started at Brown until the end of first semester, end of second semester. Also going back home.

Antonio Almazan (’22)

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On November 21, 2019

In FLiSP Scholars, Student Highlight

In this week’s first (of two!) FLi Highlights, we interviewed Tony Almazan, a FLiSP participant hoping to concentrate in neuroscience. Read our interview with him below.

Hometown and intended concentration?
Los Angeles, CA and neuroscience.

What do you like best about Brown so far?
I really like the campus. I really like the buildings, walking around campus, and looking at some of the buildings. It’s cool to feel like, wow I’m at Brown, or I’m taking a class in Solomon – who else might have taken that class? The atmosphere of being at Brown is my favorite part.

What have you found to be most challenging so far about Brown?
Navigating the open curriculum is pretty hard. I don’t want to take too many classes within my concentration and I want to take some fun classes, so it’s about finding the balance of being able to take whatever you want and stay on top of it.

Favorite class you’re taking this semester? Why?
Neuro 10 – it’s also the hardest but I think that’s what makes it my favorite, because it’s my concentration so it’s really interesting to me to learn about the brain and how our behavior and everything we do is controlled by chemicals and electrical impulses. That’s crazy to me. I haven’t been challenged by a class like this in a long time.

Josue Adan Zepeda Sanic (’22)

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On November 21, 2019

In FLiSP Scholars, Student Highlight

Meet Josue: a first-year student hoping to concentrate in Political Science, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Visual Art. Read our interview with him below.

Favorite class you’re taking this semester?
VISA100 – it gives me a break, it’s a way of therapy, a way to still do work but work that you enjoy doing.

What kind of art are you interested in?
Primarily sculpture and ceramics. Sculpture is such a broad term, but I want to learn how to weld. I like making clay heads and clay plates and clay cups. I want to learn how to glassblow too.

What do you like best about Brown so far?
I’m not sure yet – it’s a big transition for me right now. It’s a lot of work but I like how uncomfortable it’s making me, because I see that as room for growth. It’s a good uncomfortable because I know it will help me in the long run.

Why did you apply to the FLi Scholars Program?
I knew I was going to need a support group to help me out and start my family, to handle Brown and it’s elitism. It’s a way for me to make friends also and get more comfortable with my surroundings. 

If you were a building on campus, what building would you be?
I’d be Granoff because I’m interested in modernistic architecture. There’s something so pretty and out of this world and elegant, but it also has so much personality.

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