Student Spotlight: Cassidy Spencer

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What year are you and what is your major?

I am a junior Social Studies Education major. 

What makes you different from anyone else (hidden talent, travel experiences, etc.)

I think this is a really weird thing, but it’s definitely different [laughs]. One of my friends started an Instagram account last year called “candidcassidy” and it’s just random pictures of me when I’m not paying attention or doing weird things. It’s weird because it started out as a joke between our friend group and then it turned into this huge thing with more than 800 followers. I’ve had a couple people actually stop me and ask if I’m the girl from the Instagram account and I’m like, yep that’s me! 

I know you are involved in a lot of things on campus, can you tell me about a few of those activities?

I am definitely involved in a lot on campus! I’m a CA in Grafton, part of the Ultimate Frisbee Club, a member of Tau Omega sorority, and I’m a coordinator for Alternative Spring Break. Ultimate Frisbee is super fun, and it’s the club where I met a lot of my current friends. ASB is another really awesome group. ASB is a community service group and we travel during spring break to volunteer in places outside of New England. Since I’m a coordinator this year, I’m leading a group to Lake Barkley State Resort Park in Kentucky. It’s going to be a really fun trip and I’m super excited! 

You mentioned that you’re in a sorority, how is the Greek life?

I am! Tau Omega is a sorority recognized by Plymouth State and we’re a community service based sorority. The Greek life here at Plymouth is pretty muted, but we’re trying to get people more excited about it. We’re working on teaming up with the other two recognized sororities to do some bigger events for the school. 

Any advice you would want to give first-year students?

I think the most important thing to know is that life is hard. College is hard. Making friends is hard. People are going to judge you, there’s going to be days when you want to quit, but you can’t. Life, especially when you’re in college, throws things at you left and right but that’s what it’s about. You learn from all the difficult things and that’s when you figure out who you are. That’s what college is for, learning how to take the difficult things and grow from them.