Meet this week’s Campus Celebrity, Rae Meade! Rae is the Managing Editor of everyone’s favorite newspaper, The Voice, a Writing Fellow and a tutor in the Writing Center! You can find her haunting the halls of Bakeless with her classically bold red lip and friendly disposition. HC was lucky to snag an interview with her — check it out below!
Hometown: Chalfont, PAMajor: English with a Minor in Professional WritingYear: SeniorRelationship Status: In a relationship of 3 years
Her Campus: Your first name is really Chelsea – is there any particular reason why you go by your middle name Rae?Rae Meade: That’s a good question! I wish I had an interesting answer. I just have always loved my middle name more, and I associate myself with the name somehow. My Giant name-tag still says Chelsea and it irks me.
HC: What activities are you involved in on campus?RM: This is my second semester as a Writing Fellow for a developmental writing class. I work in the Writing Center as a tutor, but being a Fellow is a little bit different. Each Fellow is assigned a class to work with for the whole semester, so I meet with the same groups of students every week and attend class with them, sort of like a TA. I’m also currently one of the Managing Editors on The Voice—I manage News and Sports.
HC: How did you get involved with The Voice?RM: I had a friend who I tutored a lot in sophomore year who was a Managing Editor at the time. He got me interested in copy editing, and I ended up switching over to Assistant Arts and Entertainment Editor that same semester.
HC: What has your experience been like working for The Voice?RM: You know how you see newspaper staffs on T.V. and everyone is stereotypically drinking coffee and freaking out and yelling at each other? That’s fairly accurate. But what might not come across to an outsider is how much we all really do love each other. In the midst of the chaos of production nights, it might not seem like it. But we do, and I love it for that. It taught me teamwork and flexibility—how to deal with personalities that are just as rambunctious as my own.
HC: It’s your senior year! What are you looking forward to after graduation?RM: I don’t want to graduate! I love Bloomsburg so much. But what I have planned currently is graduate school. I applied to five out-of-state graduate programs in Rhetoric and Composition with a hopeful focus in writing center studies. Now, I’m just frantically checking my mailbox every day.
HC: What do you consider your greatest accomplishment throughout your time at Bloomsburg? RM: I’m most proud of my growth as a tutor. When I first came to Bloomsburg, I had this whole idea of what it meant to be “a writer.” Working at the writing center showed me a whole new way of talking about writing. Growing from writing consultant to a fellow this year is hands down what I’m most proud of and most grateful for.
HC: Is there anything still on your Bloomsburg bucket list that has yet to be crossed off?RM: I feel really corny saying this, but no—I’ve had so many good experiences here. If I could cross off “never graduating ever,” I would do that. (This is coming across a little sad and pathetic. Ah, well. There’s always one pathetic senior.)
HC: Now that it’s your last semester, do you have any advice to offer underclassmen?RM: Major in what you love even if everyone tells you it’s not practical. Who cares? Everyone struggles out of college anyway. Don’t waste four years studying something you hate. Do what you love every day.
Favorite……place to eat on campus? Montys…Oscar nominated movie this year? The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug…song of the moment? Somehow, it’s still Royals by Lorde. How am I not sick of it yet?…book? Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli…class taken at Bloosmburg? Dr. Roggenbuck’s Theory and Practice of Writing…way to relax? Currently, binge-watching Sons of Anarchy on Netflix.