Student Conversations with Kamryn Buchanan
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Nick Pace sits down with Kamryn Buchanan to discuss her journey through graduate school in Educational Psychology, her experiences as Miss Nebraska USA, and her plans for the future after graduation.
College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS); University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)
CONTENT CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
00:20 - Why Pursue Graduate School
00:40 - Miss Nebraska USA
01:36 - What Are Your Goals For The Next 5 To 10 Years
02:08 - Have These Goals Always Been Part Of Your Vision
03:05 - Why Women's Health
03:52 - What Did You Enjoy Most About Educational Psychology And CEHS
04:30 - Are There Any Areas For Improvements In CEHS Or Educational Psychology
05:32 - What Are Your Plans After Graduation
06:04 - A Letter To Your 5-Year-Old Self
06:56 - Thank You For Being With Us
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- [00:00:01.201]Hey, everybody.
- [00:00:01.685]Interim Dean Nick Pace here.
- [00:00:03.186]And I am with Kamryn Buchanan.
- [00:00:06.306]Hello, Kamryn. Hello.
- [00:00:08.191]Third year PhD student
- [00:00:09.909]in Counseling Psychology.
- [00:00:11.728]Yes.
- [00:00:12.445]And where's home?
- [00:00:13.880]Omaha, Nebraska.
- [00:00:15.031]Okay.
- [00:00:15.448]And you were here as an undergrad?
- [00:00:17.967]Yes.
- [00:00:18.418]And stuck around.
- [00:00:19.252]I did.
- [00:00:19.886]Awesome. Love it.
- [00:00:20.970]Why did you stay?
- [00:00:22.255]I made really great connections.
- [00:00:24.140]And then I had a professor
- [00:00:25.709]who showed me
- [00:00:27.093]the ropes of the PhD program
- [00:00:29.012]and master's program here.
- [00:00:30.747]So I just felt like
- [00:00:32.766]there were a lot of people
- [00:00:33.533]who wanted me to succeed and stay around.
- [00:00:36.052]And my family's here, too, so.
- [00:00:38.938]Love it.
- [00:00:39.989]And so there's something else
- [00:00:42.058]that, folks,
- [00:00:43.043]something else about you
- [00:00:44.461]that folks might recognize you
- [00:00:45.995]from or be interested in.
- [00:00:47.664]Tell us that side of Kamryn.
- [00:00:49.182]Yes.
- [00:00:49.799]So I decided to do
- [00:00:51.201]Miss Nebraska USA, last year.
- [00:00:53.937]It was my first pageant ever
- [00:00:56.122]to compete in and I ended up winning.
- [00:00:58.708]So I'm currently the Miss Nebraska USA for 2024. And congratulations.
- [00:01:02.395]So, Thank you.
- [00:01:03.346]how does somebody just say,
- [00:01:05.965]you know what,
- [00:01:06.416]I think I'm going to give this a try
- [00:01:07.650]and then win it.
- [00:01:08.785]Is that unusual?
- [00:01:10.620]I mean be chosen first time through? I would say so.
- [00:01:13.373]Yes, I would say so.
- [00:01:14.574]There's a lot of preparation
- [00:01:15.742]that goes into it.
- [00:01:17.610]Former Miss Nebraska USA
- [00:01:19.846]was Mimi Wood
- [00:01:20.964]she was my freshman year
- [00:01:22.048]roommate here in the Suites.
- [00:01:23.666]Okay.
- [00:01:24.267]And she came to me,
- [00:01:25.502]and she thought I'd be a good
- [00:01:27.904]candidate to compete.
- [00:01:30.240]And so I listened to her
- [00:01:31.791]and here we are. So that's where it started.
- [00:01:33.393]Yes.
- [00:01:33.877]Okay.
- [00:01:34.594]So what's the what's the intersection
- [00:01:39.082]of your PhD program and
- [00:01:42.352]your experiences as Miss Nebraska.
- [00:01:44.404]And
- [00:01:46.473]five years from now, ten years from now,
- [00:01:48.241]what do you want to be doing?
- [00:01:49.826]Women's empowerment.
- [00:01:51.177]I want to focus on
- [00:01:52.712]women's mental health,
- [00:01:53.980]women's physical health
- [00:01:55.365]and women's research.
- [00:01:57.300]So I plan to open my private practice
- [00:01:59.752]in counseling psychology
- [00:02:01.554]and do the research
- [00:02:03.223]and help women with confidence,
- [00:02:05.525]physical health, mental health.
- [00:02:07.060]Okay.
- [00:02:07.794]And if
- [00:02:09.696]if you were talking to your former self
- [00:02:13.817]would, would that be right in line
- [00:02:16.052]with what you've always kind of
- [00:02:17.187]been thinking about?
- [00:02:17.971]Or is that like, wow,
- [00:02:18.922]how did I end up here?
- [00:02:20.273]Yes, I think my former self
- [00:02:22.325]would appreciate my current self and
- [00:02:25.495]would tell her a lot of things
- [00:02:26.646]that she would wanted to here.
- [00:02:28.081]Just keep going. You'll figure it out.
- [00:02:29.916]Okay, so the Miss Nebraska
- [00:02:32.452]might possibly be a surprise
- [00:02:34.504]to your former self,
- [00:02:35.572]but not the direction
- [00:02:36.890]that you're using
- [00:02:38.525]Yes. your studies and your experiences,
- [00:02:40.360]as Miss Nebraska to know. Yes.
- [00:02:42.729]Yes, I grew up modeling,
- [00:02:44.480]so I started modeling when I was 12.
- [00:02:46.733]Okay.
- [00:02:47.150]So I had the walk
- [00:02:48.868]and some things that I needed
- [00:02:50.136]for Miss Nebraska.
- [00:02:51.387]But pageantry was never something
- [00:02:53.556]I thought about.
- [00:02:54.440]Okay. Isn't it funny how things turn out?
- [00:02:56.926]Yes, yes.
- [00:02:58.261]A lot of things came together,
- [00:02:59.762]which is why I think I'm in the
- [00:03:01.581]position I am in today.
- [00:03:03.032]Okay.
- [00:03:04.834]What.
- [00:03:05.752]Are there specific things
- [00:03:07.353]that have,
- [00:03:08.104]like, pulled you in to women's,
- [00:03:12.375]Women's health,
- [00:03:13.026]Women's mental health that,
- [00:03:16.296]you know, are front and center for you,
- [00:03:18.831]or can you, Yeah.
- [00:03:19.832]can you pinpoint how that field
- [00:03:23.870]and that need
- [00:03:24.988]kind of grabbed a hold of you?
- [00:03:26.639]Yes, I think I was always
- [00:03:27.891]surrounded with women.
- [00:03:29.092]My family is all women.
- [00:03:30.593]I have one male cousin.
- [00:03:32.161]Okay.
- [00:03:32.495]And then coming into psychology,
- [00:03:35.665]there's a huge lack and limitation
- [00:03:38.067]in research and women
- [00:03:39.786]knowing things about their body
- [00:03:41.271]and understanding things.
- [00:03:42.755]And so that's kind of where those
- [00:03:45.291]worlds merged for me
- [00:03:46.826]was to build
- [00:03:47.710]that understanding for everyone.
- [00:03:49.829]Awesome.
- [00:03:50.697]How.
- [00:03:52.148]Best thing about your experiences
- [00:03:55.885]in the Department of Educational Psychology
- [00:03:58.137]and or the
- [00:03:59.005]College of Education and Human Sciences?
- [00:04:00.890]What, what stands out?
- [00:04:01.975]What would you tell other,
- [00:04:04.794]current students advice,
- [00:04:06.296]perspectives students?
- [00:04:07.313]What would.
- [00:04:08.681]What's important for them to hear from you?
- [00:04:10.433]You're never alone.
- [00:04:11.584]There's always someone who's been through
- [00:04:13.202]what you're going through
- [00:04:14.370]or knows how to get through
- [00:04:15.421]what you're going through.
- [00:04:16.656]I think with advising
- [00:04:18.091]and the people around you
- [00:04:19.592]in that environment, it's
- [00:04:20.960]very enriched
- [00:04:22.312]with people
- [00:04:23.429]wanting to support you and get you where
- [00:04:25.865]you want to be.
- [00:04:27.533]Okay.
- [00:04:31.554]Anything specific that
- [00:04:32.939]you would like to tell somebody
- [00:04:34.524]in my role
- [00:04:35.391]as interim dean
- [00:04:36.426]or your faculty members or.
- [00:04:39.762]What, what should we know?
- [00:04:41.247]And what should we be thinking about?
- [00:04:42.682]What do you need us to hear?
- [00:04:44.901]That our programs
- [00:04:45.935]doing a really good job,
- [00:04:47.403]and we're working with what we have.
- [00:04:50.523]We have a clinic
- [00:04:51.541]that we would love students to come to
- [00:04:54.560]and would love to advertise that more,
- [00:04:58.014]just in our environment,
- [00:04:59.882]Okay. I think
- [00:05:00.783]So the counseling and psych
- [00:05:02.635]counseling and school psych clinic,
- [00:05:04.370]first floor, garden level
- [00:05:06.105]of Teachers College Hall. Yes.
- [00:05:07.623]That can come down, access Yes.
- [00:05:09.509]services, support,
- [00:05:12.295]that might be an under
- [00:05:13.529]the radar opportunity
- [00:05:14.998]for lots of people on campus,
- [00:05:16.733]I’m thinking. Yes.
- [00:05:17.550]In my undergrad experience,
- [00:05:18.868]I feel like I might have looked it over,
- [00:05:22.722]or brushed through pamphlets or things
- [00:05:24.741]that have it in it, but yes,
- [00:05:27.060]making it known and visible
- [00:05:28.561]for people to use as a resource.
- [00:05:30.747]Very cool.
- [00:05:33.066]When you finish,
- [00:05:34.350]you want to start your practice.
- [00:05:36.803]Where’s that going to be?
- [00:05:37.804]Is that in Nebraska
- [00:05:38.721]for a Nebraska person, or might we?
- [00:05:43.042]I would like to venture off,
- [00:05:44.610]but Nebraska is my home roots.
- [00:05:46.746]My family's here
- [00:05:47.997]and a lot of my schooling has been here,
- [00:05:50.883]so I feel like I owe it to Nebraska
- [00:05:52.702]to stick around. But we'll see. Maybe
- [00:05:55.671]Maybe I’ll end up somewhere warmer.
- [00:05:57.590]Okay.
- [00:05:58.441]As we head into fall.
- [00:05:59.759]It's looking a little gray out there.
- [00:06:01.461]Yeah.
- [00:06:04.313]Letter.
- [00:06:04.864]This so
- [00:06:06.833]Letter to your five year old self
- [00:06:09.902]on the cusp of
- [00:06:11.971]finishing your PhD here
- [00:06:13.506]within the next year or so,
- [00:06:15.308]mm-hmm hopefully.
- [00:06:17.343]What would you tell that little girl
- [00:06:19.679]about the distance traveled,
- [00:06:21.981]about Miss Nebraska,
- [00:06:23.883]and the things that probably you
- [00:06:27.086]maybe couldn't have invisioned
- [00:06:28.621]at that point.
- [00:06:30.006]I would tell her, like,
- [00:06:31.407]look within, the powers within you.
- [00:06:35.311]Don't make anything external
- [00:06:38.848]as big as it should be
- [00:06:40.500]or bigger than yourself,
- [00:06:42.385]because you'll get through
- [00:06:43.386]a lot of things
- [00:06:44.003]turning inward
- [00:06:44.871]and figuring out who you are.
- [00:06:47.123]Nice.
- [00:06:48.357]Talk a lot about impacting
- [00:06:50.443]human condition in our college,
- [00:06:52.345]and I think you just you just nailed it.
- [00:06:54.847]Yeah.
- [00:06:55.248]Awesome.
- [00:06:55.798]Thanks for spending some time with me.
- [00:06:57.500]Yeah,
- [00:06:58.351]I normally carry around
- [00:06:59.519]Dairy Store ice cream tickets
- [00:07:01.220]and I'm fresh out today.
- [00:07:02.488]But I'm going on video Oh no.
- [00:07:03.973]and saying I'm good for it.
- [00:07:04.974]Okay.
- [00:07:05.541]So you will get your ticket.
- [00:07:06.576]Thank you.
- [00:07:07.176]Awesome. Thank you so much.
- [00:07:08.561]Yes.
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