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I'm Lauren, I'm from Seward, Nebraska.
And I'm a flute performance major in the Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska.
When I first meet people, I always warn them about my laugh
because it's really loud.
Like if you tell me a funny joke,
you have to brace yourself every time.
[laughter]
When I began my college search, I always thought that UNL would
be a little too close to home.
So UNL was the very last campus that I visited.
And the second that I stepped on campus, I connected with so many different people
and I knew that I had found my home.
I always had a huge passion for playing the flute.
And I knew that it was something that I just couldn't stop after high school.
I loved it, it was part of my life, I had to keep doing it every day.
I always knew that I was interested in understanding
kind of the science of music and why music could impact people in
such different ways, and how we could use that you know great
power of music to better people's lives.
So I declared my psychology double major and I'm really interested
in music cognition and music perception and how people understand music.
In this lab we do a lot of really awesome fun things.
We have these really cool head nets that we put on participants
and they look like something from the future.
You feel like you're gonna get electrocuted but you don't.
There's tiny little electrodes.
And from those nets we're able to look at your brain activity
and see what's going on in different parts of the brain.
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The faculty and the staff within Westbrook are the best
professors that you'll find on this campus.
And they're one of the main reasons that I chose to
come to UNL.
Always encourage you to go above and beyond in whatever
you're doing, whether it be studying a score in music theory
or working on something for a conducting class.
[professor: What I'm hearing…]
I love music so much because it can connect with everyone.
You rarely talk to a person that says "I don't listen to music."
I mean my parents knew all along that I should pursue a degree in music
and I'm so glad that I did.
I love it and I have not regretted one single day of
being a music major.
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