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Q: If you could describe your UConn SoN experience in three words or one phrase, what would they be?<\/strong><\/p>\n A: <\/strong>“Home, challenging, and friends.”<\/p>\n Q: What is your favorite thing about SoN?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s the little things. Like getting cookies in the atrium for little events\u2026that was really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n Q: What are some of your fondest memories as a nursing student?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> \u201cI would say the clinical instructors. Meeting them and seeing how engaged they are with their students and how enthusiastic they are. Every time we finish a semester, it was emotional saying goodbye to the instructors. That shows how close the students got to their professors.\u201d<\/p>\n Q: What are your biggest accomplishments during your time here?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> \u201cGetting through the Honors program in nursing and achieving it. Also growing as a person. In a personal way, I learned a lot about myself and also academically by learning a lot about nursing, research, and about nursing as a science and art.\u201d<\/p>\n Q: What’s your biggest takeaway or something that stuck with you during your SoN experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> \u201cThe best content is the one made memorable by an instructor. Maybe a funny story or a memory trick.\u201d<\/p>\n Q: What’s something you wish you knew before coming into this program?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> \u201cManaging all the resources the right way. Especially as a first-generation student, you don\u2019t see those sources as resources. If I had known about them at the beginning, it would have changed a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n Q: If you could take a class again, what class would it be and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> \u201cGlobal politics of childbearing with Dr. Eileen Condon. I still have the book today and I want to keep it because it reflects so much about nursing in different cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n Q: Go-to spots on campus?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> \u201cOh, the lakes. I like walking around the lakes.\u201d<\/p>\n Q: Any study-hacks or superstition rituals before exams?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> \u201cAt some point, we started saying \u2018much success\u2019 instead of saying \u2018good luck\u2019 because I always felt like good luck implies that you need luck to be successful. However, saying \u2018much success,’ you know the things that are going to be on the test, and you\u2019ve studied for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Q: What advice would you give to incoming nursing students?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> \u201cMake the most out of all the opportunities you get and don\u2019t be disappointed if something doesn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n Q: What are your plans after graduation?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> \u201cI just accepted a job at Yale New Haven Hospital so I\u2019m very excited for that. I\u2019m also applying to medical school either this year or next year. [At Yale] I\u2019m going to work on a pulmonary progressive overflow unit.\u201d<\/p>\n Q: Any shoutouts to faculty or staff that helped you along the way?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> \u201cI would definitely shout out my three honors advisors that I had throughout my journey: Dr. Casavant, Dr. Coffey, and Dr. Eaton. I think they made a huge impact by letting me develop as a person and letting me grow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Q&A with graduating senior Tobias Fraedrich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":198593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2655],"class_list":["post-230100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-28 18:04:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230100"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230168,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230100\/revisions\/230168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/198593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230100"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=230100"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=230100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tobias](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tobias-Fraedich2-267x300.jpg\")