TEXT for UK Recruitment 2008 Video:

"I am Ryan Smith."
"I am from Louisville, Kentucky."
"I am a junior here at UK."
"Come on in and let me show you around."
"Hey Thomas"
"How's it going Ryan?"
"Good to see you!"
"I had seen and talked to so many of my friends before I graduated high school, and they were telling me about all the opportunities available at UK. And I just thought I couldn't expect more from college!"
"This is kind of the gaming room, the T.V. Room, this is where we all come in hang, out get together as a fraternity."
"There were so many doors that were opened, and the first semester I immediately became comfortable and loved this campus."
"I am actually president of the fraternity."
"I have been really lucky over the past couple of years to be a volunteer for the Advance Team, and be traveling across the country and across the world with President Bush."
"I'm going to taking a PS391 finial right now, and I am going to go rub this foot for good luck. It is kind of a tradition here at UK."
"I have been so impressed by the caliber of teachers that are here at this University and Professors."
"Well thanks again for letting me show you around UK."
"I hope think about coming here next year, and I hope your experience here is as good as mine has been!"


"Hi my name is Puja Shah and I am an International Student from Kenya.
"While I was applying to college, I came on to UK as one of the really good schools in the U.S., and I wanted to come here to study pharmacy."
"I actually was very pleasantly surprised when I came to UK, I didn't feel estranged at all."
"People were extremely friendly, I felt really welcomed, and that just made the whole transition really easy for me!"
"I would like to introduce Karen Slaymaker; she is the assistant dean at the office of international affairs."
"She has helped welcome many new international students here to the campus, and we appreciate that kind of volunteer spirit."
"I was involved in the International Student Council, and basically our aim was to try and promote diversity within UK."
"I am here in the college of pharmacy, and I am currently standing in the lab where we practice compounding."
"We make creams, we make gels, different things that have to be made for the patient."
"I love working with patients and having that patient pharmacist interaction."
"So, what I see myself doing right now, is working in a hospital."
"So from me goodbye, from Kenya and from India.

"Hi my name is Krishna Vyas, and I am a Sophomore Biology major."
"What impressed me most when I first came to campus was not only the magnitude of the researches that were available, but the people that were actually here to help you make the most of your undergraduate education."
"The library is really an amazing place, it's remarkably large and it allows for a lot of interactions between students, and there is also a writing center which offers a lot of aid for writing for classes, for reports."
"The Hub is a really great place for finals and midterms especially, because students are allowed to talk with one another."
"I am currently in the research lab with Dr. Mario Sumandia, this is my lab mentor."
"When I first came to UK I looked into a lot of labs."
"I interviewed with about twenty different professors, and I finally found my home here because it was something that I was really interested in doing."
"We are investigating heart failure and the mechanisms which alter heart failure.
I have really developed as an individual and as a scientist, and hopefully this will help save some lives in the future."
"This is what I am passionate about and here you can find your passion too."
"Hope to see you around."


"My name is Mandy McGee, I am from Cadiz, Kentucky."
"Here at the Visitors Center I am a student worker, and I am a tour guide."
"I give them a tour of campus, I take them all over, answer the questions that they might have, just kind of give them a firsthand take on what it is like to be a student here at the University."
"Don't feel bad if you are thinking it is going to be really hard getting to and from different places."
"You have ample time between your classes and between different activities to get where you need to go."
"I plan on pursuing becoming a registered dietitian, that's my dream."
"Welcome to the Lemon Tree Restaurant, that is completely student run by the NFS 342 class.
It really helps in my field; I can kind of see where I am going with that, and how it is going to come into play when I am practicing as a dietitian, so I have enjoyed it!"
"I love the football games; I love sports in general, not a care in the world."
"That’s my SEE BLUE story, hope that you will have one too!! GO CATS!"


"Hi, my name is Barb Jackson, I am originally from Chicago, Illinois, and I am majoring in Special Education."
"One of the main reasons why I came to UK was because I wanted to kind of get away and be open to anything."
"When I first started walking around looking where all my classes were, and my dorms, I was filled with a nervous feeling in my stomach, because, I didn't know if I was ever going to feel comfortable."
"Just getting involved and meeting people, I never thought it would be so fulfilling."
"Welcome to the Student Government office!"
"This is my desk, I am the communications director, and here at student government some of the things that we try to do is to help unify the campus and the student body."
"Right now I am just hanging out at Café du Chat; it is a café that is in the student center."
"It's a nice break that I can take in between classes or even at the end of my day."
"There is one thing as a student that you do need to know C-A-T-S, CATS, CATS,CATS.  Yea go UK because I still can't get over the fact that I am here, which is kind of funny."
"Whenever I walk around, I really feel at home."
"Thanks for following me around today, and I hope to see YOU on campus."