Lilly Feder is your favorite former collegiate athlete turned awesome professor! “Rate your High School Experience (1-10):” Holistic experience: 10 Happy experience: 6-7 Hot Seat (they get 2 hall passes) * PLAY DAYDREAMING* Who was your high school crush? And did you ever shoot your shot? Who did you have beef with, or didn’t have a good vibe around? Did you drink or do drugs in high school? Why or why not? Are you currently north or south of a six-figure income? As of this podcast, is your investment portfolio larger than your student loan debts? What was your most embarrassing or awkward high school moment? Did you have your first kiss in high school? And if so, who was it with? Times Stamps: 9 mins: “Way Back Machine” 10 mins: UC San Diego for college and summer league and conditioning for basketball. Injured freshman year. Graduated and worked at UCSD and was an academic advisor. COMM major (switched majors 3x) 11:40 mins: Master and got a PhD and is an assistance professor at Marquette 13 mins: recruitment process for basketball at UCSD 15 mins: How the transition from high school to college ball was 16 mins: What was her devastating injury (Fainted on the court during conditioning testing) 18 mins: How to transition from an athlete to an academic mindset and identity 20 mins: Lilly’s first major (intro Communications class) and then wanted to be a Sport Psychology (didn’t like the physiology aspect) and then wanted to be a Lawyer 21 mins: What was the decision to pursue a masters program 23 mins: From UCSD to a masters at Purdue in Indiana and then a PhD at Purdue which JUST finished (in Athlete resilience) 27 mins: Job at Marquette to teach, do research and advise students 28 mins: Lilly defending her dissertation on the POD and the favorite finding (process vs. trait) but from research adversity and how to actively do or not do something 34 mins: “JOB DEEP DIVE” as a professor at Marquette University 37 mins: How Lilly sets the tone in her classroom 39 mins: How Artificial Ingelligence affects her classroom 42 mins: Lilly’s top writing tips 45 mins: If the next 10 years were perfect, what would you want? Lightening Round:* PLAY FEEDING THE DUCKS* Best off campus lunch spot? Hardest class you took? Which year of high-school would you most like to re-live? Would you rather have a late-start Wednesday, or an early-release Friday? Who was the hottest teacher at SAMO? What song from our high school era is still on your playlist today? Also, we hope you enjoyed Tyler's into verse to our Alumni Podcast! The credits for the B-Roll and instrumental are below: Brandon’s B-Roll of Santa Monica: • Santa Monica | Brandon's B-roll Intro Music Credit: Youtube: Beat provided by https://freebeats.io Produced by White Hot Instagram: Music by @freebeats.io Our Instagram: @alumni_podcast / alumni_podcast