by Adriana Rose<\/p>\n
Peyton Lawson is a Freshman from Rustburg, Virginia.\u00a0 She is a Psychology major looking to minor in either theatre or Spanish.\u00a0 She chose Roanoke College because of the gorgeous scenery and its location.\u00a0 She mentions how she loves Salem because it\u2019s not a major city, there\u2019s little to no traffic, and there are a lot of great food options right outside of campus. When asked about what she wants to do with her degree, she explained, \u201cI don\u2019t know, I\u2019m not that good at planning that far but Psychology is a really broad topic, and it can apply to many places. I\u2019ll find my footing as I go!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Peyton is heavily involved in theatre here on campus and expresses how much she loves the program here.\u00a0 She especially notes that Dr. Nelson Barre and Danielle Barre make the program amazing, and she loves the welcoming environment that theatre provides here on campus.\u00a0 She has worked both on stage and backstage for the past two shows, Bodas de Sangre and the Importance of Being Earnest.\u00a0 She explains how acting is much easier, and while she loved being the assistant manager for the Importance of Being Earnest, she much rather prefers acting and being on stage.\u00a0 She states, \u201cActing is a lot easier, and it\u2019s mainly focused on memorization. Being an assistant stage manager, you don\u2019t get any time off and it is a lot of work, but the experience is worth it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Some advice Peyton wants to give is, \u201cTry to put yourself out there. My first semester was hard because I didn\u2019t get as involved. Once I got involved, I met a lot of really cool people and I now have a lot of great connections all over campus. It is a cool campus full of a lot of interesting people, so once you get out there, you\u2019ll find some great people you\u2019ll vibe with and it will completely change your college experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Adriana Rose Peyton Lawson is a Freshman from Rustburg, Virginia.\u00a0 She is a Psychology major looking to minor in either theatre or Spanish.\u00a0 She chose Roanoke College because of the gorgeous scenery and its location.\u00a0 She mentions how she loves Salem because it\u2019s not a major city, there\u2019s little to no traffic, and there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-7181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folks-at-noke","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}