Living and Studying in Roanoke

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[Andrew Li]: Driving into Roanoke the first thing I noticed was the big mountain with the star on top.

[Sarah Herrman]: I absolutely fell in love with Roanoke when I moved here. The people are so nice.

[Scott Figor]: it's it's really just a great community, a great environment, and really everything that I want to do is here.

[Vandana Kumar]: It's just been a really great place to get to know people and form some really sincere relationships.

[Nikki Sood]: I just think about the times that you're in the hospital at 6:00 in the morning and you look out the windows and you get to see the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. 

[Conor O'Neill]: It's a great place to have that feeling of a city where you can go downtown and you can have some of those amenities of being in a city, but small enough that, you know, it takes us just a few minutes to get from home to work.

[Jing Chen]: It's small enough that we can walk to every places. My parents are living with us and they don't know how to drive. They can walk from home to school to a hospital to grocery everywhere.

[Maggie Nelson]: Roanoke's an amazing town it's been growing a lot so it's just been an amazing four years and a great little town that nobody really knows about.

[Kevin Staggenborg]: I really like the small city feel here in Roanoke.

[Rohit Dasgupta]: whenever I go to Kroger which is just right next to you know right next to our campus over here there's a gro... cashier there called Judy and the first time I met her was during my M1 year my first year. She saw my badge and she said "oh you know are you a medical student" and I said "yeah how'd you know?" and then she was like well you know "I just saw your badge I actually go to you guys' graduation."

[Diana Zychowski, Elizabeth Sugg, Caroline Reist, all talking together]: We know all the people at Kroger. Judy, Judy, Judy, we know Judy. We know Subash in produce shout out to Subash. And the fish guy but yeah everything she's gone now I don't know the fish guy.

[Rohit]: She's like you know "did you take your board exams yet?" and I'm like "I'm studying for them", and then I tell her I passed, so it's just it's been a really nice you know it's been really nice to get to really know the members of the community on a personal level.

[Caroline Reist]: I love everything about Roanoke.  

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[Katie Sourbeer]: The greenway is probably my favorite part of Roanoke. It's really nice to run along the river.

[Scott Figor]: My favorite things to do in Roanoke are being outside.

[Maggie Nelson]: Hanging out with my friends just walking around Crystal Springs.

[Julia Ross]: Gotten really into board games recently to me how that's something else we bring our board together is that what they're called yeah boarders

[Speaker 1]: We love all the different food options here.

[Vivek Singh]: Dillon [Cockrell] and I are on a rec basketball team together in the Roanoke area and we play a lot of teams in this area and currently are three and one.

[Matt Rich]: The formals are great they're always a great time mostly because you get all the classes together I think our first two years we spend a lot of time as just our class together but formals' a lot of fun could you get basically four years of people some people you don't see very often so there's always good times.

[Maggie Nelson]: Stand-up paddleboarding, going to the lake. I mean, there's no no end of things you can do here. 

[Music with visual stating "But there are two favorites: Beer and Hiking"]

Various speakers with visuals of students outside hiking and in breweries:

• You're going to breweries those are a big hot spot in Roanoke right now
• There's fantastic hiking
• Breweries opening up is absolutely fabulous
• Lots of really cool hiking in the area there's Dragon's Tooth, Tinker's Cliffs,  McAfee's [Knob] of course is classic
• There's a lot of breweries coming into town
• There's a lot of breweries that have opened up
• We like hiking
• I love to hike here 
• The first time I ever went on the Appalachian Trail was here which was amazing and with Maggie
• Deschutes and Ballast Point just opened up
• I like to go out to breweries when I'm not studying
• Fourth year so not studying at all, so all the time and
• We actually spent our anniversary hiking up McAfee's Knob which was absolutely wonderful
• Beer
• Hiking
• I love to hike
• Yeah I love to hike too - that's I was gonna say it's very dog-friendly
• Lots of breweries lots of places to go have a drink or two depending on the day yeah
• Sometimes on a warm day in spring you just need something to cool you down and when you run out of water beers always there for you
• I hiked McAfee's Knob once by moonlight with my classmates which is pretty cool
• When you have the free time there's there's never a dull moment here 

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[Caroline Reist]: Everyone says hiking I hiked for the first time in like two years this morning and my thighs are so sore there's no hiking is not my favorite part 

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