First-Year Students

[Cymbals in rhythm music crescendo to opening of video.]

Text on screen: First-Year Success

[Image of Interdisciplinary Science Building, walkway and campus light pole flags with Webster University logo.]

Text on screen: CB BROWN, ACTING MAJOR

[Brown is in University Center’s Sunnen Lounge, with windows along the side wall in the background.]

Brown: Webster has been awesome for me this first year. It feels very welcoming. The size feels very inclusive. It feels like a home.

[New students and Webster students in team shirts, helping with move-in days at beginning of the semester. Big boxes full of dorm room supplies in bins being moved and carried into the housing buildings.]

[Several images of smiling students outside on beautiful campus flash across screen.]

Text on screen: Very inclusive

[One student walking on sidewalk through the central quad area. Trees and grass very green and thick. Student has a backpack on. There are Webster University flags on the light pole fixtures along the walkway with the words: Go! Go! Gorloks.]

Text on Screen: There’s so much to do

[A professor and a student work together in one of the labs in Browning Hall. There is a lot of equipment, beakers, measuring tools, plastic bags and plastic boxes full of chemistry supplies on a long table. Both professor and student have on gloves while handling their specimens. The walls are lined with windows, and a parking lot can be seen through the glass.]

Text on Screen: Samantha

Text on Screen: International Relations

[Image of Samantha talking to the camera and smiling.]

Samantha: There's just so much to do on campus and so many classes going on, and just navigating college life is such an exciting experience because you're really on your own but that's the good part, right?

[Group of students sitting together outside listening to each other’s stories. Everyone is smiling.]

[Two students walking and talking outside on campus.]

[Three students walking together outside Browning Hall.]

[Three students taking a selfie outside.]

[Two students talking at an outside orientation activity outside on campus.]

[Brown is again in Sunnen Lounge in the University Center.]

Brown: None of us know what we're doing. We're all kind of coming into this new world together and as a first year, I feel, I feel like Webster's like the perfect freshman school. It's small. It's easy to get used to.

Text on screen: It’s small

The food is pretty decent. Like even like the meal plan is good to learn how to budget.

[20 or more students enjoying meals and talking in one of the eateries on campus.]

[Samantha talking, while facing camera.]

Samantha: I originally wasn't planning on staying in town for college, but staying in St Louis was probably the best decision that I could have made because I feel at home here. Webster's a really great area for college because it's small.

[Footage of professor talking to a student at a little table in an academic building hallway. Laptop is open on table.]

[Footage of student walking on campus with Webster University banners flying in the wind and sunlight from the sun setting on one side.]

[A long line of students walk along the side of an academic building, talking and looking at their cell phones.]

Text on screen: I feel at home here

[Aerial drone shot of campus facing southeast. Part of Loretto Hall, Webster Hall and Maria Hall are in the foreground. Big Bend Boulevard and Edgar Road and a parking lot are beyond them. Sverdrup Academic Building is seen across the street. The Loretto Hilton Center, the Community Music School, the East Academic Building and the Interdisciplinary Building can be seen next. Beyond that are Emerson Library, the University Center, the student housing apartments and housing dorms, the student club house and the four-story parking garage that houses Public Safety, the bookstore and other academic advising offices, surrounded by a lot of trees and grass. Some trees are turning colors as the fall season gets underway.

[Samantha is talking, while facing camera.]

[Three students walk to and from classes between the East Academic Building and the Community Music School. More students are off in the distance, also walking across campus.]

Samantha: There are a lot of like shops and restaurants around that you can walk to but also, it's more of a quiet neighborhood.

[A student is swinging in a hammock. One student is sitting in the grass. Two students are standing in the group as they all talk and visit outside. There are books, cell phones, purses and bags on the ground around them.]

Brown: I've met some of the best people in my whole life here. Yeah, so my first-year experience has been amazing.

Footage from the top of Emerson Library looks down on the quad area where more than 100 students have gathered to form a large “W” in the lawn. The Gorlok mascot stands in front of them. They are all looking up at the camera cheering and waving.

[Applause rings out and gets louder.]

[Bouncy instrumental music plays as Webster logo appears.]

Text of Screen: Webster University

Text on screen: webster.edu