Frontier talks sets record attendance

The Student Center Ballroom transformed into CSC’s version of a “TED Talk” stage Tuesday night as four speakers spoke during the “Small Change…Big Difference” Frontier Talk put on by senior class CAP-469D Weight of the Nation.

Around 45 students attended the event, according to Dr. Josh Ellis, instructor of CAP-469D. He said that this year is the record amount of people for the Frontier Talks.

The lectures were centered around how small changes in finance, mental health, and physical well-being can make a big difference in changing to a healthier lifestyle. 

The speakers of the night included; Dustin Luper, head coach of the CSC rodeo team; Christina Winters and Robin Bila, counselors at CSC; and Mike Vogl, Mathematical Sciences professor.

During Luper’s discussion on physical well-being, he asked the question, “what is success to you?” He said that success is different to everyone and we are the one that determines if we succeed. Bila and Winters talked about three different types of stress, acute stress, episodic acute stress and chronic stress. Bila said that it is very normal to have stress, how we deal with it, is the next part. She said that first recognizing that we are stressed and then asking ourselves why we are stressed is important to overcoming it. 

Vogl finished up CSC’s version of “TED Talk” talking about how important it is to start investing at a young age. 

“Small sacrifices right now can have a huge impact on your life later on. It is so easy to do it if you start now,” Vogl said.