Over covid I watched every season of the CBS Show Survivor. It's a show that I love and when deciding where to go to college, a major factor was whether the school had a Survivor Club or not. Unfortunately, UT was only had a top 10 CS program and was way cheaper than every other option and no Survivor Club. So my Sophomore year I started one myself and it has been the most fun I've had in college.
Season 1 started with only myself, Joyce, and Jonathan on the crew. We got a group of 12 students to agree to play on a low-budget rag-tag season and it was a bumpy but well worth it ride. No one on the cast or even crew would have met each other outside of Survivor, all contestants were different majors and we had a wide spread of grades, it was truely a microcosm of UT.
Season 2 was our first season with a reasonably sized crew, we jumped from starting season 1 with 3 crew members to starting season 2 with 21. We had over 100 total applicants and narrowed it down to 12 for a wild west styled season that saw the Tumbleweeds take on the Dustdevils
We have not filmed this season yet though we are very excited, our crew is growing still and we have so many passionate individuals involved