Maggie Snee '25, a sophomore at the time, sits between the two experienced senior leaders of a university podcast that's now entering its fifth season.

She's about to audition, and if she's nervous, it doesn't show. Because without any tremor or trepidation in her voice, she looks back and forth between them both and says, “So when do we get started?”

This is the same fearless voice you'll hear as the new host of Major Insight, the university podcast that's on a mission to help college students everywhere find their place and purpose on campus.

“I had listened to Major Insight my freshman year,” Snee said, “and I heard people talking about the exact same things that I was experiencing – a feeling like I had no idea what I was doing and I felt very lost. And it's what inspired me to get on top of my education, to learn about how college works, and what the next few years of my life will look like. And now I am the host, which is so cool!”

But this full circle moment is just the latest in a long line of activities and accolades that makes Snee one of the more engaged students on Miami's campus. As a Zoology major also studying Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), she strives to embrace everything college can offer.

Today, Snee is involved with the Office of Residence Life as a resident assistant (RA), and she's part of Zero Waste Oxford, which hosts Saturday morning trash pickups around town, as well as the popular pop-up thrift shop in the Armstrong Student Center.

As a member of Miami Activities and Programming (MAP), the student-run organization that hosts entertaining student-focused events, she also helps keep campus life packed with fun and excitement every semester.

This past summer, her passion for GIS landed her an internship in her hometown of Troy, Ohio, where she updated digital maps of water, sewer, and storm lines for the city's IT department. And last spring, she received a Library Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence for a Geography project focused on the importance of tree cover in New York City.

“I want to do as much as possible because I'm only going to be 20 and in college once,” Snee said. “I view every semester as a chance to make my experience at college all the richer. So I want to fill my time doing things that bring me joy and that help me as a student and as a person.”

But it's not just about her experiences either.

Because this is the same personal philosophy that drives her role in Residence Life, where she strives to make other students feel welcomed and engaged as a resident assistant.

“Maggie Snee is super passionate about the work she does and about supporting students,” said Jackie Weisenfelder, a resident director in Miami's Office of Residence Life. “As an RA, she jumped right in and really leaned into listening to what students wanted. She makes sure everyone is having a good experience, and she makes sure she's having a good experience while doing it too, which is something I find very honorable.”

This fearless passion to connect with others, her ability to make students feel supported, and her desire to inspire her peers to embrace campus life are also what make Snee the perfect host of Major Insight, where listeners can hear her lead honest and open conversations about what makes college so special.

“It's such a privilege to have access to higher education,” Snee said. “College helped me realize that I have such a wide range of resources available to me, and not just academically or socially, but to go out into the real world and have a real career and to progress as a person. I have so many opportunities here. And taking advantage of it all, as much as I possibly can, feels like I'm doing right by myself.

“The people I've met and the things I've been able to do – I would have missed it all if I didn't go to Miami.”

Listen to Maggie's debut on Major Insight, The fulfillment of forging your own path, wherever podcasts are found.