Students lined up for hours on Tuesday, Jan. 24, for the chance to see Josh Peck speak live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Texas A&M University Kingsville\u2019s Student Engagement and Campus Life (SECL) continued its annual lectureship series bringing once again a prominent actor to campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peck, most known for his character on the popular Nickelodeon series \u201cDrake and Josh,\u201d spoke to students about a range of topics, from rock bottom to new beginnings, life changes and career highlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peck says he speaks at a few colleges a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI like getting out of the bubble of L.A. I like getting to go to the parts of the U.S. that normally I wouldn\u2019t get to go, meeting beautiful people that are smart and can give you also a different perspective on life. I feel lucky that I get to do that,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lecture began at 7 p.m. and was held in a Q&A fashion. Those in the audience had the opportunity to submit questions that would be asked in the later part of the lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As SECL announced this year\u2019s lectureship series guest speaker, opportunities for students to win meet and greet tickets opened up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The meet and greet took place at 5:45 p.m. in the Ben Bailey Art Gallery where a handful of students had the opportunity to meet Peck, take a picture with him and get his autograph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe was like one of my biggest inspirations growing up; I watched him all the time, it\u2019s like a very like bonded thing, even though I\u2019ve never actually met him, which is so weird but like yeah, it\u2019s just crazy. I\u2019m very excited to meet him,\u201d Alexis Cantu, who attended the meet and greet, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cantu often got in fights with her siblings over watching \u201cDrake and Josh\u201d and contemplated saying his famous catch phrase \u201chug me brother\u201d when she met him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n