I decided to come here originally
because I was really interested in the
biomedical engineering field I just
recently discovered it was a it was a
thing in general and I really wanted to
pursue it and Michigan Tech was one of
the few colleges at the time that had
that as an option so I decided to come
here and I haven't looked back so I took
kind of a unique path through
um
a normal four-year degree is the typical
route but I did my freshman year here up
at Michigan Tech in 2013 2014 and then
due to financial and other situational
issues I had to stay home after freshman
year and I started working in the
automotive industry just because that's
what's around Metro Detroit you know and
I took part-time classes to transfer
back to Michigan Tech and the whole time
I just knew I had to come back to
Michigan Tech for the program and the
school and it's just it's so different
than any other college I've taken
classes at and it's just they really
care if you show interest in a subject
somebody is there that's also geeked out
about it and interested and wants to
bring you along and show you what they
know and what they've learned and
help you out help you grow in in your
interest so and develop your develop
your major to what suits you the
opportunity to work in a research lab as
an undergrad has made a big impact on me
I mean because you you learn so much
through your classes and your classes
are so hard and you work together to try
to get through them but then
outside of that just even a few hours a
week working in the lab you see the real
world side and you see
professionals who you know who have been
doing this for many years teaching you
everything they know and teaching you
what they learn along the way and
showing you how to ask the right
questions and how to go about doing
things when when there is no
solution book there is no answer we're
trying to find an answer so that's
that's a really cool
um
new way to think that that really helped
me out a lot too so classes at Tech are
I'm not gonna lie they're hard but it's
they're hard classes
that they get you to think a certain way
they get you to break out of your
comfort zone they get you to reach out
because you need help and you reach out
to your classmates and you form bonds
with them and you reach out to
professors and you just show up at
office hours and professors are just
excited that someone came to their
office hours they're willing to help you
out with anything they'll spend the
whole hour with you but
it's it's hard but going through
hard things really build you up as a
student and as a person
to go out into the world and be able to
handle other things that are hard and be
able to reach out the community has been
amazing um
coming back after
my like sixth year Hiatus after freshman
year I didn't know anybody everybody I'd
known
um had gone and graduated so
I was living in an apartment by myself
and then 2020 happened and then we shut
down and then
we I didn't know if we were going to be
back in person in the fall or whatnot so
I kind of waited to the last minute to
find housing
and then
um
I did happen to stumble across like the
week before classes started some one
girl needed a sublease for her
two-bedroom apartment with one roommate
and I'm sitting here going oh boy I'm
about to move in with somebody I don't
even know like what's gonna happen but
um she happened to be when you're ahead
of me in biomed engineering and we
became instant friends and um
she introduced me to all her friends
that we hung out at St Al's University
Parish a lot and now that those kids
there of all different majors and all
different backgrounds are all just the
tightest Community we all help each
other out with anything and everybody
else they were just so welcoming
it was amazing so
even through the cold Winters you know
like you'd think oh it's winter time and
it's three feet of snow outside I don't
want to go out and do anything but the
kids at Michigan Tech are always doing
something there's it's always so Lively
up here in the winter there's always
something to do it's really cool
for someone who's just coming into
college
um
my advice would be to
just
you don't even have to be the most
like outspoken or or extroverted person
but
just show interest just just even talk
to your professor hey you mentioned that
you work on these kind of things I
thought that was really interesting can
you tell me more about it just just ask
questions asking questions showing
interest and I think showing up if
there's an event show up to it if it
sounds mildly interesting to you if
there's a club that sounds interesting
just go check it out bring someone with
you if you're nervous but
just go see what there is because
there's so much here that
you know I wish I got involved in
earlier but there's so many things it's
really cool there's a lot of opportunity
for anything you want to do with your
degree at Michigan Tech so
I just really appreciate that Michigan
Tech is big enough to where there's so
much opportunity and potential for
anything you're interested in pursuing
but it's also small enough to where
you matter you're important and your
interests are heard if you voice them
you just have to
show up