Hello everybody, I'm Nick. I'm a Navy veteran here at a Montgomery College let
me tell you about some of the resources that I utilized with combat to college.
Hey everybody, I'm Nick, I came here active duty I was transferring from Marine
infantry in Hawaii, all the way to blue side Navy shore duty at Walter Reed, and
I immediately knew that I wanted to take advantage of a shore duty unit hit
Google and immediately searched for local, you know colleges that I could
attend to in-person and evenings and Montgomery College came up really happy
that I came here. I was in line at the registrar's office to pay for my classes
and lady working the front desk saw that I was military I think saw my ID and
told me right across the hall was, combat to college and to ask what applying for
a scholarship immediately went back and talked to Joanna and was able to get a Kindle
combat to college scholarship. You know living on my own a big thing is always
finding a place to study. I have to get out of my house that's my place to relax
and be an active duty working during the day, working during business hours, I wasn't
able to take care, advantage of all the opportunities that combat to college has
but, having that veterans lounge where it's just you know me, or other veterans
just getting busy away at work really made that into my dojo where I was, not
procrastinating and really focused. I was, doing the work that used to take me you
know two or three hours in an hour, hour and a half. You know getting in and
getting out not having those distractions of people on their phone.
That helped out a lot, the veteran's lounge also sometimes has you know,
snacks and stuff too so that's always some nice little quiet encouragement
that really just makes the place feel like home that you know you don't have
to study in the halls, or you know fighting grinds in the Mokpo to get
through you know the dog days of a semester. From being in the military you
know, when you see somebody else in class and, you kind of know that veteran bond
kind of that nod that you, understand each other can talk that same language
that's something that I, you know learned by coming here and by being involved
with combat to college program it's always cool to see different people's
experiences every time somebody comes in, it's always that connection that
veterans have and, being able to hear other people's
experiences and hear other people's majors and all the other opportunities
at the school. The beginning English, and the beginning college math that I
was taking was, set me up for success. Soon I kind of set my goals a little
higher, and even though beat wanna go pre-med and be a doctor physician is
already pretty high goals I, wanted to get into some of the more prestigious
institutions. Renaissance Scholars, is an Honors Program where you, get a
scholarship that take seven credits of classes it's an interdisciplinary little
dyad, where you take kind of two classes and are blended, with one it's it's a
very cool experience and with a lot of student input, and you know leadership in
mind at seven credits that could really help ,push somebody over the edge to make
their goals got a full scholarship to Cornell University, and now I don't have
to use my GI Bill until until medical school. My major that I'm transferring
into is, human biology health and society. After that, I plan to go to medical
school, who grinds it out there hopefully I can get into physical medicine and
rehabilitation, as residency specialty. I'm setting my sights high and I really
want to work with the the disabled population. I got inspired to do that,
while working here at Walter Reed. If you're a veteran or active-duty member coming to
Montgomery College, I strongly recommend that you stop by the combat to college
offices. Send Jason and Joanna an email and see what they have to help you out.
They're gonna help you cut through all the paperwork, and see what other type of
scholarship opportunities, or or social opportunities, and community
opportunities there are. Make sure that you're using all the campus resources
and you know really just kind of take this weight off of this academic journey
that you're going through, and help you have a better time that you know you can
do more of what you want to do. No matter what campus you're attending the combat to
college has a location just, check out the URL right here and see what they can
offer you.