-: My name is Kristick William.
I serve as the assistant director for fitness programs
within the recreational sports department
here at Virginia Tech.
We offer a graduate assistant for fitness,
and so we have someone who is in place,
it's a two year position, they come and work with us,
20 to 30 hours a week, they get a full tuition stipend,
and then also a stipend on top of that.
But they basically get to work
as a professional for two years,
and then they go into getting their next job,
whether it's that coordinator or manager job
with some really great experience that you wouldn't get
if you weren't a graduate assistant.