-: It definitely brought me out of my bubble.
I came from Duluth, Minnesota
and I moved down to Minneapolis to kinda expand
and just see what's out there.
You know, I love UMD, great school,
but it was in my hometown and I had to branch out.
So the university really took me
the first step down that path.
And I started my university career going
for mechanical engineering and the more I got into it,
the more I found that it just wasn't for me.
I didn't find it as interesting as the first
couple of courses were
and that's where I went to my counselor
and started talking about possible options
and he pointed me to the college
of continuing education and construction management.
I'm using the general physics-based knowledge
to build things but it's a lot more management
and communication with others
and you see a lot more people on your day to day work
and that's what I was looking for really.
The university helped me find what I was looking for
when I didn't really know coming in.