-: I think it was definitely allowing me
to pursue my own interests.
So my master's thesis was actually a
full downtown plan for my hometown of Jasper, Indiana.
I worked with Harri Ageg.
He is a genius at master planning
and neighborhood development, so we looked
at how can I be strategic and make my small hometown
a really vibrant place that people my age
would want to go back to, cause my ultimate goal
would be to someday move back to my hometown
and impact it positively, but there are a lot
of barriers that make moving back
to a small town not the greatest place to be.
So I had the flexibility of
not only choosing what my master's thesis would be,
but taking classes to lead up to that.
So being able to do that as a capstone project
and have that lead into a job was just,
follow what you care about, follow your passion,
and hopefully things follow through from there.