-: So I'd say my NJIT experience was quite unique.
And I'm very thankful for that.
So, at least when I was here at school,
we had a very small percentage of students
who actually lived on campus and were residents,
and so that all of a sudden
sort of made my experience unique,
and so I really appreciate the ability
to be part of a community.
Certainly, being a resident
and part of a university allowed me to do that.
There's a sense of NJIT is still meaningful to me today.
And you don't appreciate that 'til it's on a resume
and you're talking about something you did 10 years ago.
And so why it's important to me today,
I think, has a lot to do with reputation and brand.
So we talk about the STEM background
being a foot in the door.
So NJIT has a good STEM reputation,
so that gets me a foot in the door.
And I think the better the university grows
and the better its reputation it gets,
the better it looks on my resume.
And I don't control any of that necessarily,
other than being part of the network,
but we're all ambassadors.
So I know what I appreciated while I was in school
was the flexibility and the mentorship to switch
from a medical focus to an engineering focus.
I appreciated the relationships and the friendships
I've built and being part of a community,
and now, as an alumni, I appreciate that I'm an ambassador,
but also that there's thousands of other ambassadors
that are gonna make me look better
as long as they're also doing a good job.