>> I came in as a freshman for Douglas residential college in fall of 2007.
I came in undeclared even though I knew that I really wanted
to do something in the communication field.
I kind of fell in love with PR, took a bunch of classes.
Have to give a little shout out to professor Grasso.
Had him for numerous classes, still try to stay in touch with him.
He kind of taught me -- well, he confirmed what I knew that I really wanted to do.
But he also showed me how much fun and how much work PR really could be
since he had worked on the other side of it as well.
And then while I was at Rutgers, I did a lot on campus.
So, I was the president of the Douglas student recruitment network
which hosted all the prospective students for either classroom visits or overnight visits.
We also ran the open houses, overnight weekends, and the large-scale parent weekends.
I also did Douglas greeters which were the students who helped incoming freshman
on move-in day as we helped them and their families kind of get settled in the dorms.
I was a red pine ambassador which is the tour guide on Douglas for a while.
And then I also was a Rutgers' new student orientation leader.
And if you look at all four of those extracurricular activities, they all kind of fit
into that branding Rutgers to the outside world and I just found my niche.
I loved kind of sharing with incoming students
or prospective students and especially their families.
I don't know what it was about dealing with parents but I just loved it.
About the benefits of Douglas, about the benefits of Rutgers.
You know, why they should choose here.
And so I just knew then that PR was probably the best place for me.
If I could represent Rutgers and love it,
I could probably represent a lot of other things too.