1. Sam Bowman, Creative Writing Major “I’m mostly looking forward to movies that are coming out, like I’m really excited for Dead Pool and the Captain America Civil War—and then I’m not super looking forward to the election season, honestly, but I’m kind of interested to see how it turns out. Whenever that comes around, I normally just end up getting tired of hearing about the different people that are running for president. I do [vote], this will be the first time I can vote for the presidential election. . . I have plans to go visit my girlfriend for spring break. She goes to college down in Georgia, so we don’t get to see each other a whole lot except for whenever we’re on break, and fortunately both of our breaks are right on top of each other. So I’m going to go hang out with her for a week, maybe two, probably the whole break, honestly. The big plan for that is going to Harry Potter world, going to Florida.”
2. Jess Burgmeier, General Liberal Arts and Sciences Major “Graduating in the fall! I’ve been here for about four [years] because I transferred from Ohio University, and then I changed my major and then I decided I didn’t know what I specifically wanted, so I just [went] with the general [degree]. I’ve just never been a school person really, I’m not a good test taker. I’m the person that sits in the class and I take in the information but I’m not a test taker, never been good at it. I’d rather take reading classes, over math and biology and science, anything. . . I got a promotion at work, I work at Teeter’s Chiropractic. I was a receptionist and now I’m sharing the office manager responsibilities. The pay raise is just a bonus but [I like] getting to actually delegate what I want to do to the office to improve, instead of being the little voice in the corner that gets heard, but nothing gets done.”
3. Joshua Konicki, Architectural Technology Major “Graduating, and I plan on transferring to another college, I was thinking about UC. I have a job now, I work at a drug store, but I want to move on—maybe not [work] the first year, but maybe, it just depends what happens. I want to be licensed [in architechture]. There’s residential and commercial [options], and commercial has more money, but I would really like residential, so I don’t know yet. . . I also take classes at UD, just band activities. The band, they always take a trip for Thanksgiving, and I hope to make that trip. Just last year they went to Florida, but my friend says sometimes they go to Hawaii, but I don’t know next season.”
4. Brandi Peterson, Applied Science Major “Graduating! I finish this semester with my Associate’s degree. Moving forward, I actually hope to teach at Sinclair in the automotive department. [I will transfer to] Wright State, I’ll be doing my bachelor’s degree through them. I guess I’ll be having a [graduation] party, but nothing exciting. Just school and work, is all my life is. I do a lot of side work on vehicles—it’s not an official job. If I’m not at school, doing schoolwork, I’m working or sleeping. I will probably be teaching in the automotive department, hopefully, as long as the school sees fit to hire me. I’ve already started the process on that, so hopefully I’ll get that job. . . I would say [I am proud of myself], I’m a minority in [automotive programs] and I hope to expand and help welcome other females and other minorities to show that yes, we can do it, I was able to do it so you can too.”
Reporting and photos by
Maggie Stacey
Staff Writer