"I decided I would be part of the solution." I wanted to be an active participant in campus life and take advantage of the full experience Wooster has to offer. Rather than sit back and complain about this or that as college students sometimes tend to do, I decided I would be part of the solution by getting involved in as many organizations that have influence as I could. Consequently, I'm active in more than a half-dozen different organizations from the Black Student Association to the Student Government Association to the Wooster Christian Fellowship. Even though there are a lot of time demands, I've been able to manage my extracurricular activities and my academic work.
"They invariably told me it would be an excellent choice." My decision to choose a liberal arts college was based on advice I received from prominent business leaders. I met the president of the Make A Wish Foundation during my junior year in high school. He's an extremely successful businessman, and he recommended that I look at smaller schools with liberal arts traditions and strong personal attention. Then, during the summer before my senior year of high school, I had an opportunity to work as an intern at the Fannie Mae in Washington, and whenever I mentioned Wooster, the CEOs where I worked would invariably tell me that it was a great school and would be an excellent choice.
"It offers practical experience." As a trustee of the Jenny Student Aid Fund, I work with other students to manage a stock portfolio which has $200,000 of the College's endowment. This isn't play money, so it's a much different challenge than I'd had. It offers practical experience, which is what college is supposed to be about. I've learned a lot about the stock market and investments as a result.
"Majors get individual attention." When I came to Wooster I was definitely heading toward engineering but with a concentration in computers. Eventually, I began to move toward the computer science department. It's a small department, which means the majors get individual attention from the faculty. At the same time, it's very forward-looking in terms of the programming languages that we are using.
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