Mechanical Engineering
and
Master's of Business Administration

Ketchikan, AK

Junior and graduate student

I was born and raised in Ketchikan, Alaska. I am a fourth generation Alaskan and a first generation college student. I really enjoy exploring and having adventures. I work really hard at staying busy.

Two reasons:

1. Financially, as an Alaska resident there is no more affordable place to get a college education.
2. The huge amount of undergraduate research opportunities.

The in-between size: I come from a small town where everyone knows everyone's business and UAF isn't that way, BUT it is small enough to know most of the student body and to build great friendship of diverse and interesting people.

I participate in a lot of different groups on campus: Honors Program, New Student Orientation, Honors Student Advisory Council, Aurora Borealis Rotaract Club, United Campus Ministries, Society of Women Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Society of Petroleum Engineers.

My senior year of high school, I would have told you I would rather do just about anything but stay in state for college, but I was persuaded to give UAF a chance, and I have never ever regretted that decision. So, I would say to be more open minded about opportunities.

I work for the Alaska Space Grant Program on the Alaska Research CubeSat (a nanosatellite) as a part of the Structure, Mechanical and Thermal team. I have designed components and am now in the process of physically machining many of the parts of the satellite, that we will be launching in fall 2014.

Find a job that challenges and interests me.

Southern France