My student experience has really changed my life.
My time at NC State has really changed my life.
I love this university so much because of all the great things it's given me.
It's helped me to grow incredibly as a leader.
It's helped me to grow in the way that I think about things, the way that I do things,
the way that I'm able to-everything from where my priorities are
to focusing on how do I go forward in the future.
I want to have an impact on this country and this world.
When I came to NC State I wanted to be an engineer, I wanted to graduate, move back to where I was from,
buy a house, get married, have kids, maybe run for school board;
nothing really more.
But coming to NC State and seeing-. Bill Friday I think said it best.
At the time when he gave his graduation speech he said thirty thousand North Carolinians live and work in poverty,
paying taxes to support your education.
Now what are you going to do for them? That's something I really take to heart,
that everybody's paid into my college tuition,
that I want to give back to this university, to this state, to the world,
that so much has been given to me, and that's kind of my philosophy of life now, is that I want to help others succeed.
I want to see this university continue to grow.
I want to continue to give back because so much has been given to me.
I was able to come here on pretty much a full ride between two scholarships
and I spent six or seven years here as a student
and just learned so much. It's really made me the person that I am today.