Just seven months ago, skateboarding for Towson University student Amanda Flores was only something she wished she could do. Now, it is one of her main hobbies that she dedicates countless hours to as she works to improve her skills. What was once just a dream, is now a lifestyle.
The hashtag with the positive message #GreatThingsAhead shown on the top of signs pointing towards detours due to construction is a little contradicting of the feelings students have about all of it. Even though the construction shows an effort to expand and improve Towson’s campus, it is currently acting as just a hassle and inconvenience for students as they make their way to class.
I talked with Towson University student Nicole Damico about her feelings towards the construction, and how it is impacting her.
As she sat in the Starbucks on campus and signed up for classes for the upcoming spring semester, Towson University junior Alex Brown reminisced on the last time she went through this process for the current fall semester. This past July, she walked into her orientation for transfer students excited to start her journey at Towson, and looked forward to registering for classes in her major, Early Childhood Education. But as she sat down in the computer lab with a small group of other transfer students to register, the feeling of excitement quickly turned to that of stress as she saw how few classes were available to the last of the students making their schedules, and how many of her credits from community college that she thought would transfer over, didn’t.
“When I had to sign up for my classes I was the last of the bunch so I got the worst picks,” Brown said. “There were so many classes that I needed that I couldn’t take and the times were all over the place.”
Most students enter their freshman year of college with an idea of what they want to pursue as a future career, in the place where they plan to make it happen. For some students everything goes as first planned, but for others, they find themselves choosing to scrap their original plan and switch it up. I talked with Towson University student Tony Petro about his decision to change his major from Statistics to Journalism, and make the move from Virginia Tech to Towson.
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