My family is very large, comparable to the sizes of our hearts. I was raised in Warrenton, Virginia, a very large county of mostly farmland My Mom was born and raised in Front Royal, Virginia and my Dad was is from Annandale, Virginia. They met in the middle and decided to settle down in Fauquier County with my sixteen year old sister and I. The house that I grew up in was a small rambler next to my two best...

I am looking forward to developing as an independent person in Blacksburg. It is time for me to go and apply all of the life lessons I have learned thus far. The idea of attending new classes, joining clubs, and developing Hokie spirit excites me. I am ready to make decisions on my own and be pushed outside of my comfort zone. I also know that attending college will motivate me to set the bar for myself even higher. I...

At Virginia Tech we are always striving to “invent the future”. My friends and I decided that applying for a research grant to construct a real live time machine would be the most epic way to express our passion. With many failed ideas and reconstructions we eventually assembled our prototype and got the machine up and running. I was overjoyed since being the first in the world to do so, and decided to go first. BAM. It is 1995, however I...

Am I fluent in French? Not in the slightest, however, I am sitting at the table next to an eloquent speaking Parisian. The language seems so fluid but the barrier is definite, a brick wall separating our tables. I once ran across Ibn Batutta’s quote, “ I believe that traveling leaves us all speechless, but turns us into storytellers”. Why travel? I agree with Ibn. Well traveling is not the ability to find oneself, but instead, a gift to the...

Fraternities and sororities are really big here at Tech, but you...

My favorite course has been Accounting. I heard horror stories about the course going into it. I was prepared...

Tenacious, Vivacious,...

I would definitely start earlier laying out which...

Virginia Tech is an amazing school full of opportunity. Upperclassmen receive wonderful jobs due to the staff here on...