All about me!

My story…hmmm, let me think….

I am originally from Boise, Idaho, and graduated in 2009 from Boise State University, in Drafting Design and Technology. A year before graduation; the market took a crap and the drafting field seemed to suffer in Idaho. I really enjoyed the mechanic side of the field so I started looking into Mechanical Engineering schools. I had applied and was accepted into the University of North Dakota, but a month before I graduated the town of Fargo flooded. After really researching the town, I found out that Fargo floods pretty much every year. Part of the student’s life every year is to help throw sandbags. I very quickly decided against moving up there. The next closest town was Bozeman.

We (wife and two girls) moved up here, and have been here ever since. I enjoyed the Mechanical Engineering side, but it truly isn’t a program for anyone who has a life. It is one of those programs that wants you to live, eat, and breathe homework. I don’t mind a challenge, but refuse to push my family away so I can spend all semester working on static formulas on beams and cables. I was unhappy with what I was doing and told my wife I was either going to drop out or had to change my major. So last year, I ran the gauntlet of paper work and signatures, and made it official that my new major is English with writing option, and a Minor in Native American Studies. My goal is to become a technical writer working with the Montana reservation colleges writing grants. Even if that is just a more ‘freelance’ job, I will still look for work as a tech writer, anywhere the need arises.

Along the way I have met a lot of great professors and added many people to my ‘friend’ list. I had the chance to meet Jon Tester in my last NAS class....interesting to say the least (and I am a Democrat).

I have loved the transition; just kick myself in the butt for not pursuing the English major to begin with. Oh well, isn’t life all about finding out who we are and what we want to become?