I chose to come to A&M Galveston because it's the only school in
Texas that actually offers Marine
Biology as a major
and so I look around Texas looking for
schools and I didn't really find one that fit
well for me I found a family
I found a family that I never found in
high school I love
the traditions here that just interconnect everyone
on campus whether it's muster and saying
here for the fallen Aggies
it's going to Kyle Field as the twelfth man
 standing for them in the football
games and just
being there as an Aggie and so seeing
everyone connect
on this campus in being such a small
campus to
is another thing I love about it because
I can literally walk around campus and
see
people every day that I know and it's not just a
huge campus and it's not
I'm not going to get lost in the flow of 
people like I go up to
faculty all-time I'm like hey how's it going
like how's your day going there like
it's been great Katie like thanks for
asking cuz they know me by name and so I
love the small class sizes I love the
family I've made here
whenever I go home to Indiana I see people
who
go up to the major university up there
and I just hear stories about how
just their its kind everyone for themselves
I had a friend who went to one of the big
universities up there and she was coming
home every weekend crying to her mom about how
no one cared for her and it was just everyone
for themselves
down here one of the first thing I did
when I came to orientation down here
was it was like your one of us now, you're
family
Everyone was just great
everyone's looking out for you, looking out for your well-being
and being an Aggie is basically one big
family
For me an Aggie is selfless service
Going out and helping someone else, even if it may be a little inconvenient
it's helping out someone else is
definitely top of the list and
being there for other Aggies, it's an
Aggie network now I mean I'm not
alone I've got a family of Aggies, I can go
from
go to Italy and as soon as I see one of these Aggie Rings it's
boom I know that I've got family right their. 
So one thing that I really love about
the campus is that because its smaller
size you actually get the opportunity
to establish relationships with your
professors and your peers
I have a lot of friends at much larger
universities who don't get that
opportunity like a couple weeks ago
I just swung by my professor's office to
chat and we ended up going out to lunch
I thought that was really cool and
because of the small campus size
you know walking around I don't see
anyone who I've never seen before
so it's kinda that close-knit small-town
type atmosphere
and I find that appealing. I expected
there to be a lot more people, a lot more
students like
I expected to be a lot more crazy but I
found it to be
very very, a very good learning
environment for me
Small classes my professors will talk
to me every day
If I need help with anything, I can go
directly to my professors
I'll chose Texas A&M at Galveston 
because
I was hoping to pursue a career
in a field that's a very lucrative and
rewarding after I graduate
after graduation, I'm going to take my license
test and I'm hoping to become
a third mate aboard a merchant ship. The
Academy
at Texas A&M at Galveston is a good
one, it's growing
I've met many wonderful people
and built lifelong relationships with
a lot of
students that have come into the Academy with me. You got to
actually do some hands on training
steering the ship
actually doing like navigation watches
and chart plots and different things
like that.
biggest thing that I found that I
absolutely love about going to Texas A&M
Galveston
as the closeness and the brotherhood
among the students and especially the
cadets
for me personally, everybody interacts on such a close level
for school events such as muster, midnight yell
just everyday activities you see the
same kids every day, In all your classes
for all four years so we get to be
really close
For me probably the biggest thing I'm
gonna take away from going to school
here is the leadership experience
and communication skills because it's
such a small campus you have to interact
with
you know couple hundred people every day
and
like for me the leadership in the corp of cadets
everything else here that I do like
that's really going help me on a ship
for later in my career
the Aggie Ring I once you reach a
certain number credit hours at the
University it's generally when you're
going into your senior year
you get to buy your Aggie Ring and it's a
status symbol and
to me it symbolizes everything you've
gone through
at school to get there and it's an 
incredible honor and
the Aggie ring network outside of school
is generally you know you go to work you
see someone with your class ring, you have
an instant connection with professionals and
just people in general, it's a great way
to get to know each other
I get my ring in 15 days I'm so excited
