| Why did you join an Honors organization? | |
| Coming from a very small school that I was actively involved in I wanted to make sure that I could find my niche to get involved with as well. I quickly realized that the Honors community was like none other and I jumped into all the different student groups like Peer Allies Through Honors, Honors Council and Honors in Business Association! | |
| What else are you involved in on campus? | |
| I am a Peer Advisor for the School of Business Office of Undergraduate Advising. In this role I help answer any questions that might arise during a student’s academic planning. We help to ensure people achieve minors, graduate on time, get involved on campus, and are able to go abroad if they wish. It is a very rewarding role and one that I have had since sophomore year. I also was a coordinator for Peer Allies Through Honors since my second semester freshman year. In this role I helped to run the organization’s pairing program that welcomes freshmen to the University as well as host events to encourage the relationship. | |
| What do you enjoy most about UConn? | |
| My favorite part about UConn is the chocolate lover’s ice cream in the dining halls. But if I had to pick a second favorite part it is the people I have gotten to meet. Throughout these past four years I have had the opportunity to meet people from all over the United States and even internationally. I have learned so much through everyone else’s experiences and points of view. I have definitely learned just as much in the classroom as I have from the people around campus and I am extremely grateful for them all! | |
| What are your career aspirations? | |
| Right now I would say my career aspirations are just to work with people and help them grow and develop. I thoroughly enjoy seeing people succeed and any type of role I wind up in will revolve around that. After I graduate in May, I will be beginning a new role as District Manager Trainee for Aldi. I am super excited to learn the in’s and out’s of the operation and then after one year of training I will lead three to five stores in the New England region. Hopefully I will be able to see my stores succeed and develop the employees as we work as a team to help Aldi thrive. Potentially after five years in this role I would be able to take this position to another country and lead stores there. | |
| Previous internship(s) and brief summary | |
| Freshmen and sophomore year I worked as a camp counselor and ice cream scooper so don’t stress if you don’t have a formal internship everyone! You will still learn valuable skills that you can bring with you in life. Junior year I interned for Abbott Nutrition in Columbus, Ohio as an internal sales intern. I worked on the sales operation team helping improve the efficiency of their field sales force. It was an amazing experience and was recently ranked the #1 Healthcare Internship Program by Vault.com for all the value that it provides to its interns. | |
| Fun Fact About Yourself | |
| I can name all 197 countries! (But give me like 5 minutes to refresh beforehand) | |