People at KSC

Hometown: Lancaster, Pa.

Major: Sustainable Product Design and Innovation

What I like about my major: It will help me incorporate my desire to make things and save the Earth.

Faculty mentors: Rick Foley and Lisa Hix both desire the success of the new sustainable product design and innovation major. I dig that.

Favorite class: Inventing Your Own Way with Rick Foley

Activities: Environmental Outing Club and Campus Ecology

Things I do with my friends: Snowboard, rock climb, hike Mt. Monadnock to watch the sun rise, swim in the Ashuelot in the middle of the night

Favorite book: A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson

Favorite film: Hook

Favorite music: Radiohead

I picked KSC because: I wanted access to the mountains to snowboard and hike as much as I could. Also, I have family in the area.

Personal and career goals: I’d like to explore life to its fullest and be happy.

I wrote my application essay about: My little brother and me

I recommend KSC because: When the weather is right, this town can be one of the most beautiful places one will ever see. There is a lot of potential to partake in outdoor recreation; you just need to have the desire to explore.