Student Spotlights

Hometowns: Atlanta, GA and San Diego, CA BA in Theater Performance, BA in Spanish, and Certificates in Musical Theatre, Spanish-English Translation, and Business Spanish 2025 How did you first get interested in theatre? My introduction to performing actually happened by chance! I wasn’t the most outgoing when I was younger, but my grandma, who sang […]

Hometown: Gastonia, NC BA in Theater and BA in History 2024 How did you become interested in theater?  Honestly watching the TV show Friends as a kid and seeing Joey as an actor made me want to do it initially. What kind of career do you hope to have? I either want to be an actor or […]

Hometown: Charlotte, by way of Cairo, Egypt Bachelor of Arts in Architecture 2024 Give some general information about yourself: how did you become interested in architecture? I was initially uninterested due to a misconception about architecture being math dominated, but I was proven wrong when I joined the ACE (Architecture, Construction, and Engineering) club and […]

Hometown: Columbia, SC BA in Architecture 2024 How did you become interested in Architecture? I grew up building things with my father, as he was a carpenter. After high school, I joined the Columbia Fire Department and was a fireman for 10 years. During that time, I also ran a handyman company and did lots of renovation […]

Hometown: New Bern, NC Instrumental Music Education Major 2024  How did you first get interested in music? Music has always been a point of interest for me. However, my interest really blossomed in middle school when I decided to play the flute. As I continued playing, my love for music grew, and once I switched to oboe, […]

Hometown: Penza, Russia BA in Architecture 2025 How did you first get interested in Architecture? I first became interested in architecture in middle school when I began thinking about what future career I wanted to pursue. I’ve always been drawn to the arts and mathematics, so I decided that architecture would be an ideal combination of those two. While in […]

Hometown: Charlotte, NC Degree: BM in Composition, Applied Instrument: Cello Graduation Year: 2025  How did you first get interested in music? While I taking a computer class in high school, I was assigned a project. I then decided to base the whole assignment off of music instruments to teach people about the unique sounds and history of each […]

Hometown: Charlotte, NC Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and a minor in Urban Studies & Geography 2024 How did you first get interested in Architecture? My interest in architecture first started when I started to travel often to the city of Los Angeles in California.  I began to compare the different architectural qualities between Los […]

Hometown: Concord, NC Bachelor of Music, Concentration in Jazz Studies 2025 How did you first get interested in music? I grew up with a family that was very passionate about music. All of my family members had played an instrument at some point and had an appreciation for higher forms of music. My parents always […]

Hometown: Harleysville, PA BA in Architecture 2025 How did you first get interested in architecture? I first got interested in architecture when I was little because I liked to look at houses and see how differently each one was set up. Once I got to high school, that is when I really got interested, especially when […]